Boise State men’s basketball sophomore guard/forward Anthony Drmic leads the Mountain West with 18.5 points per game in 13 conference games, shooting 43.7 percent. He has scored 77 points in his last three games, with 65 of those points coming…
Monthly Archives: February 2013
Amazing bird watching near Fort Boise WMA
The scene is totally breathtaking. Hundreds and hundreds of snow geese are flying the skies over the Parma area and it looks like a blizzard of geese. If you’ve never seen large flocks of snows, this is the time of…
Posted in Into the Outdoors
UPDATED — Ticket alert: Upcoming Boise concerts and events that go on sale Friday and Saturday
Official Tiesto College Tour Afterparty w/Quintino, Alvaro and Rubicon 7: 11 p.m. March 8, Powerhouse Event Center, Boise. $20 general, $35 VIP. Ticketfly. On sale at 6 p.m. March 1 The Dillinger Escape Plan: 8 p.m. May 16, Knitting Factory,…
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Posted in Words & Deeds
Posted in Words & Deeds
Lawmakers seek to cut climate, endangered species out of state water plan
References to climate variability, minimum streams flows to helped endangered salmon and other measures that grew out of the 2004 Nez Perce Agreement were cut from the Idaho State Water Plan by a panel led by House Resources and Conservation…
Posted in Letters from the West
Biden lauds Idaho Sen. Crapo after passage of Violence Against Women Act
Thursday morning’s House passage of the reauthorization of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act sent the bill to President Obama on a 286-138 vote. Idaho’s GOP congressmen split. Second District Rep. Mike Simpson voted for Senate Bill 47, while 1st…
Have you checked out Nampa’s new city Web site?
The new Web site is more user friendly and offers residents many options for receiving notifications / alerts about upcoming meetings, activities. There are four large “buttons” on the right side of the city Web site that are portals into much…
Posted in Our Towns
It’s official: the Idaho Legislature is pro-cursive
Mark it down. Idaho’s cursive writing resolution is on the books. After brief debate — or, shall we say, cursory debate? — the Senate approved House Concurrent Resolution 3, which requests that the State Board of Education write rules to require cursive…
Posted in The EDge
The saga of a student and a salamander
One of Wednesday’s big Statehouse newsmakers was neither a governor nor a grizzled legislator nor a handsomely compensated lobbyist. She was Ilah Hickman, a White Pine Elementary School sixth-grader who wowed the House State Affairs Committee with her case for designating the Idaho…
Posted in The EDge
Idahoan smashes Iditarod bike race record
What is it about Idaho bikers that makes them enjoy suffer fests? I wish I knew the answer and could bum a few sips of what’s in their water bottles. Victor mountain biker and all-around bad ass Jay Petervary of…
Posted in Into the Outdoors
