this is the result of a project that my friend Jonathan Womack created. he sent out ~ 8 pages of black & white copies of cut-out pieces of graphic novel / comic-style pictures he liked. he asked that we create something with them. i made this recipe book, which is pretty much all you need to know about “the war on terror”. build in 2003/4
That's right, the guy with the KILL sign is our very own Representative Mike Simpson. Nice going Mike, way to represent Idaho in the best light possible. Of course, both Minnick and Simpson voted NO on the bill . . . more info
There was a scuffle on Thursday that featured Wayne Hammond, Budget Director of the State of Idaho, shuffling off the idea that Bike Lanes were anything more than a North-End dream. The meeting was featured in the Twitter Feed of Idaho Reports Thanh Tan, and the Boise Weekly's CityDesk editor Nathaniel Hoffman. Sen. LeFavour wrote a great piece about it, and there are some excellent comments from readers.
Since that time, Idaho Reports taped it's weekly show, which featured Wayne Hammond! Betsy Russel asks "If the 'enhancement' fund is not going to be spent on bike paths, it's going to be spent on landscaping."
via Buddy Stone on Flickr
on background: On Fairview Ave near Maple Grove. The Freedom From Religion Foundation, with more than 13,000 members, is the largest association of freethinkers (atheists and agnostics) in the United States. FFRF has been working since 1978 to promote freethought and to keep state and church separate.
Enormous Undulating
brought to you by Jim Risch, US Senator from Idaho
Sen Risch hopes by Thanksgiving, we'll be able to identify improvement with either the "enormous" spending package or the vagaries of an "undulating" world economy, or some other way - like with better policy - he said today in his first speech in the Senate, where they were debating the Stimulus Package. It passed, 61-36.
Afterward, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell gives him some love, as does Sen. Max Baucus - Democratic Senator from Montana. Baucus explains that although he strongly disagrees with Risch, he hopes to work together in the future on Western Issues.
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ABOUT THE IMAGE: One of Santiago Calatrava's finest works is the Bodegas Ysios in Laguardia, Alva, Spain. Its undulating roof and silvery
edges are equisitely articulated.
from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
WASHINGTON - Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo will for the third time head the team that parcels out two-year committee assignments to fellow
Republican senators. via The Idaho Statesman
Interesting, only one comment:
rita wrote on November, 20 6:24 PM:
So how many times / different ways are you going to post the same story?
Rita, maybe the point is that no one seems to care about the power that Crapo now holds. During a Republican "shake-up", where all the seats are being re-shuffled (or not) as the party re-thinks itself, our remaining Idaho Senator will be "the decider" for who gets to appoint the Minority Chair on each of these Committees.
We will keep and eye out for any announcements so we can all better understand who or what will be leading the republican party going forward. or will it be just the same? only time will tell.
MIKE CRAPO, a famous mormon in politics
photo via buddy stone's fickr
what happens in washington
photo via idahohum