AltWeeklies Wire
Owyhees Initiative Unites Warring Factionsnew
An unlikely alliance has put aside egos and issues to pen legislation that will permanently protect the Owyhee canyonlands, while addressing the needs of ranchers, conservationists and recreationists.
Boise Weekly |
Deanna Darr |
02-12-2009 |
Environment
Idaho ICE Raid Sparks Dialoguenew
In the wake of an immigration raid at a Nampa, Idaho factory, a Latina group sits down to enchiladas with ICE.
Boise Weekly |
Nathaniel Hoffman |
12-10-2008 |
Immigration
Legislating Energy Affordability in Idahonew
While utilities in surrounding states fund programs to help the poor pay their power bills, in Idaho that is considered discriminatory. One group of advocates for low-income people aims to change that and utility regulators are warming to the idea.
Boise Weekly |
Nathaniel Hoffman |
12-10-2008 |
Economy
Chips of Wrath: Unemployment Rising Before the Crisisnew
In the face of near uniform economic analysis from the nation's mainstream media, we set out to find a big picture economist willing to buck conventional wisdom: the economic downturn is a mere blip on the capitalist EKG monitor.
Boise Weekly |
Nathaniel Hoffman |
11-27-2008 |
Economy
From Bank Crisis to Food Crisisnew
According to former agricultural banker Ben Gisin, whose magazine Touch the Soil is chronicling the local foods movement across the nation, the housing-cum-banking crisis foreshadows and ever deeper, looming global catastrophe: massive food shortages.
Boise Weekly |
Tim Andreae |
11-14-2008 |
Economy
Golf Course Mowers to Challenge Noise Regulations in Idahonew
Noise complaints at an exclusive Boise golf course lead to a Constitutional challenge of the county noise ordinance.
Boise Weekly |
Nathaniel Hoffman |
11-05-2008 |
Policy Issues
Condom Shop Offer Too Hot for Boise Statenew
Boise State University bookstore has condom shop coupon removed from coupon book after complaints.
Boise Weekly |
Nathaniel Hoffman |
09-10-2008 |
Sex
Boise Streetcar Plans Trump State Transit Inactionnew
Boise is joining the medium-sized city streetcar boom with plans to put in a short line downtown in the next four or five years.
Boise Weekly |
Nathaniel Hoffman |
08-13-2008 |
Transportation
Children of the Undocumented Find Themselves in the Cracks of Int'l Lawnew
Mention the word "immigration" and you feel a tremor as the ideological split creates a chasm, widened by raw emotions. But there are those who end up at the bottom of that chasm through no fault of their own. They are children, United States citizens, who live with the very real possibility of being separated from their parents who are here illegally.
Boise Weekly |
Deanna Darr |
08-01-2008 |
Immigration
Gun Law Loopholes Render Gun Control Pointless in Many Statesnew
Idaho is one of them. The state has no idea how many mentally ill are out there armed.
Boise Weekly |
Nathaniel Hoffman |
07-22-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Massacre in Moscow, Idaho: Part IInew
The second part of a two-part series examining a courthouse shooting in Moscow, Idaho and the factors that led to the massacre.
Boise Weekly |
Nathaniel Hoffman |
07-22-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Massacre in Moscow, Idahonew
A criminal profile of Jason Hamilton, a townie who launched a mass shooting in the college town of Moscow, Idaho in May 2007. First of two parts.
Boise Weekly |
Nathaniel Hoffman |
07-10-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice, Jason Hamilton
Global Mushroom Culture Hits Idaho Forestnew
An unusually fecund mushrooming season has filled the Idaho forest with an international rainbow gathering of commercial morel pickers who step slowly through the trees filling buckets with the valuable commodity.
Boise Weekly |
Nathaniel Hoffman |
06-27-2008 |
Environment
Blogging for Peace in the Middle Eastnew
Peace Man is the Palestinian half of a two-man blogging team in the Middle East. While Peace Man lives in a refugee camp in the blockaded Gaza Strip, his counterpart, Hope Man, lives just a few miles and a world away in the Israeli city of Sderot, a city often targeted by Palestinian rocket fire.
Boise Weekly |
Shea Andersen |
05-15-2008 |
International
Paul Rogers' Fight Against Idaho Law, and How it Almost Workednew
He never really planned to get so caught up with meth that it would bring his life to a sudden halt -- he also never planned to change Idaho law. But with a ruling from the Idaho Supreme Court last fall, this unlikely source forced a change in the way drug courts around Idaho are run, adding some much-needed clarity.
Boise Weekly |
Deanna Darr |
05-07-2008 |
Crime & Justice
