A note from the editor By: Sharon Fisher February 26, 2021 Comments Off on A note from the editor
Sharon Fisher
One of the things we joke about here is how “development” can mean two different things, depending on what you’re talking about. It could mean either constructing a building, developing technology such as software.
This week, “development” means both.
On the building side, this week we’re covering the Idaho Building Owners and Managers Association symposium. Like most events these days, it was largely virtual, but it also featured (socially distanced) vendor booths and the usual array of tchotchkes. It was a great reminder that, one of these days, we might actually be back to normal.
Dozens of local business leaders signed on to a letter to Boise and Idaho’s political leaders decrying recent vandalism at the Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial.
An unidentified person or group placed nine stickers on the memorial with a swastika and the words “we are everywhere” sometime between late December 7th and early December 8th. The stickers were promptly removed, and community members quickly showed up to place flowers, signs saying “love is everywhere” and other materials near the statue of Frank at the center of the memorial.
“This kind of attack has no place in our city and the message behind it has no place in our community. We are saddened, angered, and disgusted by the desecration, defamation, and vandalism of the memorial,” the letter said.