Sharon Fisher This year it seems like it’s been one dam issue after another. (Yes, we’re 12.) In fact, this issue has not just one but two dam articles. One is about the plan to make Anderson Ranch Dam six feet taller so that it can store more water, and the other is the Cat Creek project, which is intended to provide power through pumped storage, solar and wind facilities. Both of those articles were written by our intrepid reporter Catie Clark. Both articles are also part of our Focus section this week on Construction, always one of our most popular topics. Other articles in that section this week include the rental space that is being advertised for lease as part of the Idaho Wheat Commission’s new building in downtown Boise, even though the building itself hasn’t been built yet, also written by Catie. There’s also a new wing for the Portneuf Medical Center. We’ve been following the saga of the Expo Idaho facility for some time, and our cover story this week is th
The biggest announcement from the community kickoff hybrid event held on May 26 was the name of Boise Startup Week has been changed to Boise Entrepreneur Week.
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.