Thursday morning coffee
Two-way streets, bicycle safety, pride parade, Silver City vino and freezer jam…
The Treasure Valley:
- Debate: Is it time to bring two-way streets back to Boise. Cities around the country have made the change to two-way streets, and some business owners think it can only help boost Downtown Boise. Downtown Boise changed to one-way streets in the 1950s to make it easier for cars to pass through town.
- Task force will tackle roads. Transportation funding in Idaho has become one of the state’s biggest taxation issues. And the debate over what to do never seems to end. Gov. Butch Otter will soon assemble a group of officials to continue the discussion about how the state’s residents will pay for Idaho’s roads and transportation infrastructure.
- Idaho Business Review: A potato by any other name. A Boise restaurant has reached an agreement with the Idaho Potato Commission over the name of the business.
- Idaho Statesman readers share gripes, advice and questions about bicycles on roads. Readers weigh in with their gripes, advice and questions about motorists and bicyclists sharing the roads of the Treasure Valley.
- 43rd State Blues: Statesman on Cyclist Safety.
- New West Boise: Practical Tips for Making Bicycle Commuting Safer and Easier. More and more people are making the big move to bicycle commuting and finding out it isn’t that difficult or dangerous to make it to work or school or coffee shop or grocery store, but even more haven’t make the move.
- BW: Might as well, Jump. In writing this week’s news feature on Jack’s Urban Meeting Place, we went for a little lap around the Simplot site, bounded by Front and Myrtle streets on the north and south and Ninth and Eleventh to the east and west.
- Yummy Delights at Emmett’s Cherry Festival. It’s the 75th Anniversary of the Emmett Cherry Festival. Heaven on earth for those who love all things cherry.
- TechBoise: Calling all girls. Thursday Boise launches it’s chapter of Girls in Tech.
- Police bust cyclist who fled with stolen laptop. A Boise man is in custody after fleeing from police on a bicycle this after officers caught him with a stolen computer.
- Idaho Press-Tribune: Judges understand valley crime. Should a visiting judge be able to waltz into a county, hear a case and release a suspect contrary to what is typically done in the local courts?
- Washington Mutual locations convert to Chase branches. Washington Mutual’s 22 Idaho locations, 27 ATMs and 175 employees made the final conversion earlier this month to Chase, which acquired the failed Seattle-based savings bank last fall.
- FameFifteen: Danger! Danger! Tricycle Races and Jack Daniels!
- Hobbyists take hit. Some local gun enthusiasts are heading to the range less often because of more expensive and harder-to-find ammunition. Tony Whitewater of Nampa said the price for a box of .22-caliber ammo has doubled in recent months.
- F-Words: YOUR body – be afraid of it!
- Doin’ it all, Idaho Style: THRIFTY: Hits of the 70s.
Idaho politics:
- Boise’s mayor makes budget recommendations, including increases in sewer fees and parking fines to the City Council. Increased parking fines and sewer fees may be the small prices to pay for ongoing city services at the current level, according to budget recommendations that Mayor David Bieter made.
- Caldwell anti-gay activist will march in gay parade. Although he believes homosexuality is a sin, Caldwell conservative Tom Munds will march in Boise’s gay pride parade this weekend. The 46-year-old activist said he aims to promote his views in a non-confrontational way through his participation in the parade.
- Leader of Boise gay-pride group tells why he’s letting foe of homosexuality into parade. The leader of a Boise gay group explained Wednesday why he is letting an evangelical Christian who opposes homosexuality into the parade this Saturday in Downtown Boise.
- Kevin Richert: GOP would benefit from uncrowded primary.
- Donna Brazile: Flame-throwers are killing today’s Republican Party. What is the GOP these days? If someone says, “I am with the GOP,” what does that mean exactly? (Not really Idaho politics, but it was in the IPT, good enough for me.)
- 43rd State Blues: Minuteman Murders.
Booze:
- Boise Foodie Guild: Silver City Wine Weekend.
- A Good Beer Blog: It’s About The Relative Value of Relative Value.
- Appellation Beer: Balancing nature, tradition and progress in Alaska.
- Review: Dogfish Head Burton Baton.
- Kickass Bottle Design: Samurai Vodka.
- Craft beer: no holy standard.
- What People Drink: Politicians.
Grub:
- AnchorMommy: Curried Tofu Scramble.
- Boise Co-op: Fresh, local produce! Strawberries have now arrived!
- SignOnSanDiego: Wrapped up in bacon. We’re hog wild for this fatty meat, but is the trend more smoke than sizzle? Bacon is awesome, I’ll be the first to agree with that, but the current pumping of it is viral marketing at its best, there is no doubt about that.
- Savory Parmesan Quinoa Cakes.
- Mexican Food for Game Night.
- Slashfood: Tabasco Hottest Chef Competition Wants Your Recipes.
- Recipe: Creamy Lemon Shrimp.
- The 99 Cent Chef: Mexican Mole Chicken.
- The Bitten Word: Freezer Jam. I ♥ freezer jam.
- ‘Wich of the Week: Sardine and Arugula Sandwich.
