Yet again we see our tax dollars at work. NIC has now hired it’s own Boise lobbyist–not surprisingly the same lobbyist who’s been working for LCDC. John Martin, new spokesperson for NIC said, “We just felt that we needed to do a better job of making sure all the legislators, and not just our 15 from North Idaho, know our story.” The cost of $12,000 for 6 months may not seem like much, but it would pay a kid’s college tuition.
You can read more about it on Betsy Russell’s blog, Eye on Boise, here: http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/boise
Nothing is worse than a fishy smell, especially when it comes from a water district. In this case, it’s the North Kootenai Water Sewer District that from the looks of things appears to be more sewer than water.
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The City’s Pulse Newsletter, By Mary Souza
Idaho is a right to work state. People often believe that right to work is bad; that it bans all unions and keeps wages low, but that is not the case.Right to work does not keep unions out. It does not set wage limits. It gives every worker the freedom to join a union or not join, and their job cannot be taken away from them, whatever their decision about membership. (more…)
Who to believe on the whole subject of climate change and its causes? Are we warming or cooling? Is it man-made or nature’s cycle? Yesterday I learned that the Cap and Trade system proposed to regulate carbon emissions will create a 2 TRILLION dollar industry…just in trading the rights to put carbon dioxide into the air.
Doesn’t Al Gore own a company that will “facilitate” these carbon trades? Any other comments, ideas?
Here is a summary of the LCDC’s property tax revenue for its entire existence. These figures were obtained from a public records request from Kootenai County:
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