According to this article in the Coeur d’Alene Press, Coeur d’Alene School District 271 is limiting comments at public meetings and prohibiting audio  recording of its supposedly public meetings by anyone except “working members of the media.”

We can safely assume “working members of the media” will not include anyone other than those stenographers who willingly and without question push the propaganda from the Hazel and Edie Show.

When the public began to crack the code of corruption in Idaho’s communities, Idaho Attorney General Wasden and his deputy William von Tagen dutifully responded to the demands of their handlers, the Association of Idaho Cities and the Cowles gang, to limit the tools available to the public to hold public officials accountable.  In 2009 they eviscerated the Idaho Open Meeting Law, all the while claiming they were improving it.   The Idaho legislature dutifully nodded its institutional head in compliance.  We should not expect  a challenge to the school district’s decision by AG Wasden any more than we should expect one from Kootenai County Prosecutor Barry McHugh.   This is Idaho — where laws are merely suggestions and tools of intimidation.

Sit down, shut up, and don’t record this (formerly public) meeting!

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The latest home foreclosure figures are out, and as noted in this Idaho Statesman article, we have not escaped.

Run your mouse cursor over the various counties shown in dark red in this RealtyTrac map of Idaho foreclosures.  You will see that Kootenai County is third highest in the state, behind only Canyon and Ada counties.  Kootenai county shows 984 foreclosures with 411 homes for sale.

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If you live in Coeur d’Alene and have one of the gray Waste Management garbage carts (shown left), you will soon have one of the blue recycling carts (shown left) dropped in front of your residence.  Both carts are the same size.  The blue cart replaces the much smaller and easier to handle blue recycling bin.   But the City of Coeur d’Alene and Waste Management are misleading residents by omission in their information about the switch to the carts.  You are not being told you do not have to accept this blue cart.  That was first pointed out in this letter to the editor of a local newspaper. (more…)

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In a 20-page memorandum decision delivered via fax on Tuesday, Judge Charles Hosack confirmed “…the election result of Mike Kennedy’s election to Seat #2 on the City Council for the City of Coeur d’Alene in the November 3, 2009, Municipal election.”

Here is Judge Hosack’s memorandum decision.

Here is attorney Starr Kelso’s press release on behalf of Jim Brannon.