You had to connect the dots yourself with two stories in today's paper: one about Canyon County paying the ACLU $190,000, and the other about the the County shipping some of its inmates off to other jails, now including Gem, Payette, Elmore, and Washington Counties and [...]
We don't know whether 2C drivers are really less capable than those who buy their license plates elsewhere, but we do know that meme is sticky, and can produce entertaining lore as it reinforces the stereotype.
It is not open' [...]
Instead of asking Canyon voters to pony up for a new jail, we would suggest that Sheriff Chris Smith follow his own advice and go for a regional jail somewhere near the Ada-Canyon county line.
Smith is an advocate of regional jails and wrote an article [...]
Tuesday’s local election results sent a strong message from voters: NOBODY REALLY CARES!
Turnout for Boise was 17% of registered voters–just about what all the experts had predicted. Throughout the Valley incumbents were returned to office and the only close call was the defeat of the Canyon County Jail bond which [...]
For a decade, Steve and Scott Ethington have been delighting Idahoans by filling the fall air with ghoulish terror at The Haunted World in Caldwell. This year, however, the businessmen fear for their own survival because Canyon County has decided to go into the horror business, too, with [...]
It is disappointing — and comical — to listen to Canyon County commissioners balk and squawk and try to wangle their way out of setting up vehicle emissions testing.
And every bit as refreshing to hear a number of Nampa city candidates take a level-headed and solutions-based approach to the same [...]
