For the first time, Tokyo Electric Power Company says strontium 90 is contaminating ground water, and the Pacific Ocean.
Water samples that were taken on 16 and 18 May, 2011, are positive for strontium. Sample testing takes three weeks for results.
Three ocean inlets were tested on 16 May. The lowest reading was 53 times safe […] Continue Reading…
Property taxes/fees, where I live in Bannock county, have gone up year after year, and there’s been no improvement in services, especially grade school education.
The last time I complained to the county assessor’s office (when my three kids were attending Pocatello High School) the employee told me to blame school district 25. The employee […] Continue Reading…
What’s really scarey about the following list, is that there are a lot of parents who actually agree with increased “security” measures in schools.
1: Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has announced that school officials can search the cell phones and laptops of public school students if there are “reasonable grounds for suspecting that […] Continue Reading…
The following list is not necessarily blaming Obama for the economic problems, it’s just showing how things have gotten worse since he became President.
1: In January 2009, the official U.S. unemployment rate was 7.6 percent. Today it is 9.1 percent.
2: When Barack Obama took office, the number of “long-term unemployed” in […] Continue Reading…
1: According to The New York Post, nearly all of the major Wall Street banks are planning huge layoffs….
“Barclays Capital, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley currently are among those financial institutions either weighing staff cuts or actually paring payroll.”
2: A new CNBC […] Continue Reading…
“They are unwelcome in Iraq from now on. Their demand to conduct an investigation into the raid is categorically unacceptable and has upset Iraq.”-Ali Al-Dabbagh, Iraqi government spokesman
The U.S. Congressional delegation in Iraq has really put their feet in the their mouths, by showing just how arrogant U.S. officials are when it comes to […] Continue Reading…
It’s June 11, and potato farmers in Ashton, and Driggs, Idaho, have been hoping for warmer, dryer weather. They can’t plant potatoes in wet, cold ground: “This season has been especially hard because every time we are about to get into the fields for a couple days it rains us out. It takes […] Continue Reading…
“Every time we tried to schedule something, we had a storm come through. With the temperature and the moisture, you just can’t do it.”-James Orner, Idaho Transportation Department
Temperatures are finally warming up in eastern Idaho, and ITD officials hope to get ongoing road construction finished, and start new ones.
But just as the […] Continue Reading…
According to Smart Politics at the University of Minnesota, President Barack Obama has the worst veto record since President James Garfield in 1881.
Obama has vetoed only two bills since becoming President; a stopgap appropriations bill on December 30, 2009, and a housing foreclosure bill on October 7, 2010.
So it looks like […] Continue Reading…
“The whole thing is a big scandal. People were very unsettled. Every day something different was announced. Now I hear on the radio that it was the sprouts. But people were even buying less fruit. That is simply insane.’’ Riza Cetinkaya, Berlin grocer who says sales have dropped 70%
Out of frustration […] Continue Reading…