Kuwaiti sand rolling this week

Grandview dump got 800,000 tons of waste in ‘07 from 37 states. Boise-based American Ecology, US Ecology’s parent company, reported revenue last year of $165.5 million with gross profit of $45.5 million. Sewell in the Statesman.

Canyon GOP candidates scoff at CO2

At least four Canyon County Republican Legislative candidates believe that trees and alfalfa benefit from rising CO2 levels and some are happy to provide it to them in the form of auto exhaust.

PaleoMedia.org’s Hot 10 primary races

With about six weeks to go until Idaho’s Primary Elections, PaleoMedia.org is picking the 10 hottest races across the state. We will be covering these races here and on the forums, so jump in and tell us what’s happening in your neighborhood.

Craig to write energy book

Idaho Sen. Larry Craig recently revealed that he plans to write a book about the nation’s energy future after he leaves the Senate. Craig hinted at the book recently during a stop in American Falls, Idaho.

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Otter heading to Mexico

Gov. C. L. “Butch” Otter is traveling to Mexico in two weeks with representatives from 16 Idaho companies. But the early onset Montezuma’s Revenge came from the Capitol Annex.

Flip floppers in the press pit

I would say that standing in our monkey suits surrounded by the body we cover and reciting a loyalty oath that has been gerrymandered into a Christian prayer is no way to start the day in a fair and balanced manner.

How’s that for burying the lead?

Pay to play: The social lives of pols

They’re not just talking baseball nightly at the smoking table at Leku Ona.

One afternoon last week Clete Edmunson, a former legislator who runs damage control on education for the governor’s office, told Unda’ the Rotunda that working the Legislature is all work, no play.

“Most of them don’t do anything after hours,” Edmunson said.

Yeah, right…

Local control depends on who’s at the controls

BOISE – Challis Rep. Lenore Hardy Barrett heads up the House Local Government Committee. The fact that its only met six times this year could indicate that Barrett believes in leaving cities and counties alone.

Obama’s Race in the West

In January the black poet Nikki Giovanni came to Boise.

She was asked what Martin Luther King Jr. would do in 2008. Would he march on Washington? Protest the war in Iraq?

Would he vote for Obama?

“How the hell would I know?” Giovanni quipped…