News And Notes From Meridian, Idaho
Being that I actually live in this town where almost nothing happens (except new houses being built -- the city's population has gone from 35K to over 60K since 2000), I figured I should post about what little does happen. (Please note that I'm happy that nothing really happens here -- I like it that way.)
1) I went to the homecoming game last night at Mountain View High School (MV beat Boise HS 40-7), and saw... streakers! Three of 'em. Right in the middle of the introductions of Homecoming royalty. Looked to be about 17- or 18-year old boys. One of them fell on his butt (it was raining) and lost his sock. The PA announcer said something like, "Pay no attention to those idiots." I laughed my fool head off.
2) We have a election coming up for mayor, featuring the incumbent, Tammy de Weerd, against a challenger, James Holtzclaw. The current Mayor has a really big forehead that looks kinda frightening, and the challenger is a 10 year Air Force veteran whose website bio says that "(w)hile serving in the Air Force, I earned a medal for Outstanding Service, as well as a degree in Science". Huh? What kind of medal? Was it a Good Conduct Medal? If so, why only one? And where do you get a "degree in Science"? I'm not sure who I'm gonna vote for, since the current Mayor seems only interested in granting building permits to everyone with a bank loan, and the challenger doesn't come right out and say he's going to stop further new home construction. (As you can guess, I'm one of those people who thinks that I'm the last person who should be allowed to move into a growing city; in my defense, I bought an existing house.) The incumbent is going to win anyway, so I'll probably end up voting for the other guy just to let the Mayor know I'm not happy with what's going on. I could go to meetings, I know, but there's this really good TV show on and... you get the picture.
3) There are two other fairly well-known (for Idaho) bloggers that I've found who write from Meridian, over at Free in Idaho and at the website of Marv Hagedorn, one of my state representatives -- he's also a retired Navy officer. (Also, I think at least some of the posters over at girlfriday live here.) If anyone knows any other Meridian bloggers, I'd sure like to hear about them.
4) I've got two inflatables up in my yard already for Halloween, including an 8 ft. tall haunted pirate ship. I love gaudy holiday lawn art.
posted by Bubblehead at 10:44 PM
5 Comments:
Careful Joel, Holtzclaw is a Realtor... he's not going to be a "no growth" candidate either ;-)
I don't know about her politics, but Tammy is a true Meridian booster in the old-time sense. She goes to every event around town, makes herself available way more than I've ever seen a politician do. I saw her at the Lions' Rodeo a couple weeks back.
I'll have to look for your pirate ship (and thanks for the link)
10/14/2007 7:06 AM
Click on your profile link, thank click on Meridian, and blogspot will bring up 266 folks who list Meridian in their profile, many of whom apparently are blogging from Meridian.
10/14/2007 8:26 AM
Jeez. "then click" not "thank click".
10/14/2007 8:28 AM
Alan,
I did that a while back, and something like 9 of the first 10 blogs I clicked on had last posted sometime in 2005.
10/14/2007 11:37 AM
Two of our bloggers live in Meridian. Remember when it was a small town?
And I'd go Tami DW all the way. Look how supportive she's been of groups like The New Heritage Theatre Company when Boise's pansy mayor did everything in his power to screw them.
10/15/2007 3:06 PM
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