Warm Springs Avenue

Last Updated on August 16, 2020 (from the 2012 Boise 360 Blog archive)   Warm Springs Avenue…..you have to say it with clenched teeth.   Sort of like if you had enough money to dine at Berryhill every meal.   Which if you did, you would say that with the same inflection.   Anyways, as…

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Sorry Watson…

Last Updated on August 16, 2020 (from the 2012 Boise 360 Blog archive)   Teaching took a hit this week in Idaho.   Despite overwhelming disapproval by teachers and parents, the so-called Luna Plan for education passed the Idaho Senate Education Committee and will most certainly get through the full Senate and the House when…

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Ethnic Landmarks in Boise

Last Updated on August 16, 2020 (from the 2013 Boise 360 Blog archive) Ethnic Landmarks in Boise   A couple of weeks ago, we had one of our last seminars in the Teaching American History Grant program in which many Boise School District U.S. History teachers are participating.   One of the themes of the…

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The Central Addition

Last Updated on August 16, 2020 (from the 2013 Boise 360 Blog archive)   Joni Mitchell once sang “They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.” With that song stuck in my head, I accompanied more than twenty other interested Boise citizens on Preservation Idaho’s first Arch Walk of the 2011 summer season around…

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