So, the grand plans for McEuen Park will be rolled out to the public at a meeting at North Idaho College Thursday evening (Student Union Building, Coeur d’Alene Room, 6pm). We will be acutely interested to see how the plans will be received. The controversial proposal eliminates most of the surface parking area and boat launch, eliminates the ball fields, and may be expensive to more »
As required by the Clean Water Act, the Department of Environmental Quality has just issued its draft “Integrated Report” on the state of water quality in the State of Idaho. The utter failure of Idaho to do necessary water quality monitoring is probably the most glaring finding. According to the draft report, of 5747 distinct waterways in Idaho, 2108 have insufficient data to determine the more »
As uncomfortable as we are using the word “finish” in the same sentence as “comp plan,” we think the Kootenai County Commissioners are approaching the big decisions they have been putting off for almost a year now. At the conclusion of their most recent deliberations meeting last week, the Commissioners had only a page-and-a-half left to do in their line-by-line editing of the controversial land more »
Even as we refine our on-line presence (We’re on Twitter! And Facebook!) , we try not to get too caught up in click-counting here at KEA 2.0. Just as lawn signs are not a good predictor of election day outcomes, clicks are not necessarily a good indicator of commitment. Still, we were fascinated as to why our blog’s most popular post, by far, was the more »
