tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post3625053083098033086..comments2024-03-19T07:48:54.021-06:00Comments on Gus Van Horn: $64 Billion Ain't the Half of ItGus Van Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-54205595417463975222017-03-27T12:32:54.018-06:002017-03-27T12:32:54.018-06:00C.,
I am shocked at myself for being surprised th...C.,<br /><br />I am shocked at myself for being surprised that this is going on in Idaho ("of all places"): I know better. I am old enough to remember when recycling was new. Now it's everywhere, even including a rural Mississippi, where I go to visit relatives from time to time.<br /><br />So long as people take things like this lying down, California will remain the trend-setting state it is.<br /><br />Gus Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-38764364999500683532017-03-27T11:55:37.365-06:002017-03-27T11:55:37.365-06:00Hi Gus,
Our capital city is plagued by a mayor an...Hi Gus,<br /><br />Our capital city is plagued by a mayor and his coterie of blue-stater cronies that have expressed a desire to turn Boise in Portland. Geez, if you love Portland so much, why not just move there?<br /><br />Almost on an annual basis, he floats either a light rail project or a downtown trolley loop. All the big corporations think it's a great idea - but only so long as it is taxpayer money being spent. They certainly won't pony up the cost themselves. <br /><br />In addition, he has reduced motorized vehicle lanes by 1/3 to help his beloved bicyclist cronies. I've seen the numbers. Downtown Boise has 35,000 cars daily and 500 bicycles. And he gives 30% of the available roadspace to 1/70th of the transit vehicles?<br /><br />For a relatively small town, Boise has some incredible traffic issues. Crony thinking - do I really need to point out he's a Democrat? - is a large part of that. <br /><br />As far as California is concerned; there was a movement in the 1970s to divert Idaho water to that state. There was a saying that went the rounds; "Flush your toilets, California needs the water". <br /><br />I believe there was a pilot project outside of San Jose back in the 70s where a Quaternary sewage treatment - the final stage being a marsh of water hyacinths - that would produce cleaner water than the city's main potable water inputs. I've not heard since whatever became of it. But I think that the easiest way to fix the water shortage - given their feast or famine climate - would be to put floating barriers that could be expanded in radius at will beyond the mouths of the rivers and retain the rainwater in the good years. Low cost, particularly as compared to upstream reservoirs, and flexible as well. One entire bay of the Great Salt Lake has returned to freshwater because a Union Pacific causeway segregated it from the rest of the salt water. No reason they couldn't do that in CA. Except for the 'viro wackos of course. <br /><br />c andrewAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com