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City Votes to Make Landlords Pay Renters’ Past Due Bills

Monday, September 19, 2022, marked another entry in the Twin Falls city council meeting schedule and was another demonstration of how this council routinely circumvents laws meant to protect citizens and overrides the desires of the governed.  Socialism Alive & Well in Twin Falls You may recall from last week’s meeting recap that the council […]

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How Much Local Support is there for Pride?

For those of you too busy with life to have noticed, last week marked a significant milestone in Idaho’s decline to Californiadom. Boise’s Pride Festival gained national attention by joining the depravity and moral bankruptcy of liberal culture in the west to encourage the sexual exploitation of children. The festival coordinators hosted a child drag […]

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Alexandra Caval to Replace Barigar on Twin Falls City Council

This week’s city council meeting was a return to form for the elected leaders of Twin Falls: government spending, appointing morally compromised officials, and ignoring the will of the people they serve.

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Twin Falls City Council Candidates

If this is the best Twin Falls has to offer for a seat on our city council, we are well and truly in a helpless state. The candidates interviewed on Monday night presented nothing but big government ideology, nanny state solutions to problems that citizens should be able to solve for themselves, and a lack of deep thinking on the largest issues we face as a city (namely growth and government spending).

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City Council Continues to Increase Fees, Agree to Budget Increases

True to form, city council overspends budgets, takes federal mon & increases fees

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CDBG Local News Twin Falls City Council

Twin Falls City Council Spends and Bloats the City (again)

For now the new boss is much like the old boss when it comes to the Twin Falls city council: globalism, right here in little old Twin Falls.

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Police Department Ranks Grow & Council Takes More Fed Dollars

Police chief Kingsbury presented promotions and inductions into the ranks and the council approved the use of more C.A.R.E.S. dollars for radios for the local dispatch center.

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Small business turned down, airport gets additional $30,000

City council votes to approve MORE C.A.R.E.S dollars in Twin Falls while rejecting the request of local business to improve our regional airport.

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Your Impact Fees just increased by 100+%

In the end, the city council voted unanimously to increase building fees by over 100%.

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City Council Meeting Cancelled

Twin Falls city council meeting was cancelled on Monday due to absence of city manager & assistant city manager.

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Fire Department Focus

The Twin Falls Fire Department will buy a new fire truck that will cost us (the Twin Falls taxpayers) an extra $750,000, and will be bought as part of a “cooperative purchase agreement” (more on that in a forth coming article) which costs more and ties the purchase to more layers of government.

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City Council Amends 2020-2021 budget +$15,000,000

Monday’s city council meeting started with public proclamations for Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness month and adult education and family literacy week. Shawn Barigar and Vice Mayor Ruth Pierce were absent from the meeting. The lead ESL (English as a Second Language) instructor from the College of Southern Idaho (CSI) accepted the adult literacy proclamation and […]

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City Council votes to move forward with large fee increases

Twin Falls City Council just voted to fast-track an over 100% increase on impact fees for new home builders.

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Conservative Commentary Idaho State News

Selective Libertarianism & How to Fight it

Is it just me, or are many of the “conservative Republican” lawmakers acting an awful lot like liberal Democrats?

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Time for New Federal Senators in Idaho

The “infrastructure” bill should have been roundly rejected by all the Senate Republicans. Instead, both of the senators from Idaho voted to advance the bill.