Septmenber 14, a man who sued a corporate run Idaho prison, known as “Gladiator School”, for extreme violence and medical neglect, has reached a settlement with Corrections Corporation of America.
CCA is the largest corporate prison operation in the United States, and also has the worst reputation.
Dozens of other inmates across the U.S. are also […] Continue Reading…
September 15, Pocatello, Idaho, to be hit by latest USPS closings. Local postal workers told me that the Gateway distribution center, on Flandro Road in Pocatello, could be part of the surprise announcement made by U.S. Postal Service officials today.
This would mean all east Idaho mail would be shipped off to Salt Lake City, […] Continue Reading…
“Even if the budget stays the same, the levy is going to go up to compensate for the decline in value of your property.”- Chris Rich, Ada County Clerk
Ada County, Idaho, just raised their property tax rates, even though property values are down.
In fact property values dropped 42% since 2006. But county […] Continue Reading…
A ProPublica report shows more than 1,000 Idaho doctors were paid by 12 drug companies, to the tune of more than $2 million within the last year. The Idaho Board of Medicine sees no harm in it.
Some of those payments were in the form of free meals (a Boise doctor got $607 worth) in […] Continue Reading…
Earlier this year Netflix tested internet connection speeds in several countries, the United States sucked!
Apparently Netflix ranked the U.S. at 32. Countries like Canada did much better.
The thing is that much faster connection speeds are available in the United States, it’s just that most people can’t pay the outrageous fees. Also, most internet service […] Continue Reading…
“We have a guy here who was dropped into remote, isolated areas of Iraq to set up their telecommunications systems. He told me, ‘We had better communications in Iraq than you have in Central Idaho.’ ”-Christine L. Frei, Clearwater Economic Development Association
A recent survey listed Idaho with the slowest internet service. Now a new […] Continue Reading…
“TB is an old disease that never went away, and now it is evolving with a vengeance.”-Zsuzsanna Jakab, UNWHO
The United Nations World Health Organization is warning European countries to be alert against the extensively-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), and multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).
Estimates show 15 of the 27 countries with the highest burden […] Continue Reading…
“Since the democratic transition in Spain, we have not seen such a hard attack on social services and essential public services. This is an attack by Madrid’s regional government against employment and public education.”-Cayo Lara
Spain’s attempts to pay down its debt has seen huge cuts to education spending, at least 13,000 […] Continue Reading…
September 15, scores of protesters hurled smoke bombs and other objects, even a cow’s lung, at the police.
The riots took place outside the Italian Parliament. Italian politicians are trying to come up with a new debt reduction plan. The plan will be similar to the Greek plan, meaning Italian taxpayers, and the unemployed are […] Continue Reading…
“We came to Syria to express our support and solidarity with the Syrian people, and to express our resentment of the media war against Syria.”- Temir Porras, Deputy Foreign Minister of Venezuela
The South American country, who is a major oil supplier to the east coast of the U.S., said they support […] Continue Reading…