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Lindsay Dofelmier

Boise = "Rocky Mountain High Tech"

According to Kiplinger.com Boise is: "Rocky Mountain High Tech":

Urban Idaho Income Growth Slows

According to the Idaho Business Review, Idaho per capita personal income growth in Idaho's five urban* areas was down in 2007.

Per capita income rose to an average of 3.6 percent to $32,838 down from a 5.7 percent jump in 2006.

On the other side of the range in rural Idaho that figure rose 5.6 percent to $28,013.

Does anyone else see a problem with this? If *urban* Idaho expects to draw urbanites from the likes of Seattle, Portland, San Franciso, etc. we have A LOT of work to do. Great recreation and quality of life can only go so far if there aren't jobs that pay enough to pay for that "unparalled" lifestyle. . .

And the icing on the cake - 3 restaurants in the most urban area of Idaho (downtown Boise) have announced their closings in the last 2 weeks. . . OUCH!

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*in Idaho is defined as: Boise Pocatello Idaho Falls Lewiston Coueur d'Alene

Would you trade your car for a bike? Tour de Fat returns to Boise. . .

Tour de Fat

WHAT:

Tour de Fat! The “annual ballyhoo of bikes and beers” pedals into Boise for the seventh straight year.

WHEN:

Saturday, Aug 23 9:00a

WHERE:

Ann Morrison Park 1000 Americana Blvd Boise, ID 83706 (208) 384-4240

Boise Greenbelt Gets a Shout-Out!

Apparently word is spreading about how bad-ass Boise’s parks truly are. In a recent article out of uber-urban Boston, Boise’s Greenbelt got a shout-out as one of the best urban parks in the nation. Bottom Line: the treasures of the Treasure Valley are being discovered. I wonder how long it will be until urban traffic woes make it to our summer river floats (as if they aren’t packed enough on hot summer Sundays): "Breaking news on the Boise River this evening. . . A river-floating traffic jam turned deadly for one couple when their raft collided head-on with a drunk kayaker. Details at 7."