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The Treasure Valley:

• Sadly, Downtown Nampa’s Market Limone has closed up shop. It was a really great place while it lasted, one my wife and I enjoyed frequently. I guess this means no more bottomless Pimm’s Cups on the sidewalk during the summer.

• Idaho Press Tribune story on the closing of the the Market. Market Limone was also my source for Boise’s Le Cafe De Paris breads, I’ll really miss having their stuff in Nampa.
• Vickie Holbrook: Why did Market Limone story make Page 1?
• City takes applications for Brush-Up Nampa.
• BSU: ‘How many years…before we get a chance?’ Hey, I like the Broncos as much as the next Treasure Valley non-Vandal, but let’s face it, the Broncos don’t exactly play that many tough teams.
• Meridian students, parents protest teacher’s absence with a sit-in. This story is becoming a great learning experience in civil disobedience and 1st Amendment rights for the kids.
• Uncle Boise: The Unofficial Dance Club of Boise. Check it out for a good laugh.
• Live in Mountain Home or willing to relocate? Got $250,000 sittin’ around? Well, this is for you then.
• Don’t want to move to Mountain Home (I hear yas), well, what about Emida?
• Millions set aside for rehabilitating foreclosed homes in Canyon County. Good thing too, Canyon County is going to need it. I will say that there were 3 foreclosures in my subdivision, two have just been moved into to in the last month. Hopefully a good sign.
• David Wells, a longtime BSU band director, has died. I met Mr. Wells once, really a great guy who did a lot for a lot of people.
• Boise Record Exchange: Top 25 Sellers of Last Week (Ending 05.03.09).
• Idaho Statesman: Recycling plan enables people to save time and money.
• Boise airport will close economy parking lot. A replacement won’t open until the summer of 2010, and shuttle service will be suspended until then.

Idaho politics:

• Probably one of the best reads to date on what is behind the clash between the Governor and the House and it ain’t gas taxes.
• Here is a great piece from John Miller on the back story as well.
• Guv: ‘We’ll be here ‘til it’s resolved’.
• Nonini: ‘Not going to put up with that’. Not only does Bob Nonini have no business chairing the House Education Committee it sounds like he has no business even being in Idaho’s Legislature.
• Randy Stapilus: The Great Nonini.
• Kent Marmon: Idaho has plenty of money for roads already. lol, it’s a media conspiracy with the Guv. I love Libertarians, bless their little hearts, they’re in the right place, but sometimes the mind just doesn’t follow.
• Speaking of Libertarians: Libertarians can restore America to its constitutional principles.
• According to Bryan Fischer it’s all about genitals!
• Boise teabaggers: “Spreading the wealth = thieft”. What’s that about them being “left behind” again?
• Second tea party rally urges opposition of Gov. Otter’s fuel tax proposal.
• IdaBlue: Republican standoff.

Booze:

• Beer, what’s it all about anyway? Great read if you’re a beer drinker — sometimes the only thing that matters is how it makes you feel.
• Going Green For Beer: Poor Mass Transit In The US Makes Alcohol More Dangerous. I love being in cities where there is mass transit, makes imbibing around town much more safer. I loved South Korea because it was all buses, subways and taxis, it made going out easy and made it easy and provided a means to safely get home.
• Will Beer Be the Next Casualty of the Crisis? The downturn could hurt high-end brewers.
• Wine industry helps Idaho’s economy.
• See, another reason to join Twitter; check out the Boise Beer Poet and his 140 character beer reviews.

Grub:

• Turbaconducken (Turducken Wrapped in Bacon). Sweet Jesus, is there anything people aren’t willing to wrap in bacon?
• Crock Pot Vietnamese Pho (Beef Noodle Soup).
• Pea and Mint Risotto.
• Denis Leary Talks Bacon.
• Vegan Crab Cakes.
• How to store coffee. I freeze, I get the big container of Folgers from Costco, I’m not picky at home.
• The 99 Cent Chef: A Month of Breakfast - Huevos Rancheros.