At first I was irritated that they hung her on the back of the panel so people have to walk around to see her, until I saw her from across the room. The Capitol building is recently refurbished. All the white marble is awesome. I was told that some of it is faux marble, but I could not find anything that looked faux, it all looked real to me.
Last Monday when I was hosting the show, the floor below was full of high school choirs. March is music month. The Idaho legislature passed their version of Wisconsin's collective bargaining limits a week ago and there was protesting in the beginning, but by last week at least the music teachers were back at work directing some nervous and excited students.
Idaho Senate Bill 1108, which restricts collective bargaining and ends continuing contracts for teachers, passed 48-22 with nine Republicans and all 13 Democrats voting no.
Read more: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2011/03/13/1564159/what-happened-last-week-whats.html#ixzz1GUZhsOQM
No reason for the no voters to leave the state, since the Senate would still have a quorum.
The FBI also arrested a fugitive mobster that had been hiding in Idaho as a rancher for 17 years. Now that sounds like Idaho. He was in Marsing, which is less than an hour West of Boise near the border with Oregon.
Yesterday the sun was out all day and it wasn't warm enough to open a window, but I did anyway. Last night there was a spontaneous downpour and big wind, but today the sun is out again and it may get up to 60 degrees! The Idaho weatherman predicts rain every day for the next week, but he has for the last week and it did not happen much.
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