Local Man from American Falls Turns Against Republicans
Good morning, have you read your local paper? Today's small-town American newspaper: The Aberdeen Times and the Power County Press, which share both a website and adjacency to Idaho's Craters of the Moon national monument. Their top story today: Pigeon poo presents perplexing problem for A.F. City Council. Oh yes, Aberdeen's neighbor, American Falls, is in trouble:
An overabundance of pigeons leaving their calling card on buildings and sidewalks in downtown American Falls led to a slightly humorous, but serious discussion at the American Falls City Council meeting Wednesday, April 6.Several citizens voiced their willingness to use their shotguns to help with the pigeon problem on Idaho Street. However, American Falls Chief of Police Brandon Wilkinson vetoed that idea.
Also? There is a noteworthy letter to the editor….
To the editor,
I became so frustrated with the actions of the Republican Party during this last session, that I considered changing my status to that of an Independent. But after reconsideration and the legislature’s overturning of the state’s open primary system, I think I will stay registered as a Republican, so I can vote the “lunatics” out of office.
You can subscribe to the weekly paper for $30 in-state, $35 out-of-state or $27 locally for a year. It's a bargain actually!
Is this the first time you've read the letters page of a small-town newspaper?
Really, Choire, you need to get off your block more often.
In fact, how about a sitcom, in which two enterprising-but-oft-starcrossed editors of a Liberal Left-Leaning blog from Manhattan are, for reasons I'll think up after a few minutes of further woodshedding, plunked down in Pocatello and given the reins to edit the local paper? Plunked in Pocatello? Huh?
@KarenUhOh Like a paper-based version of Doc Holliday/Cars! I like it!
@KarenUhOh The anti-moon episode will be comedy GOLD! Balk could spend the episode organizing a protest against the hunter's moon. The hunters think he's protesting them. Comedy ensues! Also drinking!
@MParcells Hollywood. Doc Hollywood. The Michael J. Fox character, not the TB-ridden cowboy. Anyway, they Alex and Choire get in a traffic accident, and have to pay the fine by working at the local newspaper. They learn a lot about small town life, friendship, and love in the process.
@KarenUhOh I think you just pitched The Fabulous Beekman Boys?
@deepomega: it does have a Green Acres vibe to it. But there's already one Lisa Douglas dominating the blogosphere, Dahling.
Please, yes. I will take whatever good news is goin'.
It's not really that surprising of a letter. Even in supposedly hard red states, it is not homogeneous.