FOR THE WEEK OF:
April 5 - April 11, 2000

• Landowners appear to prevail in dispute with commissioners
  Supreme Court orders Blaine County to overhaul subdivision applications
  

• Race for county office
  Eclectic candidates promise a hot contest
  

• School levy campaign gears up
  The election campaign for a proposed $4 million-per-year school facilities improvement project got underway this month
  

• Yellow Lab Cab operations suspended at airport
  A local taxi company has been suspended from operating at the Friedman Memorial Airport stemming from violations of the Hailey airfield’s regulations governing ground transportation services
  

• Blistering digits
  U.S. West offers high-speed ATM data connections
  

• Carey library narrows digital divide
  Carey’s Little Wood District Library, which still uses a card catalog, took a major step towards closing the digital divide recently, after receiving a hefty technology grant from the Gates Foundation
  

• Discrimination alleged in prosecutor's office
  A Blaine County deputy prosecuting attorney has filed a claim against the county alleging poor treatment in her job by county Prosecuting Attorney Doug Werth
  

• Bear awakenings
  Late in the morning on Sunday, March 26, ski patroller Larry Lofswold rounded a bend on Old Olympic and came face to face with a medium-sized black bear; he estimated it to be a 250-pounder

• Filmmakers who made history
  Pioneers of documentary film discuss truth, revolution and the future
  

• An unlikely artists' collaboration
  Local theater companies hold roundtable
  

• Trust before technology
  The deal struck between the U.S. Department of Energy and activist groups, including the Snake River Alliance, was a wise compromise
  

• Trip to the woodshed
  The Hailey Planning and Zoning Commission dealt out some justice on March 21 when it sent a developer packing and chastised the city planning staff for pushing what was called an "informal endorsement" of the largest commercial development proposed in recent memory
  

• Kempthorne's new endangered species powers—an environmentalist's dilemma
  Now that the Idaho Legislature has entrusted him with policy responsibilities for endangered species, the burden is on Gov. Dirk Kempthorne to demonstrate he won’t be like a fox guarding the hen house. Commentary by Pat Murphy
  

• Wallace Stegner: novelist, teacher, environmentalist and sage
  "Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed…" Commentary by Dick Dorworth
  

• The old and the new
  The stakes: Wood River Valley’s history and architecture
  

• Public Notice Summary
  

The Idaho Mountain Express is distributed free to residents and guests throughout the Sun Valley resort areas. Subscribers to the Idaho Mountain Express will read these stories and more in this weeks' issue:

Hydrologists estimate snowpack will carry Idaho through summmer

The highway: human versus environmental impact

Wood River Valley: a model community

A yurt conflagrigation

Jim Marshall, rock n' roll photographer: still marshalling an audience

Justice Silak sets sights on re-election

Ketchum traffic puzzle

Snug Building could move to Dollar Mountain

Moderates bring perspective to GOP-dominated legislature

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