Idaho Falls

July 2022

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62 IDAHO FALLS MAGAZINE JULY 2022 OUT THERE Growing Pains provide a ride at 7:15. They said that they would keep looking, but I might want to explore other options. They even said they wouldn't penalize me for canceling. Thanks! The Idaho Falls Airport has also grown, and the changes have mostly been for the positive. The new gates and expanded public areas have really make a difference. As someone who worked on ground crews there for a bit, I can only imagine how jammed things are behind the scenes with all the added flights. Parking has also become more of an adventure, and you are sure to get all your daily steps in before you get to your plane. It used to be you could take a nice little nap in front of the airport if you were waiting to pick someone up. Thanks to increased passenger numbers, you barely have time to load or unload before IF Five-0 shows up to roust you and make you circulate rather than sit. Boomtowns are nothing new to the West. Every week I get an update from Zillow about how much the value of my home has increased. I still haven't figured out why things have gotten so crazy and where I would move if I sold my home for three times what it really is worth. I doubt at this point that I could even afford a garden shed in Pingree. The bubble is sure to burst–it always does. The trick is to make sure you don't have the most expensive place on the block when it does! For eons, the high sagebrush steppe was the domain of the Shoshone and Bannock tribes. When the first wagon trains started to roll through in the 1840s they probably hoped it was a passing fad and that all the pioneers would keep on rolling to Oregon. When they were forced onto Fort Hall by the Fort Bridger Treaty of 1868, I'm sure they knew that their original way of life was gone forever. The past was not a kind place, and neither is the present. The important thing is to remember that we need to treat each other with kindness and respect. We may be the current residents, but there were many occupants before us and there will be hopefully many more after us. That is, if we don't make too big a mess of things. BY GREGG LOSINSKI COMPARED TO WHAT IS HAPPENING IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD those of us who live in Idaho Falls have had it pretty darn good. Almost too good. Folks from all around the country have decided they would like to have a little slice of heaven for themselves, and things are starting to get a bit cramped. Just like you can tell how good the spread at the dessert bar of an all-you- can-eat buffet is by how hard it is to belly your way in. Right now, the line for the dessert bar here in Idaho Falls is out the door and into the parking lot. It is clear to see that lots of the cars in the lot have shiny new Idaho license plates and tires better suited to creep in traffic rather than bounce down mountain gravel roads. I'm not sure that our streets need to be redone because of all the increased traffic, but it sure is taking longer to drive across town. I swear I've watched spuds start to sprout as the trucks crawled down Broadway. Ironically, more people are moving in but the number of people available to work seems to be going down. Recently I tried to get an Uber to the airport. I even booked the ride on their app the night before my flight. Uber immediately took the fare from my Venmo account, so I felt pretty confident that I was going to have a ride. The next morning at 7:12 I received a notice from Uber that they might not be able to IF

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