December 2023

Four electric vehicle charging stations would be built in the Mill Street Parking Lot under a proposal aired last week to the McCall City Council.Tesla, an Austin, Texas, electric vehicle manufacturer, would spend an estimated $150,000 to upgrade power infrastructure in the city-owned parking lot and install the charging stations, council members were told.The eight parking spaces occupied by the stations would be leased by Tesla for about $19,000 per year, or $200 per month per space.

The recent agreement between the Biden Administration and the states of Washington and Oregon and the tribes on dam breaching represents a missed opportunity.Instead of working together to find common ground, the signatories to the agreement pandered to their political supporters and paid no attention to the REAL impacts dam removal would have on Idahoans.As Idaho state leaders, we are united in our strong opposition to removing the dams because it would eliminate a clean source of energy (hydropower) that powers the entire region, harm agriculture, and fundamentally change our economy for the worse.Sustaining healthy salmon and steelhead populations is important.