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When your home or business is damaged by water, fire or a storm, it's important to have a contractor with skill and experience step in and take over after the mitigation is complete.

05/29/2026

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05/29/2026

It's getting crowded around here. 🤨

You finished a 10-hour day on your feet. Now you have to write the report. 🚧Field Command does it for you.Type what happ...
05/26/2026

You finished a 10-hour day on your feet. Now you have to write the report. 🚧
Field Command does it for you.
Type what happened on the job in plain English. AI pulls out crew hours, tracks your budget, writes your client report, drafts your emails, and flags you if you're going over — all from your phone in about 90 seconds.
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It's all about the people we meet."When it needs to be built right, it's got to be BuildSTRONG!"
05/20/2026

It's all about the people we meet.

"When it needs to be built right, it's got to be BuildSTRONG!"

Homeowner: can you put a deck here?BuildSTRONG: Yep!
05/11/2026

Homeowner: can you put a deck here?

BuildSTRONG: Yep!

I started this series because I was sitting in traffic doing math.I'm ending it with a number: $1,945.That's roughly wha...
05/07/2026

I started this series because I was sitting in traffic doing math.

I'm ending it with a number: $1,945.

That's roughly what every adult resident of Ada and Canyon counties would receive every year, if we priced new development at what it actually costs us, locked the money outside government's reach, and paid it directly back to the people whose time is being taken.

Two-adult household: close to $4,000 a year. Every year. By formula.
Alaska's been doing the equivalent for 50 years with oil money. They got the structure mostly right — the fund's principal is in their constitution and has never been raided. Their mistake was leaving the dividend formula in regular law, where the legislature could override it. They've lost about $15 billion to that mistake since 2016.

We can do it better on the first try. Put the whole thing in the Idaho Constitution. No backdoors.
The full proposal — math, constitutional language, legal pathway, all of it — is written. I'll send it to anyone who asks.
But the proposal doesn't matter unless the legislature puts it on the ballot. They don't put things on the ballot unless their constituents ask them to. Loudly.

If this idea makes sense to you, find your senator and your two representatives. Their email addresses are on legislature.idaho.gov. Tell them you want to see this on the ballot. Tell them by name.
That's how something like this actually moves.

In 1976, a small group of Alaskans realized something.Their state was sitting on enormous oil revenue. The politicians w...
05/04/2026

In 1976, a small group of Alaskans realized something.
Their state was sitting on enormous oil revenue. The politicians were ready to spend it through the regular budget process — meaning, in practice, on whatever won the next political fight. A handful of legislators, led by Governor Jay Hammond, said no.
Instead, they amended the state constitution. The oil money would go into a permanent fund. The fund's principal could never be touched. The earnings would be paid out — every year, by formula, equally — to every Alaska resident.
Almost 50 years later, that fund holds $86 billion. Every Alaskan still gets an annual check. The principal has never been raided.
That's the model. A finite resource (oil for them, our quality of life here), a price on what's being lost, a structurally-protected payout to the people losing it.
We can do the same thing here. With one important fix to a mistake Alaska made.
That's the next post.

What if the cost of growth showed up on the right ledger?What if, instead of every existing resident silently paying the...
05/03/2026

What if the cost of growth showed up on the right ledger?
What if, instead of every existing resident silently paying the price of every new home in lost time, the developer paid it at the permit counter — the way they pay for the building inspection, the impact fee, the water hookup?
What if that money never touched a government budget? What if it went straight to the people whose time is being taken — every adult resident of Ada and Canyon counties, by formula, once a year, like clockwork?
It's not a fantasy. A state already does this with a different resource. I'll get to that next post.

I've been driving the same roads for years. Watching them get slower. Watching the valley fill in. Wondering if anyone w...
05/02/2026

I've been driving the same roads for years. Watching them get slower. Watching the valley fill in. Wondering if anyone was actually counting the cost.

So I started counting.

I pulled the regional planner's traffic forecast.
I pulled the wage data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
I pulled the building permit numbers from the counties.
I did the arithmetic.
Every new home built in the Treasure Valley imposes about $257,000 in lost time on the people already living here. Over 20 years. Per house.
Multiply that by 7,022 homes built last year. The number gets uncomfortable fast.
The question isn't whether growth has a cost. The math says it does.
The question is who pays it. And right now, the answer is: you do.
I have a proposal. Coming up.

Last post: the Caldwell-to-Boise commute almost doubled in 11 years.This post: here's why.In 2025 alone, Ada and Canyon ...
04/30/2026

Last post: the Caldwell-to-Boise commute almost doubled in 11 years.

This post: here's why.

In 2025 alone, Ada and Canyon counties issued building permits for 7,022 new homes.
The year before, 7,467.
The year before that, similar.
That's roughly 75,000 new homes in the last decade. 75,000 driveways with new cars backing out of them.
75,000 reasons your drive is longer.
And every one of those projects pencils out for the developer because the cost of slowing down everyone else's life isn't on the spreadsheet.

It should be.

35 minutes.That's how long it took to drive from Caldwell to Boise in 2007.By 2018 it was 63 minutes. The regional plann...
04/30/2026

35 minutes.

That's how long it took to drive from Caldwell to Boise in 2007.

By 2018 it was 63 minutes. The regional planners — COMPASS, the agency that's actually in charge of forecasting this — say it'll hit 70 minutes by 2040.
That's not a guess. That's their official long-range plan.

Read that again: the people whose job it is to plan our roads are telling us, on paper, that the commute is going to keep getting worse. They've already accepted it.

I haven't.

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