Issue: News Corp.'s Murdoch: Newspapers must embrace Internet -- or else risk losing 18- to 34-year-old demographic for good/Associated Press.DFO: A coupla you sent in this story re: the future of newspapers. I agree with Murdoch's analysis. And I'm thankful I have an editor who…
Plaintiff Mary Li, right, and her partner Becky Kennedy are seen in this, Dec. 15, 2004, file photo, outside the Oregon Supreme Court, in Salem, Ore. Li and her spouse were the first same-sex couple to get a marriage license in Oregon. The Oregon Supreme…
Issue: Pastry-wielding hooligans ought to learn a new trick -- or go attack someone other than nerdy types/Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times.DFO: Roeper's column is worth a read. In it, he points out that creeps who hit speakers with pies generally target nerdy types. Targets have…
...Kimberley Osberg/Fresh Air needs your help. Quoth: I’m trying to get an understanding of why people use different blogging tools – i.e. what draws them towards one tool set versus another, particularly for those who use more than one for different types of writing. I…
Tom Clouse’s story “Police investigate infant homicide” on the paper’s website was remarkable here. I’m going to watch Eyenitwit News at 4, 5, and 6 tonight to see how well (and breathlessly with intense urgency) our local television news people cover this “breaking story”. I’m…
Bonsai Bistro General Manager Christine Ramos and Executive Chef Troy Chandler/Tom Davenport photoby Patrick/Making Flippy Floppy, who was impressed that the Hagadone Corp got the smell out of the old bank/bomb shelter/Dakotah Direct building and by the ambience, but not by the food here.Also, Patrick…
U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Afghan President Hamid Karzai at a press conference on Kabul today. You write the cutline ...
First, you should recall that talented sportswriter Mitch Albom (right) wrote "Tuesdays with Morrie," the heart-warming story of his relationship with his college mentor, Morrie Schwartz. Now, you need to know that Albom was caught fabricating a column for the Detroit Free Press. Editors at…
...question: "Do you support the Coeur d'Alene School District's proposed $7.3 million levy, which in part would improve education for advanced learners?" 56% of 57 people said yes (as of 9:21 a.m.), 32% said no. Where do you stand?
Issue: Years after war, a son is lost: Vietnam veteran poisoned by Agent Orange to be honored at Wall/Kevin Graman, SR.DFO: One of my most moving experiences last summer was to visit the traveling Vietnam memorial wall when it stopped at the Coeur d'Alene Indian…
APhoto Fix: Oakland pitcher Barry Zito is making a contribution to the war effort. See No. 5.Wal-Mart plans to spend $35 million over the next decade in compensation for wildlife habitat lost under its corporate footprint. The corporation estimates that the doughnation will preserve at…
Issue: Marianne Love/Slight Detour was willing to stick her neck out today and admit she's cuh-razy about "American Idol" here.DFO: I should know better, but I've been a BIG fan of "Survivor" since it went on the air with Nature Boy Richard Hatch, Sinister Susan…
Phil Corless/Old Goat Trail chronicles the transformation of McEuen Field with a photograph and a conceptual drawing here.
...doesn't appreciate the stand by Concerned Businesses of North Idaho against the School District 271 levy. Quoth BDTS commentator LinZ: What we have to ask Concerned Businesses and anyone else who opposes the levy is this: Do you want to deprive every student in our…
Verbatim from a guest on the FOX News Channel's "Your World with Neil Cavuto" this afternoon:Cavuto: So Idaho is hot right now?Barbara Corcoran: Not so much the whole state of Idaho, but particularly Coeur d'Alene Idaho. It's like the sweetheart of the Northwest right now.…
Colleges Don't Make Fools ... They Only Develop Them.Sweet P's -- to The Heimlich Maneuver who sez s/he was thinking of Colorado prof Ward Churchill when s/he sent this in.
Driving back from the lakethat hot July day,Brittany and her friend Trevorin the backseat eating hard ice cream cones, they are five years old. The ice cream isn't so hard as it meltsall over their hands and faces and laps.I'm trying to stop cold chocolate…
Issue: Developer wants 18-story Parkside: Downtown CdA project would include 53 units in 14 stories of condos, plus retail-office space/From staff reportsDFO: I have mixed emotions about this. On one hand, McEuen Terrace, Coeur d'Alene North, this Parkside project, and others that will follow will…
1:37 p.m. Weekly record blog number for April 3-9: 26,172 for an average of 3739 per day....12:42 p.m. Remember yesterday's bumpersnicker: "You can accomplish more with a kind word and a gun ... Then you can with a kind word alone"? Milt Nelson/Rathdrum knows who…
I'm running late as a result of meeting with my padre, Pastor Steve, this a.m., road construction on Government Way (stay away from the stretch from Appleway to Dalton), computer re-hookup, and the dog ate my software. QF6 ETA about 30 minutes -- DFO
Issue: GQ Magazine names Washington State football fans 6th worst in the country/GQ.DFO: Ya throw a coupla bottles at an Apple Cup game decided in overtime by West Side refs and they never let you forget it.Question: Are you proud of WSU's top 10 ranking…
I got another reminder this a.m. re: how dependent I've become on my computers. I showed up for work early, signed on, typed in my password, and -- nothing. I was stopped dead in my tracks. I didn't know what to do. I can't function…
Last week, I gave a double dollop of rotten potatoes to the family Web site that was circulating T-shirts commemorating Terri Schaivo -- even before she was dead. Now, a clueless Lefty outfit has topped that for poor taste or worst. I can't reproduce the…
Where to start??? Sam Grubbs is married to Erica (Ellingsen), the commissioner's attorney. He evidently did something that warranted an investigation by the state police but is able to gag the county from ever letting a prospective employer know about the investigation or potential wrong…
A worker performs maintenance on a sign reflecting high gas prices Monday, April 11, 2005 at a station near the University of Washington in Seattle. Gas prices soared an average 19 cents in recent weeks, a trend some believe is due to lingering high crude…
D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.
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