Wild Card ...
I've moved up the afternoon Wild Card to become the evening one. Busy day. I'll check in on your threads later this evening. Thanks for the usual good time ...
THURSDAY, AUG. 18, 2005
Twin Lakes At Sunset 2
Mike Salsbury, photo editor of The Columbian in Vancouver, Wash. shot these superb photos of the Twin Lakes at sunset after that big storm while vacationing in North Idaho last week.
P.S. -- 8/18/05
Issue: Sheehan to leave Texas: Anti-war activist going to L.A. to be with mother who just had stroke/NBC News.DFO: Cindy Sheehan is one of the true tragic figures of the Iraq war. She has lost everything that a person could hold dear: her son, her…
Best of the Local Blogs -- 8/18/05
Katie Kuhns/Rathdrum snapped this photo of the giant cedars up the north fork of the Coeur d'Alene near Murray, Idaho.*The Bard of Sherman Avenue has added all his recent poems to his blog roll for your reading pleasure here.*You're in for a treat. CDADave has…
Peanut Gallery: In Praise of Gonzaga Prep
The demographics of Prep closely resemble those of the neighborhood and the neighborhood high school, John Rogers. A solid majority of the kids attending Gonzaga Prep qualify for federally subsidized lunches! About...10 years ago...Gonzaga Prep became the only Jesuit High School in the country to…
Huckleberries Best of the Northwest -- 8/18/05
ABC News' Barbara Walters interviews actress Margot Kidder at her home in Montana several years ago after Kidder was found dazed and confused in Glendale, Calif. See Item No. 2.Eight people, including four from Plummer, Idaho, are named in an 88-count federal racketeering indictment returned…
Quote of the Day -- 8/18/05
They were just in awe of the place. They thought they were coming to a big potato field.-- Ron Gardner, Idaho Department of Commerce and Labor, re: Coeur d'Alene to a nationwide gathering of 350 state tourism officials at the Cda Resort.
Peanut Gallery -- Indian Mascots
re: Nicolee Bradbury's SRant of the Day hereI am an enrolled member of a nationally recognized tribe. I remember growing up seeing bumper stickers on vehicles here on my reservation that read "Indian and proud of it!" AND the mascot of the local NATIVE elementary…
What's Cheapest Out There?
Huckleberries Online needs input from the gas price front. I bought regular last night for $2.42.9 per gallon at Del Kerr's Exxon on Appleway & 4th. Any place beat that today?Feedback: The Advocate sez it was $2.38 at Costco yesterday. Tony Rosen sez $2.60 in…
There Goes The Neighborhood ...
Bigger bar, marina planned at Arrow Point: Developer hopes to demolish building and construct more upscale establishment/Erica Curless, SR.DFO: "Upscale" is another way of saying that we don't want the blue-collars in jalopies stopping by here.
Quick Fix 6 -- 8/18/05
1. APhoto Fix: Senate Judiciary Committee staffers wheel boxes of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' documents into a committee office on Capitol Hill this morning in Washington. Confirmation hearings on Roberts' nomination are scheduled to begin Sept. 6 2. Cartoon Fix: Henry Payne (Inflation), Robert…
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