Issue: Initiative would raise Idaho sales tax: Extra penny to be used to fund education/Betsy Russell, Spokesman-ReviewDFO: Ah, I need to read the small print.Question: Would you support an Idaho's teachers initiative to increase the sales tax to 6 percent to support education?
Doug Fredericks/Hayden continues to take my breath away with his stunning photography, including this 2005 shot that he calls "Sunny Morning."*CDADave was disappointed by what he found at the reopened Tesoro Truck Stop on the south end of Sherman Avenue here.*What's this? His Bobness engaging…
In what may be his last day in office Spokane Mayor Jim West works at his desk in City Hall earlier today. The logo in the carpet ( foreground ) is one of the touches West brought to the office during his tenure/Christopher Anderson, The…
Former Post Falls Chamber of Commerce Exec Ray Murphy (also a former UI Asst. Athletic Director) is currently in the ICU at Deaconess with a bad head injury after falling down some stairs a few days ago. Send prayers his way.Family Phil
Everything seems nicey-nice as the local papers reported that the CDA school district has decided to back off its attempt to relocate Lakes Middle School to Person Field here and here. But Bill McCrory/Whitecaps pulls the curtain back in his blog to reveal that the…
The city needs to buy the school district's 1/2 of Persons Field and then make it into a REAL park. I think the fields should stay if possible, but it'd be nice if, say, there were slant parking on the north side of Garden (across…
Monday afternoon a Lakeland school district bus slid off the road on Ramsey. Simple rear tire slide off, no one hurt, no property damage. A fish and game officer, female, stopped her truck in the middle of the road and started directing traffic. Then she…
A four picture combination shows the hands of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gesturing as she briefs the media in the Chancellery in Berlin earlier today, following talks with the German Chancellor Angela Merkel. You write the cutline.
Item: Actress Naomi Watts, who stars in the upcoming remake of "King Kong," poses for photos in the hands of a 20 foot tall replica of King Kong in New York's Times Square Monday.DFO: I plan to thoroughly enjoy Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong.…
Issue: Telemarketers 'worse than congressmen': Nurses top list of professionals looked upon as being most honest, ethical/Editor & Publisher Question: Which professionals are the most dishonest and/or unethical? 1. Advertising practitioners 2. Attorneys 3. Business CEOs 4. Clergy 5. Entertainers 6. Journalists 7. Politicians 8.…
Just got in from a dental appointment, and I'm running late. QF6 coming to a blog site near you soon ...
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.
