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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

TUESDAY, JAN. 11, 2005

Hot Potatoes Log (1/11/05)

5:44 p.m. What would you say if all the rhymes from The Bard of Sherman Avenue were available on line? It could happen.5:31 p.m. Looks like Christie Wood of the CPD Blue is responding to Coeur d'Alene Press calls for additional news but not ours.…

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Peanut Gallery (How cold is it -- really)

When cold weather is expected, I scan all of the convenient sources for information. This morning, the S/R weather forecast has Wednesday night & Thursday night low temperatures at zero both nights. The weather channel pops up as the same, as of a few minutes…

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Best of the Northwest

Don't look now, but King County has discovered yet another discrepancy that pushes the number of unaccounted for votes back up to 1,800. Since Demo Christine Gregoire's won the re-recount by 129 votes over Repub Dino Rossi, the latest news casts a longer shadow still…

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Northwest Headlines (1/11/05)

Photo/Jesse Tinsley: Kootenai County Commissioner Gus Johnson of the Kootenai County commission tried on an outfit for a Post Falls Rotary fashion show in March 2003. Yesterday, he was named commission chairman. See Item No. 3.*Temperature may hit 14 below: Light snowfall, gusty winds expected…

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Huckleberries Online

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.