Tuesday Wild Card -- 7/26/05
That's all for today, kids. I'll judge the cutline contest, and then I'm off to an early dinner and some church obligations. See you back here tomorrow morning around 9 ...
TUESDAY, JULY 26, 2005
Best of the Local Blogs -- 7/26/05
*Bill McCrory/Whitecaps wonders who's pulling the strings in the current push to transform county government into a streamlined one with part-time commissioners running the show here.*Family Phil knew how to act when he heard his young daughter screaming from a Coldwater Creek bathroom -- nonchalant.…
Big Midtown Meeting Tonight
The Lake City Development Corp. is hosting a public brain-storming session at 5:30 tonight in the Coeur d'Alene School District's Midtown meeting room (5th & Linden) to discuss -- Midtown. That's the area between 3rd & 4th streets, between Foster and Harrison avenues. Mark Hinshaw,…
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Idaho Sen. Larry Craig's father dies at age 87: Elvin Craig served as a county commissioner/Associated Press
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Early prognosis good for Turiaf: Doctors repair damage without replacing heart valve/Spokesman-Review.
Ah'm Your Huckleberry
Remember that cat fight at JDs bar during Bayview Daze? Well, there was another battle royal in Bayview early July 19 -- this time between two men and a 1968 Harley Davidson (may it rest in peace). Seems Nathan Upchurch, 32, was fishing at the…
Panhandle Man Fired for Blogging, Gun Advocacy?
Without warning and despite great performance reviews, Joe Huffman a research scientist in computer security was fired by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory of Richland, Wash. Huffman suspects that his advocacy and personal blogging in support of gun rights was his undoing. Orbusmax reports on the…
"It's Still Rocket Science"
Hat Tip: Jay D. Dyson/Sacred Cow Burgers
County Clerk Comes Clean
re: "Gotcha" item and speeding ticket this A.M.Wow, can't get away with anything with all those berry pickers around! First one in about 15 years. Yes unfortunately that was me ("but officer, I was just trying to get my wife to work a little early…
A Wage War in North Idaho?
Yep, Editor/Janitor Frum Helen Back offers ample proof with her latest entry in Hauser Thoughts: "The billboard in front of the Post Falls' Mc Donald's reads they are hiring at $6.75/hr. Not far away, Taco Bell posts they are paying $7/hr. Both sure beat the…
Question of the Day -- 7/26/05
Issue: Workshop explores turning huckleberries into cash crop/Betsy Russell, SR. DFO: It was 1977, and I was new to the Inland Northwest when the late C. Patrick King took me huckleberrying and fly fishing for the first time -- behind the Hungry Horse Dam, just…
Quick Fix 6 -- 7/26/05
1. APhoto Fix: Discovery and seven astronauts blasted into orbit Tuesday on America's first manned space shot since the 2003 Columbia disaster, ending a painful, 2 1/2-year shutdown devoted to making the shuttle less risky and NASA more safety-conscious, according to the Washington Post, here.2.…
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.