Wild Card (3/24/05)
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines; here's your evening's Wild Card.
THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2005
Headlines @ Closin' Time
*Kyrgyzstan government collapses after protest: Opposition demonstrators took over presidential compound/Associated Press -- Where?*Death toll in Texas blast hits 15: More than 100 people injured at BP oil refinery/Associated Press -- This week's been off the charts in the blood-and-guts category.*Pope to get 'own' mountain…
Best of the Local Blog (3/24/05)
*Cathy Kooy/Kick Shoe Kooy provides her impressions of the cuh-razy posting going on Tuesday night on Huckleberries Online and tells how all her family is now blogging here.*The Angry Commentator is struggling with blogstipation, but you'd never know that as she offers "Things to do…
Cis sends along a little heart warmer ...
...as we begin to consider Easter here. (Caution: This isn't for grouches.)
Peanut Gallery (Airport screeners)
I have been in and out of airports in the United States for the past couple of months and I have discovered a very interesting fact about the security screening. The people at the head of the line before you get your bags screened, the…
Best of the Northwest (3/24/05)
Tom Grant, ex-TV reporter and mayoral wannabe (pictured in 1996 photo at work at KXLY), and KXLY-TV didn't defame a Spokane businessman 7 years ago by omitting certain facts from their story, according to the state Supreme Court. The court exonerated Grant and the Spokane…
SR Morning Headlines (3/24/05)
*Sheriff promotes political supporters: Sterk names Brady to jail post, Wiyrick as undersheriff/Jonathan Brunt and Thomas Clouse, SR -- Remember that Stephen King miniseries, "Kingdom Hospital"? And the anteater type thing? You do me a solid; I'll do you a solid. Seems to work at…
Q&A
Question (received by e-mail this a.m.: "What do you have to do to create a name like Cis or The Edge so that I can participate without being identified."DFO Answer: Simply create the pseudonym (and make it good because I don't like boring pseudonyms) and…
Hand over those e-mails
Dunno if you read my editorial this a.m. asking county officials to listen to their bosses, us, and provide the interoffice emails between Prosecutor Bill Douglas and his Marina Kalani, his former drug court administrator. Quoth:Earlier this week, Kootenai County released 461 of 1,060 e-mails…
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.