...Bill McCrory/Whitecaps sez he no longer trusts the Review Board or high-ranking sheriff's officers here.

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*"There are no easy ways to break up with someone but an email is only better than a sharpie scrawled note wrapped around a rock and thrown through a bedroom window" -- Bob Salsbury/Random Shallow Thoughts.*Phil Corless/A Family Runs Through It has a list of…

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Traci Watson, general editor of the NIC Sentinel, columnizes in the current edition that she was happy when she learned her brother wasn't putting his daughter in sports. This, although Traci has played sports since age 6 and traveled to Europe to play soccer. Quoth…

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Issue: High court hears Ten Commandments cases: Scalia questions why legislatures can invoke God but Decalogue not allowed/Associated Press.DFO: The crusade against all things religious in the public square by the ACLU and intolerant allies has gone too far.Question: Do you believe the public square…

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If your wife is out-of-country, you shouldn't be calling a Spokane dating service, or letting a strange woman into your home late at night. A CDA man, "C.J.," did both -- and is now $200 and a diamond-studded tennis bracelet poorer. C.J. told CPD Blue…

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*War hero Baker needs help in Medicare battle: Benefit to help Medal of Honor recipient pay bills/Cynthia Taggart, SR -- Heaven help anyone who has to battle the Medicare maze. A war hero, like Vernon Baker (pictured above with President Clinton at his Medal of…

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The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments today in two cases regarding whether displaying the Ten Commandments on public property violates the First Amendment. Townhall.com has provided a roundup of articles about these historic cases: AgapePress (Attorneys ready for historic proceedings), ReligionJournal.com: (Ten Commandments displays…

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Marshall Chesrown is a gentleman and a businessman. In the S-R story, Marshall says to make the deal pencil out, he will need to recoup his costs with waterfront property. The S-R article states he has not yet met with education players, that they don't…

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...and other Looney Tune characters are going to get a "28th century" makeover when they debut next fall as Loonatics here.

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in the Middle East today (for all but the most close-minded Lefties):I think even the fiercest critics of president Bush's handling of the post-liberation phase in Iraq will still be thrilled at what appears to me to be glacial but important shifts in the right…

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Sightem: Four boys on the sidewalk along Northwest Boulevard walking toward the Coeur d'Alene Skate Park with boards in hand. At least, three of them had their skateboards in hand. The fourth was pushing a baby in a stroller. Musta got his marching orders from…

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Item: High court ends death penalty for youths: 5-4 decision throws out sentences of about 70 juvenile murderers/Associated Press.DFO: We should be glad that the softies on the Supreme Court didn't order juvenile thugs to receive a merit badge and be released. Sheesh. I hope…

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*Spokane grows by 207 acres, 1,640 people: Council's annexation vote increases lead over Tacoma for state's No. 2/Mike Prager, SR -- If you can't outbreed 'em, out-annex 'em.*Bush plan could boost BPA rates 65 percent: Power council predicts BPA switch to market rates could cost…

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1 p.m. Blog numbers for the month of February will top 45,000, which will beat my biggest month to date, January, by around 7,000 pageviews.8:40 a.m. Three cheers for -- March 1. Hip, hip, etc. This day means two things: We've survived February and winter…

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