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TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2005


Best of the Local Blogs -- 5/24/05

*SidVicious/Idle Idahoan tells you about a team in the U.S. Senate Softball League that's consisted primarily of Idaho expatriates who make occasional enemies as the season wears on here.*CDADave believes you can tell quite a bit about a person by how much s/he charges to…

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Sightem

At the west-bound side of Garden and Third, someone has turned the "One Way" sign upside-down, so the arrow indicates that North is the direction for Third. Too bad there aren't more touristas in town. -- Ryan Hill.DFO: They'll be here soon enough, Ryan; enjoy…

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Question No. 2

Issue: Citizen panel may look at officials' pay: Kootenai County commissioners consider creating committee to recommend salaries for top elected officials/Erica Curless, SR.Commissioner Gus Johnson: "A study recommends giving elected officials a 'huge increase,' although he declined to give specific figures." DFO: Yeah, right.Question: Are…

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Explaining The Duane

Offline, The Heimlich Maneuver of Oklahoma City, Okla., said he enjoys the blog but sometimes gets lost re: things peculiar to North Idaho. For example, he asks, who is "The Duane"? In 25 words or less (and I'll hold you to that limit), how would…

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Photo of the Day w/Top Cutlines -- 5/24/05

Instructor Megan Garcia, left, works with student Kristie Lee Crystal as they stretch into yoga positions during their plus-size yoga class at Union Theological Seminary in New York Monday. You right the cutline.Top Comments:1. With Republicans and Democrats at an impasse over President Bush's judicial…

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The Times They Have Achanged

"Wow ... we're all getting older" -- former Idaho senator Gordon Crow, who sent along this photo with the notation: "Happy Birthday to Robert Allen Zimmerman." For you youngsters who don't know whom we're talking about, click on Today's Birthdays from My Way and go…

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Quick Fix 6 (5/24/05)

APhoto Fix: Moroccan Abdelhak Chergui, 32, right, is led away by a policeman in Granada, Spain, Tuesday May 24, 2005, after his arrest along with two other Moroccans in Madrid for their alleged involvement in the Madrid train bombings on March 11, 2004 that killed…

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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.