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MONDAY, SEPT. 26, 2005

Wild Card/Monday -- 9/26/05

That leg-stretcher to City Beach was the nicest thing I did today. Huckleberries -- to the men out there. If you want to treat your wife to a wonderful outing, take her for a walk along the shoreline at dusk and then mebbe for a…

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Best of the Local Blogs -- 9/26/05

Very cool illustration by Granati, who happens to do the Dew just like I do.*Tongue firmly cheeked, Digital Fog has come up with "Barbara Streisand’s 10 Step Program to Combat Global Warming” here.*Stebbijo/Your Choice can't figure out what she wants to be after posting her…

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Signs of the Times

I saw my first Mike Kennedy yard sign yesterday as my wife and I were walking on the Dike Road shortly before sunset -- on Denny and Cathy Davis place. It was blue and gold, like my old Gridley High Bulldog colors. If those colors…

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Christmas ... in September!

Remember when Christmas was reserved for December? And then the merchandizers pushed it back to the day after Thanksgiving. In recent years, it has started about Hallowee. Now comes word from John Rook that Clear Channel's KEFM in Omaha, Neb., started programming an all-Christmas format…

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He's Back

Jack Frost wrote a note last nightacross our lawn in sparkling white,said he would be living hereuntil some time in spring next year.The Bard of Sherman Avenue

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Park Police Arrest Anti-War Protester Sheehan

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, the California woman who has used her son's death in Iraq to spur the anti-war movement, is arrested by United States Park police outside the White House earlier today here./APhoto.DFO: Looks like Cindy's keeping herself busy. The Bush administration realizes that…

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Paulos Has It Right -- for A Change

The three incumbent mayors -- Sandi Bloem of Coeur d'Alene, Clay Larkin of Post Falls, and Ron McIntire of Hayden, I believe, are the strongest three ever to hold those offices at the same time. And Larkin put a little frosting on the local government…

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Question of the Day -- 9/26/05

Issue: U.S. crime rate holds at 30-year low: Violent assault, robbery down 57% since 1993/Associated Press.Reality Check: "My sense is that complacency is not justified. This rate means we're down to about twice the level of crime when I was growing up in the 1950s,"…

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Huckleberries AM Headlines -- 9/26/05

*Train derailment dumps potash into Moyie River/Associated Press -- It's Bush's fault. *Idaho Guard sends help for hurricanes: About 400 members to report for security, cleanup/Associated Press -- Has this been cleared with FEMA? The federales have a nasty habit of dissing Idahoans.*Comp time 'can…

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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.