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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 2006

Seattle Takes 2 of 3 From Visiting Angels

Los Angeles Angels first baseman Casey Kotchman, right, fields a pick-off attempt as Seattle Mariners' Joe Borchard dives back to the bag in the third inning today in Seattle. Borchard was safe on the play. Seattle won the game 6-4, with new pitcher Jarrod Washburn…

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Bob re: the death of singer Gene Pitney: He was working on A Blog Without Pity when he died...I know this cuz he was always asking if he could borrow my stuff ...DFO: Bob, of course, is joking. Sort of. Reading between the lines, I…

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Top Cutlines -- 4/5/06

Dawn Vertner, a senior at the University of Wyoming, gets a kiss from Honey, a Golden Retriever that Vertner says is "an obsessive licker," while attending an inter-squad scrimmage of the Wyoming football team at War Memorial Stadium in Laramie, Wyo., Saturday. You write the…

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Mailbag: No Place Like CDA Home

Stopthecrazygrowth: For all the complaining I do, there is still an awful lot to like about living here. To me, the one underlying positive about our community is that it is in fact very much a community. You would have to go far and wide…

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Sen. Jorgenson: "It Gives Rise To Secession"

Issue: North Idaho Secede From State?/Eye On BoiseSen. Mike Jorgenson (arguing for property tax relief): “People in the north have been sending signals for a long time. It’s evolved into tax initiatives and turning school bonds down. These things all lend themselves to regionalism –…

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APhoto of the Day -- 4/5/06

Dawn Vertner, a senior at the University of Wyoming, gets a kiss from Honey, a Golden Retriever that Vertner says is "an obsessive licker," while attending an inter-squad scrimmage of the Wyoming football team at War Memorial Stadium in Laramie, Wyo., Saturday. You write the…

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SR Edit: Confronting Neo-Nazis Not Wise

Veteran members of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations have seen this drama played out before, at the gates of the old Aryan Nations compound on the rimrock above Hayden Lake, on Sherman Avenue in downtown Coeur d'Alene, at Coeur d'Alene's City Park.…

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Quick Fix 6 -- 4/5/06

1. APhoto Fix: This photo, supplied by NBC shows Brian Williams from "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams," reports from Hurricane Katrina-stricken New Orleans in 2005. NBC and CNN, along with two Gulf Coast stations that stayed on the air throughout Hurricane Katrina, won Peabody…

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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.