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Issue: A City Hall Berry Picker called today to pose a question about which he's been wondering. Who in Coeur d'Alene knows the most people? I responded: Marshall Mend. But he had in mind Councilman Ron Edinger. A good case could be made for popular…
"So are newspapers dying? Is this the question? The answer is: of course not. Then again, yes. Just not in the way you think. They are merely shifting, peeling back, juggling approaches and reorganizing ideas, all in order to be reborn. In order to adapt.…
*When I was in Bayview over the weekend, I saw my first No Bob stickers - actually stickers with the name Bob and a red slash through the name. Been told these are in response to Bob Holland's efforts to develop Bayview.*I also stopped in…
"Well, July 4th is upon us beleaguered citizzens of Core Duane...er, Coeur d'Alene (already, I'm asking for trouble, aren't I?). Just when you think that things can't get any nuttier around here, we get a bunch of rich property owners who are getting all silly…
"I've pulled a lot of weeds, but never that type of weed" -- ex-congressional hopeful Cecil Kelly to the Coeur d'Alene Press re: the marijuana plant he found growing outside his downtown area home.And: "I don't do it (smoke marijuana). I've never done it and…
Former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay waves as he walks to the federal courthouse in week ten of his fraud and conspiracy trial in this April 4, 2006 file photo in Houston. Lay, 64, has died today, according to his lawyer here/Pat Sullivan, AP Photo File.DFO:…
Three bucks buys a gallonof Conoco premium,but only a pint ofGodiva ice creamium.The Bard of Sherman Avenue
Issue: I've already received a coupla complaints about the appearance of Steve Groene and his daughter, Shasta, in the Fourth of July Parade. The complainants were appalled that Groene would trot out his daughter in a local parade as though she were a beauty pageant…
Informed Idahoan: I wish I had the time to collect the data and do the math to equate the amount of property tax dollars which were shifted to nonURD property owners. I just wonder if the old IFI Atlas Mill which was purchased by Chesrown(SP)…
CDADave: Mark Peterson falls on his face every day, trying to be humorous. Mark is basically TV's idea of KVNI's "Morning show" ... And I tuned in KREM the other day ... we all know Charles (Rowe) is "getting up there", and Nadine's (Woodward) starting…
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.
