Hump Day Wild Card -- 7/26/06
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 2006
McCrory: Give Credit Where Credit's Due
Bill McCrory: You're not giving enough credit to your editor, Steve Smith, for his backing the reporters who put together the articulate, informative, timely articles (and public records requests) that informed the public. Once the newspaper ripped away the veil of secrecy that had concealed…
The Rest Of The Story re: Toddler's Death
A 13-month-old girl died Wednesday after suffering burns to 80 to 90 percent of her body in an early morning fire in Coeur d’Alene. Kylla Pahl was on a couch in the known drug house – alone except for a Rottweiler – when an unattended…
Top Cutlines -- 7/26/06
Reba (with leash) and goatfriend Vivian at the Ontario County Fair in Canandaigua. N.Y., on Tuesday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/The Daily Messenger, Vasiliy Baziuk) Top Cutlines1. I know I promised you pearls Viv, but all I have is an 'unchained Melody' (note the…
Update2: Coeur d'Alene Toddler Dies
... The 2-year-old girl burned over 80 percent of her body in a C Street fire today has died, according to Taryn Brodwater, here.Update: 13-month-old girl has been identified as Kylla Pahl. And the cause of the fire has been determined as an unattended candle…
Her Sandiness Said -- What?
In a press release from Stimson Lumber Company HQ in Portland re: the sale of the Atlas and DeArmond Mill sites to Black Rock, the PRmeister quoted Coeur d'Alene Mayor Sandi Bloem saying the following:"This arrangement gives us the opportunity to fulfill the goal of…
Howard: Gozzer Shows Bad Form On Roads, Too
Last week, I witnessed another of Gozzer Ranch's inability to wait their turn in line. I was south bound on 4th Street in the turn lane to go east on I90, the turn signal had turned green but cars were backed up to the next…
Inside Huckleberries -- 7/26/06
2:16 p.m., I've decided to hold off on telling you about the dyne-oh!-mite Huck until it's published in the print edition Thursday12:04 p.m., "Post Falls city officials are refusing to release the names of the 40-plus applicants who have applied for the city administrator position…
More Bad News For Spokane's Long Arm Of Law
Zehm's prints not on bottle: Video expert to review case/Thomas Clouse, Spokesman-Review; and: Man arrested on child porn charges: Offender was living at Spokane officer's home/Bill Morlin & Benjamin Shors, Spokesman-ReviewDFO: Sometimes, I wonder why the Spokane cops have all these problems but law enforcement…
Rosie: Our Taxes Pay For Riverfront Development
Rosie: Your tax money pays for river development through Lake City Dev. Corp. Taxes are shifted to us because Urban Renewal areas don't pay taxes to the public agencies (except 66 percent to schools) What say you Mr. Burns? How much do the taxpayers pay…
Hump Day Cartoon -- 7/26/06
Michael Ramirez
SR Edit: Idaho Coin Doesn't Reflect State
Few Idahoans know that the peregrine falcon is the state raptor. Or that the peregrine is one of the few success stories of the Endangered Species Act. Yet, it will be forever linked to Idaho now as a symbol as a result of Kempthorne's unilateral…
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.