Issue: Bull's-eye on Burke: Letter signed by some business owners claim 'no confidence' in NIC president for failing to address needs/Brian Walker, Coeur d'Alene PressMore Info: "Over the last three to four years, the business community throughout the service area of NIC ... have made…
QBs for seven of the nine WAC teams have star potential, according to the Idaho Statesman, including UI's Steve Wichman here. Idaho football coach Dennis Erickson, shown above during spring drills, discusses Wichman and the upcoming season in an audio report provided at the same…
Colleague Erica Curless has just returned from the county commissioner's announcement today re: two ritzy developments proposed on Lake Coeur d'Alene. County commissioners OK'd the Black Rock North subdivision on a 2-0 vote, with Commish Rick Currie declaring a conflict of interest (didn't explain) and…
Issue: Spokane sheriff fires jail supervisor: Sergeant lied about two affairs with workers, Knezovich says/Thomas Clouse, Spokesman-ReviewMore Info: Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich fired one of his jail supervisors Wednesday for allegedly lying about two separate affairs with female subordinates and issuing a false document…
Sgt. Christie Wood, left, of the Coeur d'Alene Police and Glenn Lauper of the Coeur d'Alene Fire Department at scene of C Street fire. (Jesse Tinsley, Spokesman-Review)Issue: Girl dies from burns in CdA house fire: 13-month-old was alone when blaze started/Taryn Brodwater, Spokesman-Review; and: Baby…
Doreen (re: death of 13-month-old Kylla Pahl in house fire): It seems that if a parent is a drug or alcohol abuser and has demostrated neglect of their child(ren) their parental rights should be terminated more often than we see happen. Sure, we'd all love…
County Commissioner-elect Todd Tondee (re: rumor that he's backing Tami Martinez to fill his spot on Post Falls City Council: Just to set the story straight the mayor has the sole responsibility to appoint any council seat that is vacated and the whole council approves…
Issue: Court upholds gay marriage ban: Massachusetts remains only state to allow gay marriage after 5-4 vote/Rich Roesler, Spokesman-ReviewJustice Barbara Madsen (writing in the ruling): Washington’s 1998 Defense of Marriage Act “…is constitutional because the legislature was entitled to believe that limiting marriage to opposite-sex…
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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…
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…
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…
... 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…
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…
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…
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…
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: 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…
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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…
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Issue: 50% of U.S. says Iraq had WMDs: Harris poll finds 'surprising' result, up from 36% last year/Washington TimesMore Info: The survey did not speculate on what caused the shift in opinion, which supports President Bush's original rationale for going to war. Respondents were questioned…
4:23 p.m., I tried to persuade another HBO bloke that neither JBelle or UBob is channeling Marmitetoasty, the newby from Jolly Old England. She's for real, a single mother of four boys-to-men who lives in a 102yo cottage in the County Hampshire. I've talked to…
Is it just me, or are the mill sites in North Idaho somehow merely the larval stage of a new Chesrown development? -- DanG (who's on a roll this p.m.)
CDADave: Esto Perpetua" translates roughly to "Full Of It Forever." Complete Thin Air comment here.
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.
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