Put your hands together for Blogmeister Ryan Pitts, who, at least temporarily, has resolved the problems with the three-letter jumble and produced a system today to stop spammers. I haven't heard any yelping (other than about the usual stuff), so it apparently is doing the…
Issue: Employers wiping out Net surfing on the job/Eric Benderoff, Chicago TribuneDFO: We, at HBO, had quite a row about Web surfing during working hours when the Kootenai County commissioners banned this blog from the courthouse 10 days or so ago. That, of course (with…
"Eighteen members of the WSU Young Democrats had an important meeting with the man who is, arguably, the last honorable president in recent memory — and by recent, I mean since the 1960’s. Carter was clean, moral and honest. He worked hard to restore the…
Illustration/Fly ("Best 2 Out of 3")I couldn't find anything as good as this APhoto I published at closin' time last night. So, I decided to use it for the cutline contest today. Here, two squirrels frolic on a sidewalk in Alexandria, Va., Monday. You write…
Anthony Newton, 12, gets attacked by his friends Tuesday during North Idaho Christian School's water party at the Hayden City Park/Jerome A. Pollos, Coeur d'Alene Press.
If you drive a car, I'll tax the street If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat If you get too cold, I'll tax the heat If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet 'Cause I'm the taxman, Yeah, I'm the taxman
Alice Rankin: My total 2006 assessment is up $72,500 over last years. $47,110 for land and $25,450 for Dwellings. What I found interesting was that the amount that last year's taxing districts charged was not included on the Assessment Notice, as it was last year.…
Kelly Richards: If the levy rate does not decrease somewhere in the neighborhood of the average assessed increase (in this case 40%) then the taxes each person pays out of their pocket will increase. This is a good reminder for elected officials as they set…
Blogmeister Ryan will flip the switch on our improved letter-jumble spam blocker this around 1 p.m. It'll require you to type in the 3 random letters and your e-mail address (which won't be shown to the general HBO reader) to participate. If you have any…
Rancher Wayne Hage is shown in November 1997 in the area where federal agents seized 100 head of his cattle in 1991, in Meadow Canyon near Tonopah, Nev. Hage, who battled the federal government for decades over public lands and private property rights and came…
Issue: Library nearly funded: Parker family donates $330,000; just furniture money left to be raised/Tom Greene, Coeur d'Alene PressDFO: This is a repeat of a story that we published Saturday. But I'm reprinting it here to initiate discussion re: a related subject. With the library…
I couldn't find anything as good as this APhoto I published at closin' time last night. So, I decided to use it for the cutline contest today. Here, two squirrels frolic on a sidewalk in Alexandria, Va., Monday. You write the cutline/Gerald Herbert, AP photo.
OrangeTV: I wanted to randomly interject...I ran into Jerry Jaeger at Safeway this evening in the cat food aisle and was totally floored that he remembered my name nearly 6 years after our last encounter when I worked at the resort and met him twice,…
Imagine, if you will, a tourist coming to downtown CDA in the year 2010. He has a chamber of commerce map of our area's noteworthy features. The following would be the account of his adventures:I looked way up in the airAt the tall building they'd…
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.
