Wild Card/Tuesday -- 6/12/06
So far, it seems that the problems of Monday are behind us at The Spokesman-Review. So, I'll blog on cautiously today. Meanwhile, you can start your own thread with this Wild Card ...
TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 2006
P.S. -- SR To Begin Webcasting News Meetings
"Beginning Wednesday, The Spokesman-Review will webcast our two daily news meetings, at 10 a.m. and 4:30 p.m."This is a long-discussed development, an experiment that is one of the fundamental elements of our transparent newsroom initiative. We know that readers have come to expect, demand even,…
Pollos/CDA Press: Pimping A Sweet Ride
Blake Rosenberger, left, and his father, Ron Rosenberger, stand next to their family's early-model 1947 Chevrolet truck on Tuesday in Hayden. The truck was bought new by Ron's father, Bill Rosenberger. The truck has seen daily duties as a grocery delivery truck in the '40s…
Mailbag: Another Sign Old CDA Is Gone
Whippersnapper: The no-free-hour decision was bad when they made it last year, and still is. I think the free hour (or two at 3rd St.) was to sell the idaea of commercializing city parking and partly in deference to local people who like to go…
Looking Fine @ Yahoo, Amazon -- Ann Coulter
Political commentator Ann Coulter poses in New York's Central Park, Aug. 11, 2003. In the 48 hours after Ann Coulter bashed the 9/11 widows last week, searches for her name on Yahoo rocketed by 2300 percent. Her book shot to No. 1 on Amazon.com/Jim Cooper,…
Dan of the County: Primary Turnout Bad To The Bone
Just how bad was the May 23 primary turnout, HBOers? Bad. B-b-b-bad. But not much better or worse than other primaries, according to resident expert Dan of the County. Turnout in the 2nd congressional district was slightly better than the 1st CD, 26.3% to 25.4%,…
Huckleberries Best of the Northwest -- 6/13/06
Montana Grizzly Encounter trainer Casey Anderson uses a piece of orange flavored candy while coaxing a snarl from Brutus, a 700-pound, 4-year-old grizzly bear while filming a movie near White Sulphur Springs, Mont., Monday, June 12, 2006. The film, "Iron Ridge", is being shot by…
SOS: SMAC'M Going ... Going ...
"Although we’ve had 1,300 hits on our website, the total amount of donations received through the website is $1 – and that was the dollar I donated to make sure the system was working. I recently contacted 81 local businesses and asked them to advertise…
Extra! Rove Escapes CIA Leak Prosecution
Issue: Rove won't be prosecuted in CIA leak case: Top White House aide under scrutiny over disclosure of agent's identity/NBC News Question (choose one): All of this was partisan much to do about nothing? Or this was a big deal and prosecutors shoulda thrown the…
APhoto of the Day -- 6/13/06
Qiao Yubo, who is pregnant with at least five babies, walks with her husband, right, in Songyuan, in China's northeast Jilin province on Sunday. Qiao, who is 1.67-meters tall, has a waistline measurement of 1.75 meters, five months into her pregnancy. You write the cutline/AP…
Question: A Special Session For Tax Relief
"All is not lost for most homeowners who, in Kootenai County, saw their property assessments increase an average of 40 percent this year. Not only should they lobby the governor to follow through and call a special session of the Legislature to address property tax…
Mailbag: Being Infiltrated By RINOs
Alice Rankin: Don't you know DFO, that Democrats run as Republicans in Southern Idaho, and it's even beginning in Republican Kootenai County. That's because they can't get elected in their own party, so they run in the Republican primary mostly against conservatives. That's why we…
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