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Wild Card/Monday -- 5/1/06

It's May Day, HBOers, which means that we have 3 or 4 more weeks to enjoy our waterfront before the tourists and Spokane visitors move in to crowd us out. If you want to start a thread, you can use this Wild Card to do…

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P.S. -- What Now?

Now that Coeur d'Alene has landed the $65 million Kroc Center grant and is in the process of breaking ground for the new downtown library, is there any major public project left out there to do? Other than some new school buildings? And (wink) a…

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HBO's Best of the Local Blogs -- 5/1/06

CDADave brings parodies with his Thin Air here.*Family Phil doesn't know what to make of his close encounters with mothers who accept him as a stay-at-home father here.*Mari Meehan/Golly Gals goes calling on some neighborhood Alpacas here.*Marianne Love/Slight Detour talks about a shower that occurred…

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Mailbag: Where Is The Tinfoil Brigade?

Digger: I miss the Tinfoil Brigade! Please come back and make us laugh! Siggy, Mike, anyone?????DFO: HBO is a tough crowd to play to, Digger. Not everyone can handle it. People have been known to run off screaming into the night, tearing their hair out,…

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SR Edit: NIC Should Keep Alcohol Ban As Is

"Rather than open Pandora's box and send mixed signals to NIC students, trustees should continue their total alcohol ban. There's nothing wrong with consumption of alcohol in moderation. Or with serving alcohol at fundraisers at The Coeur d'Alene resort or the Coeur d'Alene Inn. School…

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Huckleberries Best of the INorthwest -- 5/1/06

Ulises Galindo, 6, from Portland, Ore., holds a sign during an immigration rally in Portland earlier today/Don Ryan, AP photo.1. David Horsey/Seattle PI presents the Golden Nozzle Award to (drum roll, PUH-leez) vice president Dick Cheney here.2. A Chinese businessman has bought a MiG-21f plane…

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Coeur d'Alene Lands Kroc Center

Mike Kennedy, Coeur d'Alene councilman and HBO regular, just called to say that the city of Coeur d'Alene has landed the $60M Kroc Center grant from the Salvation Army. That's wonderful news for the Lake City, which has been in search of a community center…

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Question of the Day: The Dating Game

Issue: Dating with an eye on safety: Verbal, mental abuse can often lead to violent interaction/Maryanne Gaddy, Spokesman-ReviewDFO: I'm thankful for many things in life, and two of them involve this subject. As a happily married man of almost 31 years, I haven't had to…

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WorldNetDaily Poll -- 5/1/06

Issue: Founder of Minutemen targets run for president: Jim Gilchrist eyes bid with Constitution Party, claims Republicans 'sold out our sovereignty'/WorldNetDailyQuestion: Should anti-illegals activist Jim Gilchrist run for president? 1. No, America needs more immigrants, both legal and illegal 2. No, he hasn't got a…

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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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