Parting Shot -- 10/6/06
Shauna Olson, an engine boss for the Nevada Division of Forestry, entertains Fritsch Elementary School students during a fire safety workshop at the Carson City, Nev., school today. (AP Photo Brad Horn, Nevada Appeal)
FRIDAY, OCT. 6, 2006
A Prairie Home Companion Comes to the Palouse
Garrison Keillor says he feels creatively “fertile, ambitious and restless” these days – and he will doubly demonstrate these traits in Pullman Saturday. He will present not just one, but two separate shows at Beasley Coliseum. The afternoon show will be a live broadcast of…
Top Cutlines -- 10/6/06
A tied-up goat looks in the window of a butcher shop in a village near the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, earlier today. You write the cutline. (AP photo) Top CutlinesIn A League of Their Own"No kiddin', son, your ma and I shoulda seen…
SR Pulls Plug on 7 Column Over Ethics Slip
Some readers may have noticed that Courtney Dunham's "All We Never Knew" blog has disappeared from www.spokane7.com, and that her column did not run in today's print edition of 7. Editor Nancy Malone, along with Steve Smith and Gary Graham, made the decision to pull…
Riggs, Wilcox: Kroc, Boys/Girls Club Different
re: Following is an combined editorial by Jack Riggs and Cort Wilcox explaining why the Kroc Center and Boys and Girls Club are different and each deserves support.Rapid growth in Kootenai County is evident on nearly every street corner. Community members and businesses are responding…
Huckleberries Best of the INorthwest -- 10/8/06
Taryn Veniegas, 6, right, buries her twin brother Morgan in leaves at Washington Park in Laramie, Wyo., on Thursday. The two first graders at Snowy Range Academy were occupying their time while a sibling played soccer at the park and hoped to scare a passer-by…
Meanwhile, at the Free Republic ...
... Helen Chenoweth-Hage is missed:1. This is so sad, I do hope enough sanity can be reclaimed in the House of Representative to pay honor to her life. She was one special lady, I always loved to listen to her speak -- Just My Thoughts.2.…
APhoto of the Day -- 10/6/06
A tied-up goat looks in the window of a butcher shop in a village near the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, earlier today. You write the cutline. (AP photo)
CDA Press: Risch Wilderness Plan Too Big to Swallow
"You can't help but admire Gov. Jim Risch for bulldozing bureaucratic barriers and accomplishing everything he possibly can in his eight months as the state's chief executive. But in tackling the gigantic issue of what to do with Idaho's 9.3 million acres of forest land,…
Christie Wood: We Rocked w/Rolling Stones
Christie Wood: I was there! We went last night. My son is a student in Missoula. He called us and surprised us with tickets. We had pretty good seats where we were and then our friend Ken Smith from Dave Smith Motors called my husband…
John Duh: Sick of Mark Foley Garbage
John Duh: I am so sick of this garbage already. Every newspaper, every channel, everywhere I look and listen. Let the courts take care of any illegal activity, and how about the politicians doing something about Health Care, Social Security, etc. ... It is simply…
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