Kiley Cruse/AP Photo, The World-HeraldShoppers file out of the Von Maur store with their hands up after a shooting at Westroad Mall Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007. A man opened fire with a rifle at a busy department store Wednesday, killing eight people before taking his…
I'm currently on a conference call listening to discussion by Editor Steve Smith and the Spokane newsroom re: the new assignments announced Tuesday. Interesting stuff. Pretty civil so far. Now, they're talking about the push to online journalism. Editor Smith is sold on the idea…
Do you have a nickname? I do (duh), I have been called Sparky off and on for a couple of decades by old friends who should be old enough to forget something once in a while. I use to grumble about being called Sparky. Once,…
AP PhotoThis photo provided by the Smithsonian's National Zoo, taken last week shows four baby Solomon Island leaf frogs. born Nov. 20 at the zoo in Washington. They skipped the tadpole phase emerging from their eggs as fully-formed frogs known as froglets. The Solomon Island…
Item: Divorce bad for planet, study says: Break-ups result in more land, material use/Dallas Morning NewsMore Info: An analysis of data on domestic relations and resource use in the U.S. and 11 other countries shows that divorce leads to more households – so more land…
10. Dusting9. Clearing clutter8. Folding laundry7. Cleaning bathtubs and showers6. Clearing out fridge5. Cat barf4. Pots & pans3. Bleaching underwear2. Cat litter boxTo find out Phil's #1 worst household chore and to read his full post, click here.Question: What do you consider to be the…
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter sat down for an interview with AP reporter John Miller yesterday, and said he’s ready to ask for higher fees for car owners to fund needed road improvements, now that the ITD has supplied him with detail on how it can…
Kathy Plonka/Spokesman-ReviewFormer tug boat captain Forrest Schmeling is seen through the condensation on a window of the Florence Lee tug boat while docked at North Idaho Maritime in Coeur d'Alene on Wednesday. He retired on November 8 after working at the job since 1975. Story…
Consumers decide if the product provides enough value to justify that price. No one is compelled to buy a newspaper that doesn’t meet their needs. Because we’re a mass market product, each individual brings a different calculation to the price/value equation. We provide a vastly…
The S-R's post-layoff newsroom reorganization was announced last night. The sad revelation from where I sit is that Jim Kershner no longer will be writing his weekly column. Quite often, Jim's column is the flat-out funniest piece in the paper all week. I believe he's…
Item: Crosses to be removed from police chaplain badges/Karen Dorn Steele, Spokesman-ReviewMore Info: Crosses will be removed from badges worn by Spokane Police chaplains under terms of an out-of-court settlement between the city and a former Lutheran pastor-turned-atheist who sued over the government agency’s use…
Jim Cole/AP PhotoLeeland Eisenberg talks about strapping a fake bomb to himself and taking people hostage at the Rochester, N.H. campaign office of Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, during an interview from the Strafford County Jail in Dover, N.H., Tuesday.
Idaho Escapee: I'm not saying these two religions are wrong. This country advocates freedom of religion, and I don't care what someone believes. But, when either Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses come to my door, trying to recruit me into their religion, I just tell them,…
Dennis Hinrichsen: I have Googled the 'Gang of Four' with little success. Were you ridinghigh as a Press reporter at that time? I wonder what Sander's beach bathers think of Fromm's Save Our Shoreline ticket. I did locate two sites of interest, thought I admit…
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.
