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TUESDAY, FEB. 27, 2007

Wild Card/Tuesday -- 2/27/07

For some reason, we're running those dang Google ads again in the thread below -- and they're blocking the ability of Mac/Safari users to access anything below them on this site. I've asked the SR powers that be to remove them, once and for all,…

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Ah'm Your Huckleberry

The three Kootenai County Commissioners were looking quite dapper today at their 2 p.m. public meeting, all wearing ties. Piazza had on a green shirt and green tie. Currie had on a black shirt with a red tie. Tondee had on a maroon shirt with…

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APhoto of the Day -- 2/27/07

Eva Daniels, 7, turns her face as she braces herself for a snowball thrown by her brother, Nicholas, 10, during a snowball fight Monday in Beaver Dam, Wis. The wet snow made for ideal snowball fight and snowman building conditions/Cory Schaefer, AP Photo/Beaver Dam Daily…

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BC Bee: Bonner County Is Way Cool

Bonner County already is a pretty special place to live -- friendly people, beautiful spaces and enough items in the plus column to fill the paper 10 times over. Yet, recent news will only serve to make a great place even better. The chance to…

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Huckleberries Best of the INorthwest -- 2/27/07

A moose calf stands alongside a driveway in Indian Meadows in urban Coeur d'Alene waiting for his mother. The pair have been spotted around the northwest Coeur d'Alene neighborhood since mid-January/Kerri Thoreson, www.fyinorthidaho.com.Leaning Straight Up: Who is the real Al Gore? Statesman or politician, environmentalist…

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Q: Should College Teachers Spout Views Ad Nauseum?

Issue: Republican student wants NIC refund: Complaints stem from instructor's comments/Meghann M. Cuniff, Spokesman-ReviewMore Info: Linda Cook, a former aide to the late Idaho Congressman Helen Chenoweth and a longtime GOP supporter, withdrew last week from an entry-level English class taught by part-time instructor Jessica…

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Question: Does Idaho Need Minimum Day-Care Regs

Issue: Panel rejects day-care rules: House committee limits supporters; 2 members suggest mothers stay home/Betsy Russell, Spokesman-ReviewQuote: "It's gut-wrenching for me," Rep. Tom Loertscher, R-Iona, said before the 6-5 vote against the bill. "What can we do to keep mom at home?" Loertscher said he…

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AM Hucks: Her Leadership Style? "Serious Babage"

Mayor Sandi Bloem's a – what? A hottie? A coupla guys from Huckleberries Online are impressed with the Coeur d'Alene's sixtysomething mayor's fashion sense and "serious babage." It started Monday when I mentioned that Her Sandiness had summoned Dan Gookin for a heart-to-heart talk about…

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Huckleberries Online

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.