The Coeur d'Alene School Board will discuss a request to ban "Snow Falling On Cedars" from school reading lists, during its regular monthly meeting at about 5:40 p.m. today in the Midtown Center meeting room. Last month, the board approved committee recommendations not to ban…
We can expect Otter to outline a plan to put new money into Idaho’s highway backlog – but we’ll have to tune in to see how much it’s going to cost, and where Otter hopes to find the money. Otter is also likely to put…
Item: Focus needed on seniors' needs/Coeur d'Alene Press Editorial Board (Story here.)More Info: "... you might be inclined to assign much of the blame to Kootenai County's Board of Commissioners. We think some of that blame is absolutely warranted. The money is there -- commissioners…
What should be lawmakers’ top priority in the 2008 Legislature?/Idaho Statesman. *Fix roads*Lower taxes*Expand health care*Improve air quality*Other Related: Statesman's guide to 2008 Legislature
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I was checking out the used books in local thrift stores this afternoon -- and met an HBO blurker who approved of a coupla poetry books I found at the Youth Ranch book section ("The Mentor Book of Major American Poets" and Nikki Giovanni's "Blues…
Sue: Obama is a wonderful orator. He is fresh, and inspiring. His time is coming. Hillary's is now. I can't believe there is a woman voter out there who wouldn't support her, for her qualifications alone, but also, because it's way past time for us…
I think Bill Richardson looked the most presidential in the Democratic debates tonight and I liked his brand of change - every one of the Dems seemed to have his or her own brand. Richardson looked like the man to encourage Americans toward a better…
Charlie Neibergall/AP PhotoDemocratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks at her caucus night rally with husband former president Bill Clinton and daughter Chelsea Thursday in Des Moines, Iowa. In a presidential race where the Democratic candidates are competing as agents of change, Hillary…
How’s your New Year’s resolution going? -- Idaho Statesman*Piece of cake*Getting rough*I’ve given up*Didn't start one
Firefighters said a malfunctioning oil furnace at Ground Force Manufacturing caused a three-alarm fire and at least $700,000 in damages to the plant Friday. Jim Lyon, spokesman for Kootenai Fire and Rescue, said one Ground Force employee was taken to the hospital after suffering smoke…
The partners who proposed the funeral home across the street from the Lake City Senior Center have decided to look elsewhere for a place to put their business. "The concern of people in our community, I think, was a tipping point for both of us,"…
Item: UI professors are behind, says research group/Shawn Vestal, Spokesman-ReviewMore Info: Say the words “culture of Moscow” to anyone familiar with the northern Idaho college town, and a certain stereotype of artsy granolians is likely to emerge. But when a team of consultants hired by…
I've received word that my nephew and his wife have returned safely from a weeklong trip to Ethiopia, with their two new adopted daughters in tow, Bezi and Maya. Ages 18 months and 4 years. Dunno which is which. I'll get that straightened out this…
What kind of a relationship do you have with your neighbor? Best friends? Occasional coffee break? Over for dinner? Talks across the fence each time you both are outside? A wave or nod as you are doing yard work? Or taking the garbageto the curb?…
Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/APToilet Bowl king Justin Perschke catches an incoming roll of toilet paper while queen Bobbi Neimuth is covered with paper during the Toilet Bowl parade Tuesday in Hustisford, Wis. This is the 43rd year of the Toilet Bowl in the Dodge County…
My son and I were talking about our cat, Basil, posts Phil/A Family Runs Through It:SON: "Did Basil have a lot of other brothers?"ME: "Yes, I think he came from a litter of eight."SON: "Oh. Do you think they miss Basil?"ME: "I'm sure they don't…
Jennifer Delmonte/Daily Inter Lake, AP,Responding to his first accident serving as Flathead County's new public works director, Dave Prunty shovels gravel out of a plow that had rolled off Tronstad Road north of Kalispell, Mont., Thursday. This snowplow overturn is one of two that occurred…
A large fire broke out this morning at Ground Force, a manufacturing business in Post Falls. Smoke and flames were visible from a large warehouse on the back of the lot. The preliminary investigation indicates that a oil heating unit was involved in the fire/KREM2.…
Originally posted at 11:34 a.m.Item: Standoff looms over Fox Super Bowl: Time Warner won't carry KAYU-28 coverage/Rick Thomas, Coeur d'Alene PressMore Info: But after more than 13 months of on-and-off negotiations, that channel, KAYU-28 in Spokane, still has not returned to the Time Warner Cable…
Last night, Amy Dearest informed her mother and me that Starbucks has a new drink, one that eliminates the calories in her favorite drink and still tastes great. (She didn't say if it's less filling.) I can't remember what she said was in the drink.…
Idaho Records*Local supporters hold caucus watch parties/Erica Curless & Jim Camden, Spokesman-Review -- Erica was impressed by the turnout and energy for Barack Obama at the Kootenai County caucus.*Deputy fired first in shootout that wounded fugitive/Jody Lawrence-Turner and Thomas Clouse, Spokesman-Review -- Huckleberries is following…
" ... LaRocco's release also notes that Senator Larry Craig has been speaking at fundraisers on behalf of Jim Risch, something "mysteriously" omitted from Risch's solicitation letter"/MountainGoat Report. More here.Question: Is Risch wise/clueless to allow Larry Craig to stump for him?
It doesn't get the highest grade for location sensitivity, but a proposed new funeral home in Coeur d'Alene deserves better than the appeal filed against it recently. Aspen Funeral Home has made several headlines in this paper for seeking to operate its proposed new business…
As for PDX's points, Obama won because he was able to boost turnout to historic highs; his victory was in no way a foregone conclusion--if he'd won by a point or two you could probably point to the regional aspect, but this was a turnout…
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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