With newspapers across the country shrinking, dying and staring at bankruptcy, is the Spokesman-Review on its way out? Depends which Spokesman-Review you're talking about, says Smith. In his sixth year as editor, Smith says that while they haven't been hit as hard by the pressures…
43rd State Blues interviews HBO regular commenter ThomG, who doubles as a Demo party poohbah in this part of the state.*Sen. McCain's message problem/Arch Druid*Obtuse observations/Atmospheric Ruminations*Bayview Daze parade winners/Bay Views*Why would an 8-year-old need a statin?/Dogwalk Musings*Changing of our 'hood/From A Simple Mind*I laughed…
4:43 p.m. Sailboat lying on its side 200 to 300 yards off City Beach.2:45 p.m. Resident in the 800 block of Bancroft complains that door-to-door salesmen selling magazines are busy in the southern part of Coeur d'Alene.11:38 a.m. 5 males in a white pickup are…
Isaac Brekken/AP File PhotoMiss Washington Elyse Umemoto, standing left, and Miss Texas Molly Hazlett, standing right, watch as their fellow contestants drop and do push-ups during an elimination at the Miss America 2008 at Planet Hollywood hotel and casino in Las Vegas on Saturday. Now,…
Ex-Zag Ronny Turiaf might be on the move. The Riverside Press-Enterprise reported that Turiaf has agreed to a four-year, $17 million offer from Golden State/Jim Meehan, Sportslink. More here.
Going-away parties for university presidents must be one of those areas where the public and private sectors operate under different definitions. Fourteen grand (for UI president Tim White's going-away party) might be a mere drop in the bucket when it comes to such a party,…
Doug Lindley/Idaho State Journal, APThese boys walk back for another run down the Portneuf River on their tubing adventure in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, Monday afternoon.Oil Industry Voice: The most powerful Idahoan you've never heard of is no stranger to difficult causes. Jack Gerard is…
A bank of electrical panels at Stimson Lumber in Hauser, Idaho caught fire early Wednesday morning. It broke out around 6 a.m. in the 16,000 block of west Prairie Avenue. There were employees at the lumber mill at the time of the fire, but officials…
Courtesy of Norma MabbuttThe condition of 3-year-old abuse victim Kyra Wine of St. Maries (right, with her sister Amanda, 6, last fall) has been upgraded to satisfactory. Ralph Bartholdt/St. Maries Gazette-Record provides the latest update on Kyra's condition here.*Idaho Records/SR*Bonner County officials ID shooting suspect,…
Item: RV lovers forced to change their ways: High gas prices keep some Life on Wheels attendees at home; others find inventive ways to pay for excursions/Joel Mills, Lewiston TribuneMore Info: He said attendance is about one-third that of last year's conference. At its peak,…
Rick Rycroft/AP PhotoSteve Maxwell wears an "Annoying T-shirt" during a protest in Sydney Wednesday to mock a law banning people from annoying those gathered for the Pope's visit later this month. New regulations give police and emergency services workers the power to order anyone to…
Item: George W. Bush loves his German asparagus/Jim Camden, Spokesman-ReviewMore Info: Democratic Sen. Patty Murray and Republican Rep. Doc Hastings engaged in a bit of bipartisan asparagus boosting when they heard about the president’s praise of German shoots. When Bush got back from Europe, they…
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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.
