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TUESDAY, JULY 29, 2008

Wild Card/Tuesday -- 7/29/08

We have Art on the Green dead ahead this weekend and Julyamsh in the rear-view mirror -- not that I'm a big fan of Art on the Green. I hate to be a heretic here. But I don't enjoy massive crowds and overpriced artsy stuff.…

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Headlines @ Closin' Time -- 7/29/08

Kerri Thoreson/OnLocation North Idaho"A beautiful bride deserves a beautiful backdrop and the Hayden Lake Country Club fills the bill," posts Kerri Thoreson/OnLocation North Idaho. "The historic club is 101 years old this month, opened on the site by Spokane and Inland Empire Railroad as the…

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Courthouse Peeper Pleads Guilty

A federal security guard who watched women undress through the lens of a security camera atop the U.S. Courthouse complex in downtown Spokane pleaded guilty Tuesday to felony voyeurism. Darin Earl Wanless’ agreement with prosecutors called for the 33-year-old high school graduate to plead guilty…

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Singer Ted Nugent Makes PF Pizza Stop

Sunday night my first son-in-law, father of my first two grandsons, stopped in at the Post Falls’ New York Pizza to discover Ted Nugent having pizza with his family. Ted was nice enough to sign a pizza box for my #1 grandson, absent from the…

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Local Blogs: Sticker Shock -- Simple Mind

Remember The Roxy/OrangeTVAt Remember The Roxy, OrangeTV offers this 1950s shot of downtown Kellogg and other new posts of old places here.Sticker Shock: The King and I went grocery shopping. We went to get our staples so to speak. Meaning those things you buy fairly…

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It's My 2 Cents: Higher Education

I appreciate the fact that high school graduates are jamming next year's freshman classes at UI, WSU, Gonzaga and other colleges in the Northwest. Higher education was my ticket out of the hum-drum life on a dairy and subsequent job as a grocery store clerk.…

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Richert: R's Ignore Blogosphere To Own Peril

I can understand why Republican veterans such as Risch are suspicious of the blogosphere — and not just when a mischievous blogger fits Risch with a goofy gnome's cap. The Idaho blogosphere leans clearly to the left. But Republicans dismiss this medium at their peril.…

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Breaking! Alaska Sen. Stevens Indicted

Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator and a figure in Alaska politics since before statehood, has been indicted on seven counts of falsely reporting hundreds of thousands of dollars in services he received from a company that helped renovate his home/Seattle PI. More here.

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Company Explains 'Wrong Larry' Button

“We did nothing wrong in the design of the Barack Obama button that mistakenly featured a photo of Larry Craig. When our designer sat down to make this button, he positioned his mouse pointer over a photo of Larry LaRocco. This particular designer uses a…

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Seattle Adopts Grocery Bag Fee

Item: City OKs 20-cent fee on plastic, paper bags: Council also outlaws foam food and drink containers/Seattle PIMore Info: Seattle became on Monday one of the first major American cities to discourage the use of paper and plastic shopping bags by requiring grocery, drug and…

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WND Poll: Wikipedia's Suicide Instructions

Question: What do you think of Wikipedia publishing suicide instructions?/WorldNetDaily1. Suicide is everyone's right. Wikipedia is therefore providing a public service 2. It's Wikipedia's First Amendment right to publish anything it wants 3. With the growth of the right-to-die movement, it's just providing necessary, how-to…

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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.