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MONDAY, MAY 5, 2008

Boise cracks down on door-to-door sales

Four more out-of-state residents were arrested in the Boise area Saturday for illegal solicitation as local police agencies say they plan to actively enforce licensing requirements for door-to-door salespeople this summer./The Idaho Statesman - More hereQuestion: How do you react when sales people come to…

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Eye on Boise: Break-in at LaRocco campaign HQ

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Larry LaRocco’s campaign headquarters in Boise was broken into over the weekend, but apparently nothing was stolen. The campaign reported that Boise Police are investigating the break-in, which occurred mid-day, just past noon on Saturday. “We will not know whether this…

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Interesting find from AP: Bionic Beak

ST. MARIES, Idaho (AP) _ She has been named Beauty, though this eagle is anything but.Part of Beauty's beak was shot off several years ago, leaving her with a stump that is useless for hunting food. A team of volunteers is working to attach an…

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Ahrens: GOP taking dominance for granted

Former IACI head and former Idaho Statesman political editor Steve Ahrens, in a column in the Idaho Business Review today, takes on the closed primary election issue. “Republicans have dominated state politics for so long, they’ve come to take for granted their “majority” (compared 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.