Item: Officials present jail bond proposal: County commissioners say taxpayers will not be put in a pinch by plan/Tom Greene, Coeur d'Alene PressMore Info: Even with the national economic meltdown, Kootenai County Commissioner Todd Tondee believes conservative sales tax projections will keep taxpayers from getting…
Question: How will the controversy over Gwen Ifill's pro-Obama book affect the vice-presidential debate?/WorldNetDaily1. It won't affect it at all -- Ifill is the consummate professional2. It will be a non-issue in the debate -- Ifill's book has been discussed for months3. The extra spotlight…
Editor Steve Smith of the Spokesman-Review announced a "deep and devastating" staff cut at a newsroom meeting this afternoon. Twenty-one newsroom employees and four to six managers will lose their jobs in two or three weeks as part of a companywide reduction in force. He…
After the news this afternoon about the biggest newsroom layoff in an almost decade of newsroom layoffs, I'm simply going to post this Wild Card and go home ...
Item: PBS’ Ifill dismisses questions of partisanship: Moderator plans to release a book on inaugaration day touting Obama/APMore Info: Ifill said Wednesday that she hasn’t even written her chapter on Obama for the book “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama,” which…
5:58 p.m. R/P in a CDA apartment complex reports that the sprinkler system has gone off, and water is running over her back porch.3:37 p.m. Smoldering fire, possibly started by arsonist, @ Maplewood & Cedar/Post Falls needs to be wet down further.3:09 p.m. R/P reports…
Idaho's senators are preparing for tonight's vote on a $700 billion bailout plan for Wall Street. We learned this morning that one is for the new version of the bill, and one is still undecided. Senator Mike Crapo says he still hasn’t decided how to…
Paul Sakuma/AP PhotoOakland Raiders interim head coach Tom Cable smiles during football practice at Raiders headquarters in Alameda, Calif., today. Cable is filling in after the Raiders fired head coach Lane Kiffin on Tuesday. (Steve Crump's column in Twin Falls Times-News re: ex-Idaho coaches in…
I do need to sit down and plan my garden for next year, not to mention get my spaces cleaned up before the weather gets too icky. I have found a sorta local source for worms for my compost bin, there is a place in…
Granati/Orangefrog76"Cat-faced spiders are beneficial to the backyard," posts Granati/Orangefrog76. "I try not to kill them if possible ... I grab the bug catcher off of the table and capture it, to magnify it and see it up close." More here.*3WW Haiku/Tumblewords*In Staples we don't trust/Atmospheric…
We have said before that conservation groups really aren’t carrying the burden of protecting wolves. Sure, it may be full-time work for them, but it is the livestock owners who actually incur the costs and the headaches of having wolves on the landscape. They should…
Kyle Mills/Lewiston Tribune, APA mixed scene of reflections surround Rick Perrigo, an installer from Clarkston Glass, as he puts the finishing touches on one of the 24 new windows going into the old Montgomery Ward building on Main Street Wednesday in Lewiston. *UMontana history prof…
Item: Ada County sees absentee ballot requests quadruple/KTVBDan of the County: I plan to put it in my future budget requests to mail an absentee ballot request form to all of our registered voters. Senator Goedde just sent out a large mailing of absentee ballot…
I think “expert” observers may have things exactly backward. They’ve been saying the market rebounded yesterday because word filtered out that “Son of Paulson” was being formulated. But why did the stock market shoot up yesterday by about 500 points, after the boondoggle bailout was…
Item: Study says panhandlers can get up to $40/hour/KREM2More Info: The city is exploring the issue of panhandling and is looking at ways to potentially curtail that activity. A city study revealed that some panhandlers can earn between $30 and $40 per hour. Despite seemingly…
Jesse Tinsley/SRJulia Harmia testifies in detail about the night she was raped by Kevin Coe in 1980 at Coe's civil commitment trial in Spokane Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008. Coe's single conviction is for his assault of Harmia. Story here.*Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SR*Harwood fights Highway 95…
Do you plan to watch the vice presidential debate Thursday night?/Idaho Statesman *Yes*No
If you can stay in Boise proper, say, west of St Al's, and if you can stay off the freeway, Boise is glorious. The old parts of town are tree-lined and gorgeous, the Foothills change color 15 times a day depending on the lighting, and…
What kind of economic rescue plan would you most like to see Congress approve? 1. The entire financial services industry needs to be nationalized by the federal government 2. The one they've turned down was just fine 3. I'm okay with the current plan, as…
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