In the news this evening: 'Britain's Got Talent' sensation Susan Boyle won't get a makeover here. The pirate hostage captain praises SEAL superheroes here. Seattle experiences a 44 percent increase in people seeking concealed-weapons permits since Obama took office here. Obama is reaching out to…
Check back around 7 o'clock, and you'll discover that white supremacists have been active again in North Idaho. They distributed leaflets like the one above. Story below (Kathy Plonka/Spokesman-Review)Many residents of a north Coeur d’Alene subdivision awoke Friday to find racist fliers on their lawns,…
Chris Claremont, award-winning author of the X-Men and Wolverine comic books and a novelist, will be make a presentation at the Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave.Claremont’s visit to Coeur d’Alene, in conjunction with the release of of the new film, “X-Men Origins:…
Dan Mitchinson, the SR/KJRB news director, spent his 40th birthday recently jumping out of an airplane from 15000 feet above Lake Wanaka in New Zealand. E-mails Dan: "I made it to the ground. ... so I guess I'll get to celebrate my 41st after all!"Bonner…
5:01 p.m. R/P has been following driver in a grey Honda who's driving erratically and flipping off other motorists, from the freeway onto Seltice Way and now Poleline/PF.4:34 p.m. A juvenile and an adult, possibly the teen's father, are trying to hang each other in…
Ostriches seen at an ostrich farm in Hohenfelde at the Baltic Sea, northern Germany, on Thursday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Heribert Proepper)Top Cutlines:1. I'm going to sing “I dreamed a dream” from Les Miserables/Pecky.2. What hard-working Americans look like to the liberal media after…
OTV continues to find interesting ways to enliven his Get Out! North Idaho blog. Recently, he resurrected a feature that focuses on odd finds at local thrift stores, including the bizarre note above that he discovered "tucked in back cover of 70's kids' picture book…
April 17 was the date of my car accident. Three years ago. It seems like a dream sometimes. Like it didn't really happen. Or like it was a scene in a book I read or movie I saw. Those few seconds of rolling over and…
In the famous word of Homer Simpson, "D'oh!" I didn't realize that Councilwoman KerriT had dozens of photos from the Coeur d'Alene Tea Party gathering at Independence Point. She has some great shots of the crowd, speakers, tax tossers on a boat, and even a…
This week, our youngest turned two years old. I still don't think we've got this whole parent thing licked yet...some days it still gets the better of me and I feel like it's too difficult to carry on, some days I don't want to carry…
In this Nov. 18, 2008, file photo, Bob Macdonald (cq) and his dog Jake (third from right) visit with other dogs of all breeds at the Gateway Park at Stateline. Macdonald and others hope to have a dog park of their own in Coeur d'Alene.…
As some of you are aware, former SR political cartoonist Milt Priggee has joined Pulitzer Prize winner David Horsey to give the online Seattle P-I quite a one-two punch on the cartooning front. You can read about my old Editorial Page buddy's new adventure here.…
The 10-month-long search for a UI president has been unsuccessful, with the top two candidates and another secondary candidate dropping out earlier this year. Terrell pledged the position will be filled by the end of the school year on May 15. He declined to answer…
Action must now be taken quickly and with conclusive results, lest other nests of brigands are bred. Absent ship owners arming their crews or outfitting vessels with professional gun crews, one immediate solution would be to create an international exclusion in shipping lanes off the…
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This image provided by the Utah Highway Patrol shows the dog tags Neo was wearing when he was found Thursday. Neo, was wearing the same harness and name tag shown in photos recovered from the crashed SUV of Joyce Moore of Kelso, Wash. Moore was…
Review: Review: '17 Again': Light in substance, the movie doesn't support heavyweight stars Zac Efron, Matthew Perry/L.A. Times.More Info: The movie, which makes high school seem only slightly less grim than "Lord of the Flies," tries to deal with teen sexuality and social pressures, but…
To part with friends mustever sadden:good luck and thank you,big John Madden. The Bard Of Sherman Avenue
I've been trying to get a good handle on the size of the Lake City Tea Party crowd @ Independence Point Saturday. At OpenCDA.com, Mary Souza said security estimated the crowd @ 1300 to 1500. MamaJD figured 800 to 1000. Her father, who has a…
Don Bain can keep an eye on his detached shop (reflected in sliding door) from his back porch in Spokane Valley, Wash., where he says squatters have moved into the shop and refuse to leave. He was surprised when he was told by police that…
I am attempting to rehabilitate former pasture on my property here in Pend Oreille County and return it to a meadow/grass/shrub condition. Columbian Ground Squirrels would help to maintain the meadow condition and prevent woody invasion, but the state Department of Fish and Wildlife has…
The so-called silent majority stood up on Tax Day. They took time off of work or closed up their shops or got up off their couches. They made signs expressing beliefs and frustrations, donned their best patriotic gear and drove down to Independence Point to…
Humor is hard to find on today's economic scene, as unemployment lines grow longer and investment asset reports grow shorter. But thanks to some of President Obama's critics on the right, there is the allegation that Obama is turning the United States toward socialism. What…
Alexis Olson, an English, political science, and international studies major with a Spanish minor, "tags" steps out front of the Student Union Building Thursday afternoon. Tag Day is designed to raise student awareness about the monetary impact donors have. Story here. Nick Groff/ArgonautIdaho Records/Sherry Adkins,…
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.
