If you're wondering what happens to the comment numbers on many of today's posts, you can find Blogmeister Ryan's explanation here. Basically, it sounds like the techs have given the software a bit of an enema to make things go faster and that resulted in…
A child holds a panda doll in Rome's Piazza del Popolo square Saturday. The World Wide Fund for Nature environmental association placed 1600 paper pulp pandas, symbolizing the last pandas still present in nature, on the square. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)SR's Today In PhotosQuestion: Did…
In warm April sunwhile birds sweetly sing,look-- on that tulip --the first slug of spring. The Bard of Sherman Avenue
There are a few former classmates I've requested to be friends with. But for the most part, I've shunned my fellow MPHS alumni. The shunning part is true of one facebook member (who I won't name... in case any of my friends are friends with…
In this August 2008 file photo by Jesse Tinsley, Susan Nipp stands in the Plaza Shoppes. She has written a childrens book, "Mudgy & Millie", about Coeur d'Alene, interweaving a hike around Tubbs Hill and downtown Coeur d'Alene, which will be marked, in real life,…
Porterhouse sits on the throne after being crowned the winner of the 30th Drake Relays Beautiful Bulldog Contest on Monday in Des Moines, Iowa. The bulldog is owned by Kevin and Erin Bell, of Des Moines, Iowa. The pageant kicks off the Drake Relays festivities…
5:19 p.m. R/P reports 18 males involved in a scrape @ PF skate park, including a 17YO w/a T-shirt message that reads: "I (Heart) PF."4:59 p.m. 2 individuals are playing "chicken" w/trains @ Atlas & Camrose Lane.4:21 p.m. Gas is leaking from a 1996 Jeep…
Kage Mann & Dan of the County have both noticed that the comment counter is on the fritz. You'll notice a bunch of goose eggs on posts (like the one for APhoto of the Day) when there are a number of comments in the thread…
You can see the protest message that this little plane was sending to Washington legislators earlier today by clicking Rich Roesler's Eye On Olympia link here.
I don’t look it – see me next yearI am healthy (mostly)I am contentI am mature (something I am extremely grateful for – no more hot emotions, no more being jealous or petty; just nice calm maturity)However, I can be cranky if I want to.…
You can see what the dogs at Marianne Love's Lovestead are looking at and find out a little about girdles by clicking here.Once Upon A Time (with original water color)/TumblewordsOur tiny home/Synaptic Disunions60 reasons I'm excited about being 60/Nuts & NonsenseI'm killing our planet/Dogwalk MusingsSpokane…
3 big plastic bottles2 small plastic bottles6 candy wrapers5 plastic bags 76 cans (76!!!) 1 un-opened beer - (next time please leave it in bucket with ice and lime on the side)2 beer bottles1 cd1 piece of carpet.. (jeez!)More from Pecky Cox/As The Lake Churns…
Demonstrators against animal research march during protests on both sides of the heated debate over animal research have gathered at the University of California, Los Angeles, Wednesday. The rallies follow this week's unsealing of an indictment of two animal rights activists on charges of stalking…
The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee has canceled its meeting that had been scheduled for 8 a.m. tomorrow. “House leadership requested that we postpone our meeting until perhaps Monday,” said Senate Finance Chairman Dean Cameron, R-Rupert. “We will make our decision later, but we will not be…
I became the man of the hour a couple of months ago when I scored tickets to a Jimmy Buffett concert in California. See, my wife is more than a fan of Buffett and his rum-soaked "gulf and western" sound; she's a Parrothead with a…
Gov. Chris Gregoire today signed into law House Bill 1596, which declares that the right of a mother to breastfeed her child in public places is a civil right protected by Washington’s anti-discrimination law. “This new law will eliminate one more obstacle that women are…
This view from the patio at the Coeur d'Alene Visitor Center sums up how North Idahoans feel when the sun comes out. This week the temperature reached 80 degrees, a preview of what's just down the road for summer!/Councilwoman KerriT, OnLocation North Idaho.Cartoon: More money,…
An eastern Idaho judge who lost patience with the disruptive behavior of a defendant ordered court officials to tape the man's mouth shut with duct tape during a court hearing. The unusual move was ordered by 6th District Judge Peter D. McDermott during a probation…
Duane Nellis (seen speaking at a public forum on the UI campus Feb. 3), a native of the Northwest and Kansas State University provost, has been named president of the University of Idaho. The state Board of Education made the announcement Wednesday during a meeting…
An encounter that involved a sheriff’s detective flashing a barista at a drive-up coffee stand has led to a new state law that Spokane County will use to expand the volunteer panel that overturned the detective’s firing. It took nearly three years, an act of…
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Councilman MikeK: I raised the issue last night about researching and pursuing a different designation for Tubbs Hill - perhaps a historic landmark site, a nature preserve, something that would distinguish it from any other “city park”. I don't know what that process is as…
In his column, Leonard Pitts contends that the nation has changed rather than First Lady Michelle Obama. As a reminder, he points back to the campaign when some viewed her as "a fire-snorting amalgam of Angela Davis and Sister Souljah ... a militant, terrorist fist-bumping…
“You have to respect and cherish certain things,” Councilman Ron Edinger said in leading the vote against the proposal by Coeur d’Alene’s ROW Adventures. “Tubbs Hill and McEuen Field are two of those things”/Alison Boggs, SR. Story here.
Wow. All the votes have been counted. 74.11 percent of 9,010 voters approved. That's 6,677 yes and 2,333 no, with seven spoiled ballots. (hanging chads?) All 19 polling places passed the levy, along with the absentee ballots. Largest approval was 87 percent of 391 voters…
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.
