Sometimes, I wonder if I should post the Wild Card sooner in the day, for busy people like Beth Bollinger, who have links to post but have to be somewhere else by the time 10:30 (usual Wild Card post time) rolls around. For Beth's sake,…
President Barack Obama presents the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom to Chita Rivera, who, as a Puerto Rican-American, broke barriers as an actress, singer and dancer to become a Broadway star in West Side Story and was the first Hispanic woman to receive a Kennedy…
Fill in the blank ... everything is my father's fault ... or my mother's fault. Which is what you hear young adults and some times mid-life adults say. The truth of the matter is ... everything that happens to you between the ages of 0…
Left to right: Itsy Johnson, Tillie Torpey, and Destiny Allen load school supplies into backpacks Wednesday morning at the Rosecreek Longhouse in Worley. Story here.Corridor Design Meeting Thursday: The Mayors’ Institute on City Design (MICD) architects and planners will present to the public their recommendations…
From left, models Alessandra Ambrosio, Lindsay Ellingson, Marisa Miller and Emanuela de Paula help Victoria's Secret celebrate the 10-year anniversary of 'The Body By Victoria Collection' on Tuesday in New York. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)Top Cutlines:1. Uh, Dave, I know you just…
6:00 p.m. Woman wants officer assistance after putting man under citizen's arrest for leaving his dogs in a parked vehicle @ Fred Meyer's. 5:30 p.m. Officer wonders if nearby construction is causing traffic lights @ H41 & Poleline to malfunction.4:43 p.m. Standing water is creating…
Beau Henneman, 5, chews on a piece of banana bread while attending a gathering at Colville City Park with his mother, Jamie, today. Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers addressed a crowd on health care reform. (Dan Pelle/SR)Question: Which would you rather do -- chew banana bread…
"I am launching a second blog!" posts Wayward Episcopalian. "Wayward will remain my personal and religious blog, but Blue Moose Democrat is now my political depot. For the next week or two, I will probably make political posts on both, but after that don't expect…
Item: Audit: Planned Parenthood overbilled Medicaid: Review also faults clinic’s drug distribution practices/John Stucke, SRMore Info: Planned Parenthood of the Inland Northwest required unnecessary office visits by its poorest patients, a practice that led to excessive payments from the taxpayer-financed Medicaid program, according to a…
At Remember The Roxy, OrangeTV provides a photo of the Great American Restaurant that later became -- if my memory is correct -- Woody McEvers' former Ruster's Roost building @ H95 and Hayden. You can see other vintage photos of the area here.
Moscow Minidoka: How about “As soon as DFO is online in the morning,” be that 9 am, 8:35 am, or 7 am. Many of us are mostly morning-birds for HBO, and it'd probably see action no matter HOW early it was up. But I agree…
Item: AAA says summer is the deadliest time for teen drivers/KHQMore Info: More than 5000 teenagers are killed in car crashes every year, and AAA says this time of year is especially deadly. Monday, four Washington teenagers died and a fifth was critically injured in…
Item: Butte considers curfew changes to keep young teens off the streets/MissoulianMore Info: Efforts are afoot in Butte-Silver Bow to simplify the curfew laws here to combat vandalism, keep young teens off the streets - and make it easier for law enforcement to bust violators.…
Nick Arthun of North Wind Construction makes his way up a hill during construction at East Mission Flats in Cataldo on Tuesday. The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality purchased land in East Mission Flats over the past three years for a repository that will hold…
An afternoon of hanging out on Tubbs Hill in Coeur d'Alene turned into a nightmare for one Spokane Valley teen when he was attacked a man wielding a hatchet. Keelan Babinski, 17, of Spokane Valley headed out to Tubbs Hill to go cliff diving and…
Glenn Donnellan, of the National Symphony Orchestra, performs The Star Spangled Banner on a violin made from a Louisville Slugger baseball bat before a baseball game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Washington Nationals Saturday in Washington. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)Question: Do you prefer violin…
11:57 a.m. R/P reports that a motorist drove away from Super 1/Kathleen w/o strapping his small child into a restraint.11:53 a.m. Injured animal reported @ Lincoln Way & Harrison.10:33 a.m. An "extremely high" man with long hair and black jeans is walking bare-chested along Conkling…
Guys who are so successful at comedy typically have a hard time transitioning to anything even slightly more serious. Which is why I was hesitant about seeing “Funny People.” First of all, “Funny People” stars Adam Sandler, who is always a questionable asset to a…
Imagine three vacant lots languishing untended for many years. Picture 100-year-old oak trees towering forlornly among the weeds. Some might see these overgrown lots in Coeur d’Alene and envision homes or maybe an apartment building. Not Kim Normand. Her vision was rows of carrots, tomatoes…
In this June 2002 SR file photo by Dan Pelle, Glenn Frey and Don Henley of the Eagles belt out "New Kid in Town" for the crowd at the Spokane Arena Sunday evening. A new poll by the Pew Research Center examining the generation gap…
Now it is always fashionable to jump and shout and gripe about ignorant politicians, but this time some of them have really earned the label. And continue to do so every day. We’ve all seen them yammering on and on. Recounting, like so many trained…
President Barack Obama embraces new Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor in the East Room of the White House in Washington Wednesday, during a reception in her honor. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
The men about town in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho want to be fabulous. You can tell from their bare chests, draped in button-downs unbuttoned past their pecs. You can tell from the wingspans of their long-sleeved crew-necks, illustrated with flowers and encrusted with rhinestones. You can…
Item: Cd'A seeks 2 percent property tax hike: City hopes to raise $300K as part of lower budget/Tom Hasslinger, PressMore Info: The city of Coeur d'Alene wants to increase its property tax revenue by 2 percent, even though this year's budget will be lower than…
Tuesday, the Timberlake Fire Protection District was dispatched to a grass fire at 1724 E Shoshone Avenue in Athol. The property owners were burning household trash in a burn barrel, an ember escaped and ignited the field on fire. Story here.Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SRUmbrella weather…
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.