A coupla things in the news this afternoon worth mentioning: Boeing has announced plans to cut 10,000 jobs here. Starbucks will cut 6,700 jobs, close 300 more stores here. House Republicans led a successful move to stop a delay in the switch to digital TV…
Kevin Vandeventer, 35, works out Tuesday at Gold’s Gym in north Spokane in preparation for the 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Boise in February. He will compete in cross-country skiing. Meanwhile, the Special Olympics Torch will arrive in Coeur d'Alene by boat at…
I asked the checkstand girl at Petersons (former IGA) the other morning if she'd heard any dirt on what was going on across Sherman Ave., in the remains of the old China Gate Restaurant, which was badly damaged in a fire last year that killed…
Hundreds of small cells of would-be terrorists exist throughout the United States. They travel under various names—Ku Klux Klan, National Socialist Movement, Vinlander Social Club, American National Socialist Workers Party, World Wide Church of the Creator, National Alliance, White Aryan Resistance, National Vanguard. To the…
Gonzaga University students decorate their tents as they wait in line for seats to the Gonzaga/St. Mary's basketball game on Thursday evening. Dan Pelle/SR.Minnick, Simpson against stimulus package that passes 244-188/Idaho StatesmanStatesman takes on Boise TV stations/PR Musings WeblogRichert: Idaho one of only 5 red…
Animal rights activists from PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and AnimaNaturalis stage a naked protest in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)Top Cutlines:1. Everything was fine till Millie ran into her old school friend Billy and realized he…
A list of the inmates currently incarcerated @ the Kootenai County Jail can be read here.4:48 p.m. At the railroad crossing at Prairie & McGuire/Post Falls, the lights are flashing and the arms are down. But there's no train in sight. Cars are driving around…
At Vox Box, Blogmistress Erin Daniels tells of a flap on the University of Washington campus, triggered by a pro-con debate re: gay marriage in the college newspaper. You can read the pro-con arguments (take particular note of the cartoons that ran with them) here.…
Don Burnett, University of Idaho law school dean who has pushed to develop a three-year law program in Boise.Ham Shirvani, president of Cal State Stanislaus, in Turlock, Calif.Larry Penley, former president of Colorado State University.Duane Nellis, Kansas State University provost.David Dooley, Montana State University president.AP/Statesman…
This image provided by Madame Tussauds shows senior sculptor Colin Jackson working on a clay head mold of first lady Michelle Obama at Merlin Studios in London. The clay molds are a crucial step in the up to six month-long figure creation process. The full…
I was making dinner the other night and needed to open a can of olives. As I watched the can spin around on my electric can opener, I realized that I had received that can opener as a wedding gift. 16 1/2 years ago. I…
It may not have grabbed the limelight with the same pizzazz as the rest of the hoopla at the 56th quadrennial inauguration, but Riley Creek Lumber Company's logo received worldwide visibility shortly before Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United…
I’m the first to admit it’s a crappy beard. There are a few bald patches here and there. I was not blessed with the hirsute gene. I know guys who could grow a full beard over a three day weekend. But for someone like me,…
A phenomenon known as "light pillars" spreads across the night sky over Victor, Idaho, on Monday. The colorful columns form when light from the ground reflects off flat snow crystals descending through very cold air. (AP Photo / Jackson Hole News&Guide, Bradly J. Boner) Cartoon:…
EJS (re: MikeK sez Bris rather than Circ-Word): Being a male I ask the rest of the males in here: Who better to do a prostate exam, a man or woman doctor? And to the women, a male for female OBGYN?Sisyphus: I have a very…
North Idaho College, which had its budget hearing before JFAC this morning, had been hoping for $605,100 next year to start up a much-needed dental hygienist program in partnership with a local free clinic, and $334,500 for the first year of a two-year campus technology…
Democratic Rep. Walt Minnick will vote against the economic stimulus bill later today, Minnick spokesman John Foster said a few minutes ago. A vote is expected later today. Republican Rep. Mike Simpson has said he will also vote against the bill/Kevin Richert, Idaho Statesman.Question: Do…
Mensch is Yiddish for a good person, and that's what I found author John Updike to be when I interviewed him on the phone a few years ago. Updike died (Tuesday) at the age of 76. I read a memoir he wrote in which he…
Item: Local athletes heading to world stage in Boise: Special Olympics games include snowboarding, skating/Mike Prager, SRMore Info: The Olympic flame, which was lit in Athens, Greece, in November, arrives in Coeur d’Alene on Thursday for its final journey to Boise.Question: Are you planning to…
Item: Avista rates face appeal: Attorney general targets increases that started Jan. 1/John Stucke, SRMore Info: Washington’s attorney general has appealed a sharp increase in Avista power bills and aims to unravel the company’s plan to collect an extra $112 million from businesses and residential…
Kootenai County firefighters wait to clear the scene of a minor-injury accident in the eastbound lanes of Interstate-90 near Highway 41 in Post Falls, Idaho following a short, but havoc-causing freezing rainfall that caused dozens of accidents Tuesday between Stateline and Coeur d'Alene. Story here.…
Iraqi policemen hold up their ink-stained fingers after casting their vote in the country's provincial elections in Baghdad, Iraq, earlier today. The polls opened Wednesday for members of the Iraqi security forces, detainees and hospital patients. General voting is scheduled on Saturday. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
Item: Assertive Idaho bank manager talks bank robbers into surrendering: 2 masked men call Luwana Couch 'ma'am'/Idaho StatesmanQuestion: Would you try to reason with a bank robber? Yes? No? Don't know?
Wasn't I skinny? Wasn't I moody? I didn't actually smile from the ages of 15 until 19. The car to the right is the family's truckster of the time a massive 1973 Ford Country Deeded Landowner station wagon. It had a 500 cubic inch something…
On his Facebook page, Councilman MikeK couldn't bring himself to say the Circ-Word when referring to the medical procedure that baby son Ronan endured recently. So he called it a Bris -- the Jewish word for the circumcision ceremony. Which prompted an SR colleague to…
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.
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