Today is the 168th day of 2009. There are 197 days left in the year. On this day in history: In 1972, President Richard M. Nixon's eventual downfall began with the arrest of five burglars inside Democratic national headquarters in Washington, D.C.'s Watergate complex. Singer…
Cirque Du Soleil employees walk on stilts in Orlando, Fla, on Tuesday. Cirque Du Soleil was trying to set a world record for stilt walking at the Orlando location as well as their other locations in Montreal, Las Vegas, New York, Brazil, China, Japan and…
"I am a back door man," Howlin' Wolf first sang in 1961, and though he was singing about sneaking in the back door of his lover's house while her husband was gone away, he could have been referring to the many wonderful exits that go…
JBelle: I am going to try to relieve myself from separation; abandon my monastic instincts and practices for a few moments. A few soon moments. I will swim, swim!, in Lake Coeur d'Alene on my birthday, just as I did as a little kid. And…
Frum Helen Back reports @ Hauser Thoughts that hubby, Dave, didn't know there was a fawn in this photo until he got home and looked at the pictures. More here.Additional photos released of Zips/Shell station robber/SREx-Coug Leaf arrested by customs officers at Canadian border/APIdaho state…
Let's try again with the cutline contest: Sierra Rawson, 5, of Canton, Ill., drinks from a fountain at the Gateway Building on the riverfront in Peoria, Ill., on Tuesday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Peoria Journal Star, Ron Johnson)Top Cutlines:1. Little Sierra gets a taste…
5:27 p.m. Lights are malfunctioning @ Northwest Boulevard & Seltice Way.5:06 p.m. Lights @ H95 & Orchard are flashing red as a result of lightning strike but no one is paying attention to them.5 p.m. Male trying to pull female out of white van near…
Idaho Dad tells you about this Farragut State Park photo in his Wordless Wednesday post today on A Family Runs Through It here.Casa Cox hit by lightning here and here/As The Lake ChurnsLike you know 'texting' for $50,000/Dogwalk MusingsHow do you solve a problem like…
Looks like our colleague Phaedrus is taking on Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary and assortment of the Gookin & Co. sockpuppets at the Press site. Here he responds to a slap by Mary at Councilman Mike Kennedy's family: "Mary, Mary, Mary, there you go again! I…
Seems Coeur d'Alene Press reporter Tom Hasslinger cornered Councilman Mike Kennedy after the council hearing last night re: the commercial rezone request from North Idaho College and challenged (paraphrase): "When are you going to quit bickering with constituents?" Hasslinger was referring to Kennedy's exchange with…
Many of you were fans of Jim Hagengruber (shown at left of former photographer Brian Plonka on a C-130 en route to Baghdad to interview Hauser's Tripp twins in May 2008), the stellar former SR environmental reporter who was laid off with about half the…
This project will take many years to unfold, and that is why the C-17 was requested, so as for future elected boards to have latitude in their decisions. Remember, the Boards that will be making those decisions are elected by the residents of Kootenai Co.…
A shopper clutches a bag after leaving an Eddie Bauer store Wednesday in Seattle. Struggling mall retailer Eddie Bauer Holdings Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Wednesday but said a bidder already has agreed to keep the majority of its 371 stores open,…
The second week of my freshman year in college, I walked into Rico's Pizza Palace near campus and asked for a part-time job. Rico - who was Greek, not Italian, and roughly as wide as he was tall - looked me up and down and…
The Minuteman movement is a loose affiliation of xenophobic border vigilantes exasperated with America's immigration policies. They are the darlings of the right wing noise machine who liken their activities to the country's neighborhood watch. However, David Neiwert has been warning of the Minutemen's extremist…
A grizzly bear chews on a chunk of elk in a meadow near Fishing Bridge in Yellowstone National Park last Thursday. (AP Photo/Powell Tribune, Toby Bonner)Cartoon: So much for public health insurance/David Horsey, PIO'Mara: Transgender candidate runs for Nampa mayor/KTVBGroup critical of rape responses seeks…
Meghann Cuniff: One pet peeve about these incident writeups - the description provided is NOT of the suspect, it's of the robber - the actual culprit. No suspect has been named yet!Sgt. Christie Wood: It is my police training….in written reports we always refer to…
A new project that tracks word usage in the Congressional Record shows that the most-used word by our current senior senator, GOP Sen. Mike Crapo, in the past year was “energy,” followed by, in order, “Idahoans,” “stories,” and “prices.” For 2nd District GOP Rep. Mike…
11:55 a.m. R/P reports heavy smoke coming from his detached garage @ 420 4th/PF.11:40 a.m. Injured animal @ 3225 13th/CdA.10:42 a.m. Anonymous woman reports 3 or 4 dogs without water are tied to trees on Nikoma, a half mile off Gray Eagle/Rathdrum.10:36 a.m. Joe reports…
So why does Idaho continue to add six charter schools a year? Each represents a new layer of administration. Each drains an average of $1.3 million in state dollars from its host district. Sure, the traditional school system has fewer children to educate, but its…
Zicam Cold Remedy nasal gel is shown in Boston Tuesday. The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday said consumers should stop using Zicam Cold Remedy nasal gel and related products because they can permanently damage the sense of smell. (AP Photo/Eric Shelton)Question: Do you use…
Christie Wood (chairwoman of NIC trustee board): The mission of the college is education. We are not real estate developers. After decades of wishing we could acquire land continguous to the college and now it is finally happening, why on earth would we ever wish…
When resident Dan Gookin -- a recognized city watchdog -- raised concerns about protecting the river access for future public green space, Kennedy insisted Gookin had championed for private development on that same stretch of land before. Gookin denied Kennedy's claim. "You are so grandstanding…
Item: Corridor rezoning approved: Developers can move in near college site/Tom Hasslinger, PressMore Info: Many residents expressed their concern that giving a commercial zone next to the current residentially-zoned college campus would be giving the college -- and any potential developer -- a blank check…
"Ironman Coeur d'Alene will begin with the elite athletes spilling into Lake Coeur d'Alene en masse at 7 a.m. Sunday," reports Councilwoman KerriT/OnLocation North Idaho. "I love seeing the sea of humanity as nearly 2,000 wet-suited competitors flow like lava off of city beach into…
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.
