In the news this evening: Update: Ex-SR editor Steve Smith withdraws from the UOregon Daily Emerald controversy here and here. The feds launch a $75B mortgage plan to help homeowners here. Comedian Robin Williams is in intensive care with heart problems here. Demos are using…
Wrigley, a miniature dachshund, appears to have bitten off more than he can chew as he chases a ball around Brittingham Park with owner Natalie Carroll Wednesday in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal, John Maniaci) SR Today In Photos.
Six years ago Jacob Rothrock was inspired to create a just-for-fun mid-winter excuse to get together with friends to celebrate Marchstache. The only criteria to participate is risking relationships and employment by growing facial hair during the month of "Februhairy." Rothrock's friends then get creative…
These are not girls in juvie, or in trouble, just average middle school girls. I wonder what this world is going to look like in ten years, when these eleven to thirteen year olds are in their twenties. Some of the main topics we heard…
Seems the 455th Engineering Co. from the Hayden Reserve Center stirred up the far-right blogosphere Feb. 8 when heavy snow prompted them to forsake its regular exercise and march down the streets of Hayden. Someone snapped the photo above, and a Patriot site used it…
A dog barks though a hole in the wall of a hardware store decorated with a bat painting in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)Top Cutlines:1. Mary Souza spreads the word about that infamous rascal, Charlie Nipp, and the nefarious LCDC…
At OpenCDA.com, Dan Gookin takes umbrage at the audacity of Councilman Mike K to get up in the middle of a presentation by city staff to get a cup of coffee. You can read all about it here.
5:55 p.m. Car hit pedestrian @ 5th & Indiana. Pedestrian is unable to get up, complaining of back pain.4:41 p.m. A coupla high school boys are hanging out of the sunroof of a silver Saturn as it turns from Highway 41 onto I-90, headed toward…
Today marked the first time - in five straight years of trying - that the day care licensing bill has made it out of committee and to the full chamber in either house. “That’s a breakthough of sorts,” said Rep. George Sayler, D-Coeur d’Alene. The…
The threat to Idaho from invasive zebra and quagga mussels is so great, according to Rep. Eric Anderson, R-Priest Lake, that Idaho needs to enact emergency legislation right away to make every boat owner in the state purchase a sticker that’d help fund wash stations…
What am I really like? Well, I'll tell you. It's not pretty. I am the kind of person who, in real life, hides from all her high school friends on Facebook. I am ugly enough in real life to run up a credit card bill…
Wanna know what Tubbs Hill looked like during the WWI era? OrangeTV had this shot posted on his secondary Web site, Remember The Roxy, today. He explains the shot, from the 1910s, as "Coeur d'Alene Railroad Boat Dock Saw Mill @ Tubbs (Hill)." Question: When…
Question: Are you surprised by Congress' decision to pass a budget loaded with 8,500 "earmarks"?/Moscow-Pullman Daily NewsI was hoping for more fiscal restraintEarmarks will eventually help the local economyI have no faith that Congress will do the right thing
I had perhaps 10 minutes with Harvey, before scurrying back to work. Harvey had two things to impart. One: Young man, you've got an alcohol drink in one hand and a cigarette in the other. Neither is good for you. (I agreed to half, putting…
Washington’s state House of Representatives today approved House Bill 1596, which would declare that a mother’s right to breastfeed in public places is a civil right protected by the state’s anti-discrimination law. Mothers would be free to breastfeed in any public place, including restaurants, stores,…
Sue Smith holds a picture at her inlaws home near Colbert, of her husband, Rob, who was killed last Friday in a snowmobile accident. The couple's children from left are Ryan Smith, Cameron Moors, Shea Smith, Erica Cease, Sara and Emily Overfelt. Jody Lawrence-Turner SR…
My baby brother, Frito Ray, has been enlisted by Dalton Gardens Elementary to help give fifth-grade boys "the talk" this week in an event called "Boys Night Out." Ray told me this morning that he was so impressed with the film and the presentation last…
I think JimmyMAC was the one who pointed out last night that little-used Gonzaga senior Andrew Sorenson epitomized the type of Bulldog who wasn't the most talented but brought much in pride and spirit to the team. Others mentioned were David Pendergraft and Errol Knight.…
Here’s an interesting study (from the Mercatus Center of George Mason University), quantifying and ranking various aspects of freedom in 50 states (page 19 of 64 for overall ranking). Idaho comes out quite well, at #4 overall. It should also come as no real surprise…
In November, the Emerald recruited Steven A. Smith, Emerald alum and former editor in chief of The Spokesman Review in Spokane, Wash., to work as a consultant and draft a strategic plan for the future of the Emerald. In Smith's strategic plan, he recommended hiring…
This undated photo shows actress Janet Leigh in the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 classic thriller "Psycho." A British auction house says it is selling the heart-stopping score to Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho." (AP Photo/File, HO)Question: What type of horror scared you most -- the…
Item: Not enough to do? Harwood wants Idaho to declare sovereignty from federal government/Randy Stapilus, Ridenbaugh PressMore Info: The Idaho Legislature is in a slow state right now, for understandable reasons - more needs to be done on the matter of budgets and revenue before…
Whom do members of Idaho's House Revenue and Taxation Committee think they represent, anyway? It sure isn't Idaho's Main Street retailers, who must collect the state's 6 percent sales tax on every sale they make while most online and catalog retailers collect nothing. The retailers…
Council to urban renewal watchdogs: You're out of line. That was the message two council members delivered Tuesday night to a pair of citizens concerned with last week's news that former Lake City Development Corp. Chairman and current board member Charlie Nipp had been under…
Skyway Elemenatry 5th grader Danni Payton helped out in the 1st grade class at the school in Coeur d'Alene on Friday. KATHY PLONKA, The Spokesman-Review Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SRSnowmobiler Smith loved his sport/Jody Lawrence-Turner, SRBulldogs breeze to victory Senior Night/Jim Meehan, SRIdaho forest products industry…
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.
