On Facebook, CindyH is thinking about condiments. Seems she has a friend whose spouse hates mustard. Posts Cindy: "I love mustard in all its various incarnations, but mayonnaise? That viscous, slimy, quivering white stuff is a bane to the discerning palate. Do you suppose people…
If you want to know what a graduating class of doctors looks like, you can see part of one here. Junior's in the foreground, smiling at the camera. He's surrounded by 139 classmates who formed the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine Class of…
Sorry to leave you high and dry after the primary elections last week. But Junior's graduation from medical school @ UColorado Denver trumped everything else for Mrs. O and me. Before leaving, I learned I did pretty well in the Jeff Ward's Reagan Republican poll…
The Idaho Republican Party is hiring two full-time staffers to spearhead a “parallel campaign” on behalf of newly nominated GOP congressional candidate Raul Labrador, who’s challenging 1st District Democratic Congressman Walt Minnick. Jonathan Parker, state GOP executive director, said he requested the funds for the…
At his vantage point above Sherman Avenue, Don Sausser snapped this photo and writes: "A parked van window provides a sky view between recent rains."Kootenai County property values decline again/Alison Boggs, SRGoing deeper into Memorial Day/Kevin Taylor, Bloglander (Inlander Blog)WSU to face Kansas State in…
Here I am in the bowels of Invesco Field (Mile High Stadium, where the Denver Broncos play ball), during a tour of the facility at an honors banquet for UColorado Denver medical school graduates Friday. For some reason, this sign caught my eye. You write…
5:54 p.m. A brown-and-white pitbull attacked caller's dog in his back yard on Candy Lane/CdA.5:53 p.m. Caller from 200 block of West Fairway/CdA reports an acquaintance has just stolen her white pickup.5:51 p.m. 2 girls on dirt bikes are riding along the Centennial Trail and…
A week after Idaho’s primary, Kootenai County’s final Republican contest was decided Tuesday with the flip of a coin. In the race for Precinct 8 committeeman, both incumbent Ralph Noyes and challenger Jimmie Masters received 123 votes. As dictated by Idaho code, county Clerk Dan…
No one can predict how the endangered Selkirk woodland caribou will fare if another animal extirpated in large parts of its historic range -- the gray wolf -- moves back into their territory. In the last two or three years, wolves (likely moving south from…
Raul Labrador, the Republican candidate for Congress in Idaho’s 1st District, is critical of Democratic Rep. Walt Minnick’s vote on legislation that could repeal a policy preventing gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military. Minnick voted in favor of a plan to end…
As many of you know, son, Seth, graduated from medical school at UColorado Denver Friday, with his medical degree as well as a doctorate in neuro-science. Here, you see the young man shortly after being awarded his second degree last week, along with Mrs. O,…
MikeK: The 2010 Trails and Bikeways Master Plan is on the agenda for approval. Can be found at www.cdaid.org the first hotlink is "council meeting agenda and packet". Then also on the agenda is the proposed conversion of parts of 15th street to a Class…
Israeli port workers stand near a boat which was part of a Gaza-bound flotilla that was raided Monday by Israeli forces, in the port of Ashdod, southern Israel earlier today. Pro-Palestinian activists on Tuesday sent another boat to challenge Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip…
On Sunday, my family and I attended the Denver exhibition of Body Worlds, a traveling exhibition of preserved human bodies and body parts that are prepared using a technique called plastination to reveal inner anatomical structures. Wikipedia reports: "The exhibition's developer and promoter is German…
A buck looks over the fence at a half acre of Dalton Gardens land Friday where a community-supported agriculture project is taking shape. The abundance of deer is one of the hazards of gardening in North Idaho. The garden will return fresh produce to subscribers…
"Looks like Clark and Ellen Griswold are bringing the family up north to Silverwood Theme Park for their 2010 vacation," posts Kerri Thoresen/OnLocation North Idaho.Tuesday Cawfee Tawk/Prime BeautyTruth, lies, and politics/Rants, Raves, & Random ThoughtsFish-eye view wins prize/Robin Loznak PhotographyA soggy-bottom bouquet of images/Slight DetourI…
11:46 a.m. A person is suffering an allertic reaction to bee sting @ Idaho Asphalt Supply on Prairie/Hayden.11:44 a.m. DMV reports that a male wanted on a New Mexico warrant is in office.11:38 a.m. PFPD Blue reports a stalled vehicle is blocking an alley on…
I am not the last one standing … Gone but hopefully not forgotten. Not as formerly done … Gone fishing. Closed shop for the summer … All good titles for this last regular post of the blog. I have decided to let the blog go…
"I spent some time at the family garden yesterday and I noticed that the purple podded pole beans are finally making an appearance," posts Sunny/Bent's Beer Garden. "This is the first year I have tried growing them so I'm excited to see what they look…
A Butterfly Moment: Do not, for the sake of your child's teacher's sanity, call and ask for a meeting with said teacher and the principal without leaving at least a vague idea of what the meeting is about. It will make the teacher nervous to…
For the past six years people have referred to it as Spokane’s HotZone. Within a year or so, it could be the Spokane HotZone Museum. City and business leaders started the free wireless Wi-Fi area in 2004, eventually creating a 100-square-block area across downtown Spokane.…
Weekend Poll: 153 of 312 respondents (49%) to a poll that started before the Memorial Day Weekend said Commissioners-elect Jai Nelson and Dan Green should follow through on their idea to hire a county administrator to supervise departments and streamline government. 131 of 312 (42%)…
In this July 26, 2004, file photo, former Vice President Al Gore kisses his wife Tipper after addressing the delegates during the Democratic National Convention at the FleetCenter in Boston. Gore and his wife, Tipper, are separating after 40 years of marriage. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian,…
Aside from some scarring on his fingers and a missing big toe where 7,620 volts of electricity exited his body, Tig Cornell has fully recovered and is ready to return to work. "Everybody's pretty much told me that I'm lucky," he said. "Everything just happened…
Timothy Egan wrote a piece for the NY Times recently in which he challenged "The Brand" of Sarah Palin. The piece begins with Idaho's hard-fought Primary Race of Tuesday and suggests that Sarah Palin's political muscle has atrophied. I recently wrote a post in which…
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.
