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SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 2010

Oxymorons that are bugging me 20 

No. I'm not referring to any commenter here. But here's a few phrases I read/wrote this week that make me cringe:new babygrown menadult childrenpretty uglycrisis managementhopelessly optomisticnew classicFeel free to add your own below.

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Inspector Greg Bennett and Assistant fire marshal and investigator Paul Chase, right,   investigate a fire in a chicken coop in the 4000 block of North Willow Road. (J. BART RAYNIAK)

Fighting fires, solving crimes

Inspector Greg Bennett and Assistant fire marshal and investigator Paul Chase, right, investigate a fire in a chicken coop in the 4000 block of North Willow Road.Spokane Valley Fire seems to have more than its fair share of arson fires, but it also solves more…

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Ed Corridor Suit Vs. NIC Dismissed 14 

Item: Judge dismisses lawsuit against NIC for education corridor lease/Maureen Dolan, Coeur d'Alene PressMore Info: Officials at North Idaho College received word Friday that a lawsuit questioning the constitutionality of the college's lease of the former DeArmond Mill site property has been dismissed by a…

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Kootenai primary has big GOP field

Six Republicans will face off for two Kootenai County commission positions in the May 25 primary. The races are winner-takes-all because no candidates from other parties filed by Friday’s deadline.In addition, three Republicans will compete to become the next coroner, following the retirement of Dr.…

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Gov. Butch Otter holds his first public bill-signing ceremony of the session Wednesday, for the "Idaho Health Freedom Act." (Betsy Russell)

Dozens file candidacy for Idaho offices

Gov. Butch Otter holds his first public bill-signing ceremony of the session Wednesday, for the "Idaho Health Freedom Act."BOISE – Idahoans will have a full slate of candidates to choose from in both their May 25 primary election and the general election in November for…

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Racist fliers distributed in Southern Idaho 

IDAHO FALLS – A North Idaho man says about 3,000 white supremacist fliers have been distributed in Southern Idaho as part of an Aryan Nations campaign that started March 6.“It’s our constitutional right to distribute literature, and we will continue to do it,” Paul Mullet,…

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Bikers speed past heaps of tumbleweed blown in from an adjacent field Thursday on the Centennial Trail between Harvard and Barker roads near Liberty Lake.  (KATE CLARK / The Spokesman-Review)

Trail completion in doubt 

Bikers speed past heaps of tumbleweed blown in from an adjacent field Thursday on the Centennial Trail between Harvard and Barker roads near Liberty Lake. A state determination barring the construction of new trails along some portions of the Spokane River could cause further headaches…

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Anti-war activists congregate in front of City Hall after marching through downtown Milwaukee on Friday,  the seventh anniversary of the Iraq war.  (Associated Press)

Another anniversary 

Anti-war activists congregate in front of City Hall after marching through downtown Milwaukee on Friday, the seventh anniversary of the Iraq war.RALEIGH, N.C. – It was a day like any other day – except that it was the seventh anniversary of the U.S. invasion of…

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Huckleberries Online

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.