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THURSDAY, DEC. 1, 2011

Brock: Santa Now Reason For Season 

Good heavens, it's December already. America's most genuine holiday - Thanksgiving - is in the rearview mirror and our most garish one is coming up fast. Can't you just see the incandescent Santas? The dancing elves? And the mall parking lots, jammed full of cars?…

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Edit: IDEQ Gets By With 24% Less 

On the eve of the Great Recession, Idaho was spending $18.2 million on its environmental watchdog agency. Three years later, the Department of Environmental Quality is getting by on almost $4.4 million less. You can't blame that on an anti-environmental and anti-regulatory agenda on the…

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New Group Backs Reasonable Repubs 23 

Item: New group backs 'reasonable' Republicans: Founders want to help 'less agenda-driven' candidates/Tom Hasslinger, Coeur d'Alene Press More Info: A group of North Idaho business people and civic supporters has formed a new political action committee to financially support "reasonable" Republican candidates, the founders announced…

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AM Headlines -- 12.1.11

A Spokane Police Department car blocks the entrance to the RiverPark Square parking garage Tuesday after reports of someone falling onto the entrance ramp. Story here (fourth item). (SR photo: Christopher Anderson) Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SR Wednesday Scanner Traffic/DFO, HucksOnline Sunshine likely after fog burns…

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Obama Marks World AIDS Day 

President Barack Obama makes remarks on World AIDS Day this morning at George Washington University in Washington. Story here. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Question: Do you think we'll find a cure for AIDS in the next 20 years?

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Idaho 36th For Total Tax Burden 

The Tax Foundation calculates “Tax Freedom Day” for each state, the date on which workers theoretically have earned enough to cover their full tax burden at the federal, state and local levels. Economist Mark Robyn told the Associated Taxpayers of Idaho this morning that Idaho's…

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Utah Dog Shoots Hunter In The Butt 

A Utah bird hunter was shot in the buttocks after his dog stepped on a shotgun laid across the bow of a boat. Box Elder County Sheriff's Deputy Kevin Potter says the 46-year-old Brigham City man was duck hunting with a friend when he climbed…

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Lucrative WSU Deal Lands Leach

On Tuesday, Washington State – in the view of one of its old guard – lost its innocence. On Wednesday, the Cougars lost their minds. In the very best way, of course – providing you’re not wedded to a 1980s way of how Wazzu fits…

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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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