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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 26, 2011

Cindy: Sam Takes On Bullies

On her Facebook wall, Cindy tells of her son coming to the rescue of another kid who was being bullied: "Yesterday on the way home from school Sam said, "Well. I did it. I saved the day. My friends were picking on Matt in the…

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Barbieri Launches Nullification Bill 

Rep. Vito Barbieri, R-Dalton Gardens, told the House State Affairs Committee this morning, “The federal health care laws recently passed by the U.S. Congress have invaded the traditional sovereign powers of the state. This bill declares that this intrusion by the federal government is ……

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Time: Obama Charts Path Forward 34 

For two years, Barack Obama has been talking about lifting the U.S. out of a financial hole. In his second State of the Union, buoyed by recent legislative successes, his successful speech in Tucson and a brightening economic forecast, he began charting a path forward.…

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AM Headlines -- 1.25.11

Don Sausser snapped this photo of fog-enshrouded Coeur d'Alene Resort this morning. Don reports that the upper levels of the resort alternatively disappeared and reappeared in the fog. Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SR Tuesday Scanner Traffic/DFO, Huckleberries Online Fog shrouds Spokane area during commute/Mike Prager, SR…

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Bell: Soaring Enrollment, Falling $$$ 

Priscilla Bell, president of North Idaho College, is making her budget presentation to JFAC this morning, and her news is dramatic: Student enrollment, measured by total head count, has soared from about 3,500 when she started at the college in 2007, to some 6,700 this…

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Gazette Raps SR For Police Stand 16 

Under this year’s version of the proposed legislation, tribal cops would not be accountable to the sheriff n or any other elected official. Which is why the Spokane newspaper’s endorsement of this proposal is so mind-boggling. One would think the people who write editorials at…

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Car Crashes, Then Internet Crashes

Item: Car crashes ... so does Internet: Some service restored by Tuesday evening/Nick Rotunno, Coeur d'Alene Press More Info: At 4:20 a.m., thousands of North Idaho and eastern Washington customers lost Internet service when a Toyota Corolla struck a utility pole in Otis Orchards, Wash.,…

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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.