Also: Kootenai County ranks #10, Boundary #11, Bonner #12, Benewah #34, and Shoshone #42; all counties here (hold cursor over county) It’s pretty hard to find a healthier place to live than Blaine County. With easy access to primary care physicians and low obesity rates,…
Helen Newton, former Sandpoint city clerk and later council member: "It was about 1985 when our excellent Sandpoint mayor Ron Chaney was the subject of a recall petition over the city council’s approval of annexing property into the city. All residents in the subject area…
First District GOP Rep. Raul Labrador told a national TV audience Sunday that likely GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney shouldn't attempt to mediate concerns about Mormon theology. Appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday as part of a panel on religion and politics, Labrador suggested…
Arsaken: To recall the Mayor and Council means that this group wants to take away our right to vote. They are attempting to invalidate my past vote for Mayor Bloem and these three councilmen. In addition, if the recall is successful, then Gookin, Adams, and…
11:55 a.m. Probation & Parole, 202 Anton/CdA, wants officer to serve warrant on wanted man. 11:44 a.m. 2 pieces of wood fell out of bed of white pickup e/b on I-90 near H41/PF. 11:43 a.m. Out-of-breath patriol officer asks permission to Taser elusive dog on…
Rathdrum Mayor Vic Holmes, a candidate for Commissioner Dan Green's (back right) seat, drinks a glass of water prior to his three-way debate with Green & Larry Spencer at the Panhandle Pachyderm Club luncheon in Post Falls Friday. The Coeur d'Alene Press provides the report…
Was anybody aboard the Titanic on April 14, 1912, from Idaho? There were 2,224 people aboard the R.M.S. Titanic that fateful night when the "unsinkable" pride of the White Star Line struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic. (Exact passenger and crew figures are unknown.)…
President Barack Obama stands next to the Easter Bunny during the singing of the National Anthem, at the White House in Washington Monday, during the annual Easter Egg Roll. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) Top Cutlines: 1. boy it’s a close call as…
Your pity is misplaced if you have been hoping that someone will invent a "cure" for baldness. If you want to cure something, cure the abnormal crop of hair on a mature man's skull. Scientists who condescendingly try to find a "cure" for the non-disease…
Josh Bransford, Idaho’s best-known wolf trapper, has violated no state laws, according to the Department of Fish and Game. But if that’s all Fish and Game will say for the record, it’s time someone filled in the blanks. Bransford is the kind of trapper who…
Item: City by the Break: Fractured council reflects its constituent camps/Tom Hasslinger, Coeur d'Alene Press More Info: (Councilman Woody McEvers, pictured) said later he regretted the back and forth. "I'm sorry I went there; it was probably idiotic of me," he said. "That was just…
Wearing period costumes, British passenger Jacki Free holds her daughter, name not given, as the MS Balmoral Titanic memorial cruise ship sails from Southampton, England. A cruise carrying relatives of some of the more than 1,500 people who died aboard the Titanic nearly 100 years…
The recall election launched last week against progressive Coeur d’Alene Mayor Sandi Bloem and three City Council members is based on a fib and old grudges. A recall backer circulated a flier at the Republican Women’s luncheon Thursday claiming that her group is trying to…
In this Feb. 22, 1999, photo, veteran CBS newsman Mike Wallace listens to speakers during a conference about covering assisted death at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich. Wallace, who graduated from the University of Michigan in 1939, died Saturday. He was 93.…
Duroc: Hoo-boy. Welcome to the new HBO: All McEuen, all the time. Nice to see folks all worked up about something local, but my goodness ... DFO: McEuen Field is and the Coeur d'Alene waterfront are the center of attention for locals, visitors and tourist…
Dan of the County: To be honest, I have gone back and forth on the idea of a public vote. In most cases, I think without question our form of representative government means that the elected officials are supposed to make the decisions that come…
JohnA: I helped to create LCDC fifteen years ago. The only tax dollars pledged to McEuen are from those property owners in the Lake District, which is mostly properties in downtown, midtown and along NW Boulevard. They are less than ten percent of all city…
Coeur d'Alene Held Hostage, Days 4-5: In my 28 years in the Lake City, I can't remember a week like this last week. In fact, I can't remember an attempted recall of one City Council member, let alone the mayor and three council members who…
Coeur d’Alene Mayor Sandi Bloem and three City Council members are facing a recall attempt over a proposed $14.2 million upgrade of McEuen Field. Bloem, who is three years into her third term, has been the guiding influence on many of the major projects that…
In this June 17, 2006, SR file photo, painter Thomas Kinkade works on a landscape painting of Lake Coeur d'Alene from a hillside where builders will begin a series of luxury homes based on his paintings. Kinkade said each house will come with a print…
I'd like to welcome Sara (or is it Susie?) Meyer to Mary Souza's connect-the-dots world beyond the looking glass. In her latest newsletter, Mary attacks the young mother of an 18MO baby (pictured) because she dared to take a stand against Mary's attempt to recall…
LoveToHateMe: In this case, I think several council members and the mayor do need to go. Not because of their official decisions, but simply because I think they have been there too long. I don’t care how good a person’s platform is, there needs to…
Joker RE: The Young & The Angry: So this is what you get from the baby boomer generation and the summer of love crowd after 40 years! What a bunch of selfish, self-important, jerks who only care about themselves! I guess all that free love,…
McGruber: Vic Holmes shot himself in the foot with that interview and his remarks about running for the paycheck. Dan Green needs to remind people of that at every forum. Vic might be a nice guy and all but he’s out of his league in…
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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