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Weekend Wild Card — 10.13-14.12

Posted by DFO

Oct. 12, 2012 11:27 p.m. • 8 comments

I saw another sign that the 2012 general election causing much excitement in the local under-ticket races. As I returned home Friday night, I didn't see a political yard sign at the three-way-stop corner of Lincoln Way (Highway 95) & Walnut (just east of the Spokane River bridge). Usually, that corner is sprouting political yard signs like dandelions. In fact, I've seen few yard signs in the Coeur d'Alene area. Not much at stake. Just Idaho public education. Just control of North Idaho College. The Idaho presidential race is a slam dunk. Yet that's the one that'll get people out. Amazing. Now for your Weekend Wild Card …

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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.