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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 2014

AM Scanner Traffic -- 3.11.14

12:02 p.m. Drivers are ignoring ITD flares to access offramp from H95 to NW Blvd, as result of bridge crash. 11:42 a.m. Patrol officers are diverting n/b Highway 95 traffic below Spokane River bridge. 11:37 a.m. A passenger in one vehicle of the H95/Spokane River…

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HBO Blogosphere -- 3.11.14 

On her Facebook wall, Councilwoman KerriT posts: "Thousands of Tundra swans are making their way back to western Alaska in their annual migration. The chain lakes of the lower Coeur d'Alene River and Cougar Bay on Lake Coeur d'Alene are regular stops but this year…

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Portland Cat Terrorizes Family 11 

A 22-pound cat named Lux had to be snared by Portland police officers after the owners said the ferocious feline attacked their baby in their Northwest Portland apartment Sunday. Officers were dispatched to The Yards at Union Station in the 900 block of Northwest Naito…

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A Tax Write-Off? 

When Otter signs the guns on campus law, can professors write off the purchase of guns? Is it considered a school supply that is not provided by the college? -- A Facebook Friend. Question: Now that the legislative brain trust has decided that our college…

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Poll: Just Butch Being Butch 19 

Monday Poll: A majority of Hucks Nation doesn't view Gov. Butch Otter differently, now that news has surfaced that he had a bit role in a soft-porn movie in the 1990s. 42 of 139 respondents (30.22%) said Otter didn't know that the soft-porn scenes would…

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Gone With The Blade 

Don Sausser, Huckleberries' Eye on Sherman Avenue, reports: "This morning crews fell eleven beautiful trees along Sherman in preparation for changes to facilitate access to the CDA Resort and McEuen park." (Photo: Don Sausser)

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Edit: A Shameful Senate Panel Vote 

How inconsiderate of us to fail to recognize that six members of the Senate State Affairs Committee are special and ought to be exempt from associating with the unwashed and unanointed when securing an Idaho permit to carry a concealed weapon. Our gross error of…

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AM Headlines -- 3.11.14

High school golfers armed with umbrellas blanket the Clarkston Golf and Country Club Monday, where boys from many schools north of Clarkston play the snow-free Clarkston Invitational. (Lewiston Tribune photo: Barry Kough) Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SR Lakeland school levy vote today/Press Post Falls police seek…

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Senate Gun Vote Steams House 

Rep. Rick Youngblood, R-Nampa, is plenty steamed about the demise of his bill, HB 514, in a Senate committee today; the measure would have removed state elected officials’ exemption from the requirement for a concealed weapons permit. “I guess I’m surprised that a senator would…

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Airline Gates May Become Unfriendly 18 

The rule of 45, the airlines called it. When flying, you needed to add up all the dimensions of your carry-on suitcase -- length, width and thickness -- and if they came to more than 45 inches, you needed to check the bag. Except the…

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More Idaho Cronyism Dead Ahead 

If you like Idaho Gov. C.L. (Butch) Otter's corporate cronyism, you'll love what Otter's Commerce Director, Jeff Sayer, has in store. Under Sayer's Idaho Reimbursement Incentive Act, companies would get a 30 percent cut in income taxes, sales taxes and payroll taxes for 15 years…

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McEuen To Get Worker Tribute? 

It's a tribute to the American worker, who Dean Haagenson said is very much underappreciated. "You don't appreciate the electrician until the electricity goes out, and you don't appreciate the plumber until the sewer backs up," he told the city of Coeur d'Alene's General Services…

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Dock Proposal Riles Black Rock

Glenn McDonald walks near a cabana owned by Roger Anderson on Thursday. McDonald is concerned about two community docks proposed by Anderson near his waterfront property on Lake Coeur d’Alene. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka) A developer’s proposal to sell ownership in a private beach and…

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Stolen 'Kate' Statue Found

Lifelong Coeur d'Alene resident Randy Cayko didn't find any moose antlers while riding his dirt bike on Yellowstone Trail. Instead he found something far more valuable: a large bronze statue of a 1920s-era woman on a bicycle. "It was just sitting on the ground with…

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Clark: A Massacre That Didn't Happen 

February 12 in a still-snow-buried Spokane passed quieter than the Denver Broncos locker room after Super Bowl XLVIII. Did you notice? Did you care? I did. I’ll admit I even held my breath a time or two as the Big Day approached because, well ……

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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.