Parting Shot -- 7.25.17 3
The Parting Shot today features the Casco Bay home of Duane and Lola Hagadone on Casco Bay. The three gardens surrounding the home will be featured in the 20th annual Coeur d'Alene Garden Club tour July 30.
TUESDAY, JULY 25, 2017
Wild Card/Tuesday -- 7.25.17 14
I saw a blond man-bun riding past on a bicycle during my noon walk along the waterfront Monday. And wondered: When will the man-buns go the way of the North Idaho redneck mullets? The man-buns are overdue to shuffle off stage. I consider them to bell bottoms of the hair styles. Something that has never worked.
PM Scanner Traffic -- 7.25.17
Scanner Traffic for Tuesday PM (15 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic with 17 more items) includes male with hunting knife threatening motorists in Rathdrum area construction zone ...
Cutline Contest -- 7.25.17 13
The Cutline Contest today features President Donald Trump speaking at the National Boy Scout Jamboree in West Virginia, while former Boy Scouts, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Energy Secretary Rick Perry, watch. Monday Winner: DFO.
Crapo, Risch join bare Senate majority 1
Both Idaho Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch joined in the GOP’s bare majority in the Senate today to approve a motion to proceed with Senate health care legislation. The only two Republicans to dissent were Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine.
Will he or won't he 5
State Rep. Luke Malek, R-Coeur d'Alene, is considering a run for Raul Labrador's 1st Congressional District seat. Former Idaho attorney general David Leroy has announced his candidacy for the position now held by Republican Congressman Raul Labrador. Q: Should Malek run for Congress?
Archives: God Squad
In today's stroll down Memory Lane (25 years ago, July 27, 1992), we revisit an item that reminds us that the Coeur d'Alene School Board of Trustees had a religious bent a quarter of a century ago. Some trustees were concerned. But not Trustee Eli Ross.
Prescription Drug Ads
Tom Wobker, The Bard of Sherman Avenue, spent most of his retirement years fighting the cancer that killed him more than a year ago. So he knew something about prescription drugs. This poem is about such drugs.
Senate OKs debate on Obamacare repeal 1
Senate Republicans voted Tuesday voted to open debate on repealing Obamacare, dramatically reviving an effort that many GOP lawmakers left for dead just a few days ago. The vote required Vice President Mike Pence to break a 50-50 tie.
Idaho rape charges usually amended
A new state analysis shows that just 4 percent of reported rapes in Idaho result in a guilty conviction of a sex crime. According to the Idaho State Police report, rape charges are the most likely to be amended or modified to a lesser offense compared to other sex crime charges.
Pulitzer winner returns to roots 1
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson spoke Thursday evening at the Panida Theater in Sandpoint about the importance of public education in Idaho. Robinson, a graduate of Coeur d’Alene High School who grew up in Sandpoint, credits her teachers in North Idaho for “giving me my mind.”
AM Scanner Traffic -- 7.25.17
Scanner Traffic for Tuesday AM (17 items & counting) includes gas spill involving motorhome that ran over 5-gallon, plastic gas tank on overpass @ I-90/NW Blvd, CdA.
Post Falls to open rec wonderland 5
Post Falls is closing in on a 518-acre recreation wonderland south of the Spokane River. The wonderland, complete with hiking trails and access to the Spokane River, will tie into Q'emiln Park and, in the future, Corbin Park on the other side of the river. Brian Walker/Press reports ...
AM Headlines -- 7.25.17
AM Headlines begins with obit profile of John Conley, 90, the Spokane WWII veteran who built one of the area's most iconic stores, White Elephant. Also: Failing manhole covers vex CdA drivers/Press, Fines for Spokane oil trains head to voters/SR, Cooper Kupp atop depth chart for L.A. Rams/SR, Lake City man searches for Charlie the peacock/KHQ ...
Hucks Poll: Split on Hydro One
In the Monday poll, Hucks Nation was almost evenly split re: the future of Avista, now that it is owner by Canadian company, Hydro One. Today's Poll: Was it appropriate for President Donald Trump to politicize his speech at the national Boy Scouts Jamboree?
Trump talks politics w/Boy Scouts 28
A former acting CIA director is comparing President Trump’s speech at the Boy Scouts of America National Jamboree on Monday to a youth rally in an authoritarian country. John McLaughlin, acting director of the CIA under George Bush, tweeted late Monday that the rally “had the feel of a third world authoritarian's youth rally.” The Hill reports ...
Edit: Otter, solons fiddled, we pay 3
In an editorial, the Twin Falls Times-News comments: "The Idaho Supreme Court issued a surprisingly nuanced ruling last week that has major implications for your pocketbook as well as how laws are passed in Boise." The editorial addresses the recent Supreme Court ruling in favor of the governor's veto power.
Moscow may allow UI football tailgaters
A portion of Moscow’s city code may be amended to allow tailgaters at University of Idaho football games to consume alcoholic beverages in areas outside the Kibbie Dome. A decision by the Idaho State Board of Education last year essentially banned alcohol outside of the Kibbie Dome. Garrett Cabeza/Moscow-Pullman Daily News reports ...
INW delegations split on health care vote
Washington and Idaho’s congressional delegations are predictably split along party lines ahead of a vote Tuesday to open discussion on the Republican repeal-and-replace health care bill. Drew Gerber/SR reports ...
Art gallery has 20YO soul
The 20th anniversary exhibition at Coeur d’Alene’s Art Spirit Gallery features the many exquisite pieces of art you’d expect, but also two surprises. One of the surprises is Mason Miles, 20, who is billed as the nation's youngest art curator. Columnist Doug Clark visits with Miles about the gallery's 20th annivesary show.
Trustees reject Souza election plan 10
School trustees in Coeur d'Alene said “hell no” Monday to a compromise on Sen. Mary Souza's legislation proposing trustee elections be moved to a partisan election cycle. Souza claims she's not trying to politicize the nonpartisan elections, noting the abysmal turnout for the trustee elections this spring.
Huckleberries: 'Dunkirk' was fabulous but that didn't stop Al Gore Boo Birds
Huckleberries Tuesday begins with an outburst heard during the trailers prior to the showing of Christopher Nolan's "Dunkirk" at Regal Riverstone recently.
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.