Local Blogs -- 1/28/09 13
I was making dinner the other night and needed to open a can of olives. As I watched the can spin around on my electric can opener, I realized that I had received that can opener as a wedding gift. 16 1/2 years ago. I…
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 28, 2009
Inaugural Platform Used NI Lumber 1
It may not have grabbed the limelight with the same pizzazz as the rest of the hoopla at the 56th quadrennial inauguration, but Riley Creek Lumber Company's logo received worldwide visibility shortly before Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United…
Bob Wire: January Is Facial Hair Month 15
I’m the first to admit it’s a crappy beard. There are a few bald patches here and there. I was not blessed with the hirsute gene. I know guys who could grow a full beard over a three day weekend. But for someone like me,…
Best Of The INorthwest -- 1/28/09 1
A phenomenon known as "light pillars" spreads across the night sky over Victor, Idaho, on Monday. The colorful columns form when light from the ground reflects off flat snow crystals descending through very cold air. (AP Photo / Jackson Hole News&Guide, Bradly J. Boner) Cartoon:…
HBO @ Noon: Who Handles P Exams? 25
EJS (re: MikeK sez Bris rather than Circ-Word): Being a male I ask the rest of the males in here: Who better to do a prostate exam, a man or woman doctor? And to the women, a male for female OBGYN?Sisyphus: I have a very…
EOB: NIC 0-for-2 @ Idaho Legislature 23
North Idaho College, which had its budget hearing before JFAC this morning, had been hoping for $605,100 next year to start up a much-needed dental hygienist program in partnership with a local free clinic, and $334,500 for the first year of a two-year campus technology…
Minnick, Simpson Oppose Stimulus Bill 53
Democratic Rep. Walt Minnick will vote against the economic stimulus bill later today, Minnick spokesman John Foster said a few minutes ago. A vote is expected later today. Republican Rep. Mike Simpson has said he will also vote against the bill/Kevin Richert, Idaho Statesman.Question: Do…
Idaho Blogs: John Updike, The Mensch
Mensch is Yiddish for a good person, and that's what I found author John Updike to be when I interviewed him on the phone a few years ago. Updike died (Tuesday) at the age of 76. I read a memoir he wrote in which he…
Special Olympics Torch Coming Soon 1
Item: Local athletes heading to world stage in Boise: Special Olympics games include snowboarding, skating/Mike Prager, SRMore Info: The Olympic flame, which was lit in Athens, Greece, in November, arrives in Coeur d’Alene on Thursday for its final journey to Boise.Question: Are you planning to…
AG Fights Avista Rate Hike 13
Item: Avista rates face appeal: Attorney general targets increases that started Jan. 1/John Stucke, SRMore Info: Washington’s attorney general has appealed a sharp increase in Avista power bills and aims to unravel the company’s plan to collect an extra $112 million from businesses and residential…
HBO's AM Headlines -- 1/28/09
Kootenai County firefighters wait to clear the scene of a minor-injury accident in the eastbound lanes of Interstate-90 near Highway 41 in Post Falls, Idaho following a short, but havoc-causing freezing rainfall that caused dozens of accidents Tuesday between Stateline and Coeur d'Alene. Story here.…
In The News: Iraq Votes Again 1
Iraqi policemen hold up their ink-stained fingers after casting their vote in the country's provincial elections in Baghdad, Iraq, earlier today. The polls opened Wednesday for members of the Iraqi security forces, detainees and hospital patients. General voting is scheduled on Saturday. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
Poll: Reason With A Bank Robber?
Item: Assertive Idaho bank manager talks bank robbers into surrendering: 2 masked men call Luwana Couch 'ma'am'/Idaho StatesmanQuestion: Would you try to reason with a bank robber? Yes? No? Don't know?
TUBOB: Glory Day In Dad's Wagon 1
Wasn't I skinny? Wasn't I moody? I didn't actually smile from the ages of 15 until 19. The car to the right is the family's truckster of the time a massive 1973 Ford Country Deeded Landowner station wagon. It had a 500 cubic inch something…
MikeK Sez Bris Rather Than Circ-Word 73
On his Facebook page, Councilman MikeK couldn't bring himself to say the Circ-Word when referring to the medical procedure that baby son Ronan endured recently. So he called it a Bris -- the Jewish word for the circumcision ceremony. Which prompted an SR colleague to…
WND Poll: Obama & Muslims 7
What do you think of Obama granting his 1st interview to Arab TV?/WorldNetDailyGreat way to reach out to the Muslim world Smart gesture, considering the challenges he's facing in the Islamic world Makes perfect sense, he knows the Middle East is the world's most dangerous…
TUESDAY, JAN. 27, 2009
Wild Card -- 1/27/09 15
In the news this evening, a Los Angeles man killed his wife, 5 kids and himself, after he lost his job here. Bill Clinton earned $6M in speaking fees last year, chiefly from foreign sources, here. The New York Times features the impact the late…
Parting Shot -- 1/27/09 3
While President Barack Obama was on Capitol Hill meeting with Republicans a Uniformed Secret Service Emergency Response Team officer lets his security dog get some exercise and play in the light snow that covered the White House grounds in Washington today. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)SR's Today…
Headlines @ Closin' Time -- 1/27/09
Larry Brown (right), chairman of the Lakeland School Board, and CDA School Trustee Vern Newby visited the Idaho Legislature today to lobby for money for Idaho schools. You can read Betsy Russell's Eye On Boise story here.Down economy means growth at NIC/Eye On BoiseISP reopens…
Scanner Traffic -- 1/27/09 4
New: Coeur d'Alene police blotter summary here.Update: Matthew Fish was transported to KMC to be treated for injuries in that snowmobile crash @ 12:30 p.m. Monday @ Forest Service Roads 209 & 612. He told rescuers that he crashed in the Fernan Saddle area after…
Special Olympics Torch Coming
But don't let that stop people from coming down Thursday morning at 8:30 - big doings with the Special Olympics Torch entering Idaho - the Final Leg - on the way to the games in Boise and surrounding areas. One outdoor brief ceremony with great…
APhoto Of The Day -- 1/27/09 17
A plate flies off a table set for two as Mason Hill, 8, rides down the hill at the 4th annual furniture races at the Bruce Mound Winter Sports Area near Neillsville, Wis., Saturday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Marshfield News Herald, Dan Young)1. This…
Patty Duke Stumps For Social Security 7
In this photo provided by the Social Security Administration, Patty Duke, now of Coeur d'Alene, reprises her teen-age roles as TV's Lane cousins to drum up enthusiasm for retiring online. As a teen-ager, Duke played the characters Patty and Cathy Lane from the hit 1960s…
For Those Keeping Score @ Home ... 1
... Blogmeister Ryan has increased the number of posts that are shown on the front page from 20 to 30. Ditto for the number of posts that can be made in the comments section. Can you think of any other tweaks that are needed?
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.