... that a local mover and shaker is trying to reignite a fire under the downtown memorial garden idea that Duane Hagadone was pushing some time back. Stay tuned ...Question: Is it possible to resurrect Hagadone's downtown garden idea, given the opposition?
Olympia still thinks us handy,For dumping offenders most randy,The state project is nice,-If we ignore the price-How ‘bout it Spokane-want some candy?”Andy Michaels/29 Words Or LessItem: Spokane to be home, where perverts roam/Doug Clark, Spokesman-Review
1. You have been to Rocky Point at least once (at least if you are a guy) and hoped the rocks you rolled down the hill didn’t hit any passing cars.2. You were there and watched the Morning Mine burn down.3. You know that the…
AP Photo/The OlympianIn this image taken from video, Ross Kurtz, 14, examines a gray whale that washed ashore dead near Johnson Point in Olympia, Wash., Monday. Researchers planned to perform an autopsy on the five-ton, nearly 30-foot animal. The whale was too thin for its…
Deena and I were discussing this last night, why good people should have to suffer such pain. She endured an eerily similar circumstance eight years ago, when she lost her teenage son, Miles, and then shortly thereafter her husband, Peter. Like the Johnsons, she and…
RSPA: DFO, your site's a mess this am. I bet it's the Group Health ad. Why does this site and the S-R's main site suck up so much of the user's processing power? Need server or software upgrades? Better coders? The big boys of the…
Does Butch Otter ever bother talking to people who know about the property tax before he says, again, that he's considering freezing property valuations for Idahoans who stay in the same house? The fact that California essentially did what Otter suggests doesn't prevent it from…
"The problem isn't with the blog software -- it's with the ad code. Our ad-serving software (which we'll soon be retiring in favor of a better solution) is ... how shall I say ... less than perfect" -- Blogmeister Ryan.
Item: Developer dies in Mexico: Motorcycle crash kills Johnson, injures wife/Becky Kramer, Spokesman-ReviewMayor Sandi Bloem: "The community has lost such an all-around great person. He had a vision for what was good for the community … and the can-do attitude to make it happen."Sandy Patano:…
Jessi: Your site is kind of screwy this morning, DFO.DFO: As some of you have already noticed, the site is experiencing some technical difficulties this morning. (Read: the entire right rail w/recent comments and the blogrolls is missing, and the archives are missing.) We're about…
It's hard to move on from the awful news that started the day re: the tragic motorcyle crash that claimed the life of local developer Tom Johnson and severely injured his wife, Cyndie. Please keep Mrs. Johnson and her two surviving daughters in your thoughts…
Christie Wood: I am very excited about the weekly gardening tips. Good job DFO in setting this up. Maybe you could expand this a little and we could hear from other experts in their field such as health and nutrition. Just a thought. Alice, I…
Noah Berger/Oakland TribuneA section of highway lies burned and crumbled in Emeryville, Calif., after a tanker carrying gasoline exploded on Sunday, April 29, 2007. In the resulting blaze, a section of freeway that funnels traffic onto the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge collapsed. The truck's driver…
State lawmakers and prison officials want to add a $5 million treatment center for sex offenders at the Airway Heights Corrections Center. Speaking on behalf of the local tourism industry, I don't believe this is the sort of attraction we've been looking for. Come on.…
Item: Former C.I.A. Chief’s Memoir Irritates Some High-Ranking Readers/Scott Shane, New York Times AP Photo/Lawrence JacksonPresident Bush presents George Tenet the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award, the nation's highest civilian honor, in 2004. Now, of course, the Bush administration feels betrayed by comments made in…
RE: You can be part of the conversation at the SR Opinion Page blog, A Matter of Opinion, here.In my Sunday column -- read here -- I reconnected with an early mentor of mine, Pat Schroeder, former Democratic Congresswoman from Colorado. I worked in her…
Item: Developer Tom Johnson killed in motorcycle accident, wife Cyndie injured/Becky Kramer, Spokesman-ReviewMore Info: North Idaho developer Tom Johnson died Sunday in a motorcycle accident in Mexico. His wife, Cyndie, is in stable condition today at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego. A pickup struck…
RE: A feature written by Guide to Dining North Idaho by Kerri Thoreson shortly before the Johnson family lost their 15-year-old son, Jordan in November.The Johnson family...Tom, Cyndie and their children Desiree, Aubree and Jordan have always lived an active lifestyle and North Idaho has…
Item: Baldwin's snap a lesson to angry dads/Connie Schultz, Cleveland Plain Dealer(Actor Alec) Baldwin is getting lots of attention, but I suspect it's not the kind he was hoping for after he left a vicious voice-mail message attacking his 11-year-old daughter for not answering their…
From: Nov. 28, 2006, edition of SRThe younger brother of Arizona State senior forward Aubree Johnson of Post Falls died from an enlarged heart while in St. Thomas for the Paradise Jam women’s basketball tournament, the medical examiner in Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands, said…
RE: Item: Developer damages key spawning beds: Tiny kokanee die; no permit for pilings/James Hagengruber, Spokesman-ReviewThe state should file every charge they can and the court should impose the most severe penalty according to law. No plea bargains. He should be required to restore the…
If you've been following Huckleberries for the last week, you now know how you can tell if you're from Coeur d'Alene or Athol. Today, Raymond Pert, an Oregon community college instructor and Silver Valley native, explains how you can tell if you're from Kellogg. You…
Alice Rankin left me with a valuable gift Thursday when we did our interview together -- a pamphlet with her personal gardening tips. Immediately, I discovered why the onion sets I planted last year didn't work. I planted them too deep. And most of the…
Item: Developer damages key spawning beds: Tiny kokanee die; no permit for pilings/James Hagengruber, Spokesman-ReviewMore Info: Illegal construction in Lake Pend Oreille near Bayview, Idaho, effectively "nuked" one of the last healthy spawning beds for the lake's struggling kokanee salmon population, said Chip Corsi, regional…
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.
