Recent stories by Dave

• That sign clearly not from God

  May 2, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 So there I was minding my own business on a return trip from church at 1:15 Sunday afternoon when I saw a friendly man with short-cropped hair and a sign …

• Priggee carries quite a ’toon

  April 4, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 If you don’t know who Milt Priggee is, you probably haven’t lived in the Inland Northwest for long. For years, Milt was the free-spirit cartoonist for The Spokesman-Review who was …

• Stereotype lecture hits home

  March 28, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 At A Family Runs Through It, local blogger Phil Corless has had it up to here with negative stereotypes aimed at home schoolers. Phil is a home schooler. Also, Phil …

• Election challenge gets zanier

  March 14, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 You want to know how far over the top the biggest cheerleaders for unsuccessful City Council candidate Jim Brannon are? Some sincerely believe that there’s a conspiracy to steal votes …

• NY Times skewers tea partiers

  March 7, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 Charlie Brown never seemed to learn that Lucy always yanked the football before he tried to kick it. And Idaho conservatives never learn that they aren’t going to catch a …

• Sheriff’s crudeness comes with a cost

  February 14, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I6 Benewah County Sheriff Robert Kirts isn’t going to win his battle to continue to treat Coeur d’Alene tribal police with contempt. He’s already losing that war. 5

• McEuen plan gets a mishearing

  February 14, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 You may have heard that Steve Adams claims that Finance Director Troy Tymeson told him about plans to build a two-story parking garage on McEuen Field. Adams, an unsuccessful council …

• Tracking the vote tracker

  February 7, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 You really don’t have to tell a private eye how you voted, no matter how persuasive he may sound on the phone or in person at your doorstep. As you …

• Suit hinges on absentee vote, eh?

  January 31, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 Monica Paquin, a former resident of Coeur d’Alene now living in the Montreal area, finds herself the focus of an effort to overthrow the 2009 Lake City elections. And all …

• Jeans joke lives on for clerk, wife

  January 24, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 You may already know that Kootenai County Clerk Dan English has lost the equivalent of a runway model worth of weight. But did you know that his successful stomach bypass …

• Readers question online ire

  January 10, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 It didn’t take Dan Gookin long to return to bashing CPD Blue spokeswoman Sgt. Christie Wood. Ornery Gookin reinvented himself as Mr. Nice Guy last fall in a council bid …

• Inkstained fingers get snippy slap

  December 27, 2009 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 So there I was minding my own business when – shazam! – I found myself in the middle of Jim Brannon’s sour-grapes lawsuit to overthrow the 2009 Coeur d’Alene city …

• Pot calling kettle blue may work

  December 13, 2009 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 Kevin Richert, opinion editor of the Idaho Statesman, and conservative blogger Adam Graham/Give Me Liberty responded to the attack by Sen. Mike Jorgenson, R-Hayden Lake, on Rep. Raul Labrador’s candidacy …

• Vote count nitpicking goes global

  December 6, 2009 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 As you know, challenger Jim Brannon is suing Mayor Sandi Bloem and a laundry list of city and county officials in an attempt to annul his five-vote loss to incumbent …

• Vandals win where it counts

  November 29, 2009 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 For all long-suffering UIdaho Vandal fans, Argonaut News Editor Marcus Kellis offers a unique perspective re: the lopsided results of recent football games w/Boise State. First, Marcus has solid southern …

• An insider’s view of jail crowding

  November 22, 2009 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 Kendra Goodrick- Martinez, the ex-meth dealer who continues to go straight, was an interested observer when Kootenai County voters rejected that jail expansion proposal. She knows first-hand that a bigger …

• Elections and full moons

  November 8, 2009 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 I was visiting my mother-in-law for lunch in the Coeur d’Alene Place development last Sunday when the door bell rang. I heard a familiar voice when my mother-in-law answered the …

• Human-rights conference gets hand from Hattiesburg

  November 1, 2009 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 That cross-the-border press conference staged to oppose local racists circulating hate literature was felt all the way down in Mississippi. Seems Jackie Bland and her family from Hattiesburg, Miss., visited …

• Political assertion has limit

  September 6, 2009 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 If you think the potential race between incumbent Mike Kennedy and challenger Jim Brannon is your typical City Council race, think again. Linda Cook has been busy soliciting $49 contributions …

• Racists see opportunity for growth

  July 19, 2009 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 Supremacist Richard Butler is dead and his compound bulldozed. But that doesn’t mean racism in this region or country has vamoosed, too. In fact, the Southern Poverty Law Center reports …

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