Chenoweth By Any Name Still In Office

Subscriber Linda Henderson has a sure-fire way to resolve the tempest in a teapot involving Congress(wo)man Helen Chenoweth’s preferred title. Why don’t we call her “representative”? asked Linda. That’s what she is. Linda figures reps prefer the congresssomething title because it sounds more important and has one fewer syllable. After all, observed Linda, you never hear U.S. senators refer to themselves as congressmen. I think she has something here.

Because you asked

That move to rename Rimrock Road after Martin Luther King Jr. never got off the ground. The Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations flirted with the idea for awhile. But human rights activists didn’t think they could get the required unanimous consent of Rimrock Road residents for the change - particularly from Richard Butler of the Aryan Nations. … Now, I’m not one to quibble (shaddup!), but CdA’s Pete Horolbeke, a.k.a. Peter Rivera, has a typo in his flier announcing a “Classic Rock All Stars” performance. Pete, an ex-member of the 1970s band Rare Earth, is getting together with some rocker friends to raise money for the CHS baseball diamond. But that’s not the way you spell “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.”

Fan mail

State Sen. Rex Furness, R-Rigby, didn’t like a Huckleberry Past that said he ambushed North Idaho College’s Bob Bennett at a joint finance committee meeting. Rather, Furness wrote in a two-page letter with 13 pages of supporting documents, he privately questioned a visit to Korea by President Bennett to a state Board of Education member. Furness wasn’t as impressed as I that Bennett used the trip to land $50,000 in tuition to educate 19 Korean exchange students. Furness also questioned the $1.6 million four-year college presidents spent on their offices and frills last year and the $500,000 colleges paid for unbid legal services. I’m glad Senator Penny Pincher is in there asking questions. … I also appreciated the fact that he faxed 16 pages with the notation: “Not printed at state expense.”

List of five

In her latest Hauser Thoughts, D.J. Nall provides some rules for surviving in Bosnia: 5. When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend. 4. Try to look unimportant. They may be low on ammo. 3. The easy way is always mined. 2. Incoming fire has the right of way. And (drum roll, please) 1. If the enemy is in range, so are you.

Huckleberries

A CPD Blue must have been suffering doughnut withdrawals when he ticketed carrier Melanie Emmett for driving on the wrong side of 15th Street as she delivered our newspaper. In subzero weather! At 3:50 in the morning! For crying out loud, Melanie should have been given a medal, instead of a $47 ticket. … Don’t They Have Anything Better To Do II: Then, there’s the CPD Blue who ticketed a car parked the wrong way on a snow-clogged street, belonging to a family visiting its pastor. Gotta keep a tight rein on the criminal element, right? … Kudos to the driver of the black Ford pickup parked at ShopKo Friday with this vanity plate: “HCKLBRY.” … Hayden Lake resident Pat Reagan has a reason for his vanity plate: “TKS NIC.” Pat won the first $165,000 home auctioned by the NIC Foundation auction. The really big auction now is in its third year. … Deep Thoughts by D.F.: Wasn’t it odd last week that our elected officials were in Boise lobbying for impact fees while floodwaters back home impacted us? … The NIC Sentinel staff must have crammed too hard for finals. The paper began the second semester recently with a front-page date of Dec. 14.

Parting shot

The Sentinel’s Chokecherries column took Prez Bennett to task for removing Boswell Hall bulletin boards. Seems the prexy thought they were tacky. Observed the chokemeisters: “If Bennett wants to remove something from that building, he should start with the new name for the auditorium.” (Attakids. Don’t let the Barry Schuler controversy die until you graduate.)

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