News consumers too busy for crusading columnists and talk-radio screeds might find the bite-size commentary they crave in a Spokane Valley blogger's biting limericks. Inspired by winning The Spokesman-Review's annual Limerick Contest last month, Michael Andrews launched 29 Words or Less on April Fools' Day…
No one, including Spencer, is willing to say flat out he opposes the center, especially as it enters the final stages of local fundraising to lock up the Kroc grant and endowment. The local effort must raise $1.6 million between now and the end of…
Los Angeles Times story, photos about Duane Hagadone's mansion in the desert here'A blight." "A monstrosity." "A pimple." "An abortion" of city planning. That's how Palm Desert residents have described Duane Hagadone's mega-mansion as it nears completion in the viewscape of the Santa Rosa Mountains…
I didn't check in here much Saturday. Too busy gardening. Relaxing. And even watched "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" again tonight. Wow! I forgot how good that movie was. Ditto for the first two. All of us Tolkien fans owe director Peter…
In Palm Springs there's distress and dismay,Because Hagadone's gotten his way,With sweet talk and lies,Can Idaho sympathize?"Here, have a geranium bouquet!"Andy Michaels/29 Words Or LessItem: Battling the monster on the hill: Publishing tycoon Duane Hagadone's Palm Desert neighbors consider his dream castle a $30-million offense…
Labrador puppies swarm Tipsy the cat as she walks in the backyard Friday in Fort Smith, Ark. The 15 puppies are owned by James and Alicia Fisk. (AP Photo/ Times Record, Kaia Larsen)
Anytime you hear a threat, take it seriously. Ask for more information until you can determine what is behind the phrase spoken. Once you understand enough about what the person is really saying, you are in a better position about how to respond. Then act…
Item: Predictions of the Year 2000 from The Ladies Home Journal of December 1900The Ladies Home Journal from December 1900, which contained a fascinating article by John Elfreth Watkins, Jr. “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years”. Mr. Watkins wrote: “These prophecies will seem…
A Token D: Help! Ever since those moving advertisments started appearing on the left side of the screen, my Explorer keeps crashing when I browse HBO.Green Libertarian: A Token D ... I hear ya ... I don't use Internet Explorer, I use Firefox, and it's…
Dan of the County: I heard one of those radio ads on the way home from work (and often see them in print) where they are trying to sell you a speed reading program. They usually say something like, "wouldn't you like to read x-times…
I've been enjoying another interesting week at Huckleberries Central. The numbers remain solid. The material is good. The clock is ticking down toward the weekend. I hope you've been enjoying the ride as much as I have this month. However, there's always room for another…
... Huckleberries hears that Spencer visited the Press today to complain to Editor Mike Patrick that the city is picking on him re: the Architects West incident. A Berry Picker told me that Spencer's trying to persuade Patrick to write a story about the fact…
AP Photo/Channi AnandYoung boys ride buffaloes in the River Tawi in Jammu, India, Friday, April 20, 2007. With the onset of summer, several places in northern India have peaked above 40 degrees Celsius. You write the cutline.Top Cutlines1. Some people found Global Warming provided some…
... CdA office editorial assistant Sherry Atkins passes along a poster for the 3rd Annual Hooters on Scooters Dusty Cleavage Ladies Ride Poker Run. Seems the Panhandle Trail Riders Association is putting on the event Sunday, April 29, beginning at 7-Mile ORV Park, wherever that…
I thought I'd heard everything. But did you know this is national 4-20 Day. 4-20? Indeed, it's the high holy day of -- pot smokers. Seems potheads are suppose to light up at 4:20 in the afternoon to celebrate their vice. That means the potheads…
My son and I cover so many topics of learning in any given week of homeschooling, it's hard to know just what sticks in his brain and what doesn't. Today we were driving into Spokane when my son said, "The people who built this city…
AP Photo/Susan WalshPregnant Congresswoman Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., 37, in her Capitol Hill, Office this week. While campaigning last summer for a second term, McMorris Rodgers learned that she was in the first term of pregnancy. She chose not to reveal the pregnancy until…
... that City Hall is checking to see if antagonist Larry Spencer misrepresented himself when he asked Architects West recently to see plans for the Kroc Center. Reportedly, Spencer appeared at Architects West and said something to the extent: "The Mayor asked me to come…
Item: Psychiatrists: Disturbing screenplays just 1 sign university shooter might turn violent/Associated PressCho is not the first killer to have his writing scrutinized in the aftermath of his crime. "Vengeance is coming," Kimveer Gill wrote in a blog entry before shooting six people to death…
Item: Battling the monster on the hill: Publishing tycoon Duane Hagadone's Palm Desert neighbors consider his dream castle a $30-million offense against nature (complete with photo gallery)/Valerie Reitman, L.A. Times.Hagadone's place is being built in the hill above the home in the foreground. The times…
-You had no idea that the "Dike Road" was really named "Rosenberry Drive."-You remember Seltice as "the Highway".-You went to YJ's for "smokies", to see the elk in the pen, and have a free sausages as a kid.-You ate at Little Big Man Pizza (now…
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I've been office bound all week. No wi-fi'ing. But that's OK. It's been a productive week. And a lot of interesting things are going on behind the scenes. I enjoyed my chat with Harry Amend today. I need to finish up my editorial re: the…
Toadman/Synaptic Disunion introduces us to his third little pollywog with the words: "These are my eyes. I have never seen anything with them. Look into my eyes and see the mystery that is life. Hello, world here.*Wayward Episcopalian Nathan Empsall writes from Dartmouth: "It's hard…
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.
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