... that Coeur d'Alene Press Publisher Jim Thompson has been relieved of his corporate newspaper duties and busted back to a mere publisher in a Hagadone Newspaper shake-up. Seems newspaper chain owner Duane Hagadone is hosed that Brand X isn't living up to his profit standards. Thompson, as you may recall, won a power struggle with Tom Kurdy, a Coeur d'Alene native and Kalispell Daily Inter Lake publisher, a few years ago to oversee the Hagadone newspaper operations. Stay tuned ...

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