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TUESDAY, JAN. 9, 2007

Wild Card -- 1/9/07

You may have noticed that I've focused on local blogs and comments for my end-of-day wrapup this week. This includes looking for good material from the North Idaho/Friends blogs for wrapup commentary and possible questions (like Katrina's mention of bad days and Frum Helen Back's…

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Inside Huckleberries -- 1/9/07

*Trish Gannon/Wading in the River Journal alerts Huckleberries Online that the new issue of the RJournal (Bonner/Boundary counties and northwestern Montana) is now online here and that she has written her first "Behind the Scenes at the River Journal" post here.*Huckleberries hears ... that the…

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Top Cutlines -- 1/9/07

An unidentified Ohio State band member shows his spirit with his hair cut in the shape of an "O" at the BCS national championship football game in which Florida upset his Buckeyes 41-14 Monday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)Top Cutlines1. Either the percussion…

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Scooby Doo Creator Takamoto, 81, R.I.P.

The Scooby-Doo balloon floats down Broadway in the rain during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York in this Nov. 23 file photo. Iwao Takamoto, who created Scooby-Doo, died Monday of heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Warner Bros. spokesman Gary Miereanu said. He…

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Bearable Bob: CDA, Spokane Not All That Purty

Bearable Bob: Spokane occupies a barely visually acceptable transition zone of sparsely wooded ponderosa pine forests and an average river between the shockingly dull channelled scablands of Central Wa and the clearcut meadows of the weak Rocky Mt foothills of North Idaho. The entire area…

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Spokesman-Review: Too Many Guns

Full editorial hereIn Washington and Idaho, gun laws contain way too many loopholes. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence gives Washington's gun laws a D+, Idaho's an F+. And Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels has joined the call for tighter gun restrictions, such as the…

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Commission: Exhibitionist Deputy Can't Be Fired

His family and attorney flank Spokane Deputy Joseph Mastel, top center, Monday, to hear his fate from a Civil Service Commission regarding his lewd behavior while on duty/Brian Plonka, Spokesman-Review.Issue: Deputy's firing overruled: Spokane detective who exposed self to woman wins appeal, unpaid leave/Jonathan Brunt,…

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Online Poll -- Favorite Post-WWII Prez

Since World War II, who is your favorite ex-president? -- Lewiston Tribune*Franklin Roosevelt*Harry Truman*Dwight Eisenhower*John Kennedy*Lyndon Johnson*Richard Nixon*Gerald Ford*Jimmy Carter*Ronald Reagan*George H.W. Bush*Bill Clinton DFO: Reagan

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Huckleberries Online

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.