As you can see below, the SR endorsements were published today for the City Council races in Coeur d'Alene and Post Falls. No close calls in Coeur d'Alene. The Hissong-Alexander and Thoreson-Johnson races were close calls. I guess this signals the official beginning of the…
Full post w/fun map function hereNew October 2007 quarterly campaign finance reports show that among presidential candidates, Mitt Romney raised the most of the pack in Idaho – $457,248 – followed by Rudy Giuliani with $161,500, John McCain with $77,694 and Barack Obama with $48,175.…
Toby Talbot/AP PhotoFour Holsteins peer from a barn doorway at the Lilley Hill Farm in Calais, Vt., Monday. You write the cutline.Top Cutlines1. After his interview with Senator Craig, Matt Lauer witnesses more of his bullsh@t out back -- John Austin.2. Jim Brannon, Al Hassell,…
After seeing “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” this evening, I had to agree that it wasn’t a complete fantasy. There was an English queen in 1585, and her name was Elizabeth. Pretty much everything else is a wash. But even if you could make a case…
*You can find all the published candidate profiles for the City Council races in Coeur d'Alene, Post Falls and Rathdrum here. Also, the site takes you to audio links for the interviews conducted by Erica Curless with Ron Edinger and Dan Gookin.*I forgot to mention…
... Why Bob Templin's concerned about preserving the non-historic current Post Falls City Hall ... when he tore down the old Weekly Advance newspaper building in 2005 and razed the Don's Pool Hall block with some historic buildings about a decade earlier? Anyone?
Surprise, surprise. Dick Cheney and Barack Obama are cousins. Eighth cousins --distant enough they could marry in states that recognized gay unions, but I digress. While researching her ancestry for her new book, "Blue Skies, No Fences," a memoir about growing up in Wyoming, Lynne…
Warning: Liberal use of the BS wordPoll: (BS) Is Most Important Issue For 2008 VotersFor a majority of likely voters, meaningless (BS) will be the most important factor in deciding who they will vote for in 2008. Hat Tip: Ralph Bartholdt
... hereQuestion: Is this the proverbial "a pox on both houses" from the American people? What should R's and D's read from this poll?
Full column by Dan Popkey hereThere is a model for the rehabilitation of a disgraced senator, and Sen. Larry Craig knows it well. Craig sat on the Ethics Committee that recommended the expulsion of his friend Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore. After the committee's unanimous vote…
Kathy Plonka/Spokesman-Review"They make plenty of money off of this stuff," said Ronald M Wadford while drinking a beer at the Tam O'Shanter bar in Sandpoint on Tuesday. Sandpoint voters will decide in November whether to adopt a 2 percent "drink tax" on the by-the-glass sales…
Item: Spokesman-Review endorses Edinger, Hassell, Bruning for Coeur d'Alene City Council/SR Editorial BoardOf Ron Edinger: Much of Edinger's success over the years owes to his candor and independence as well as his understanding of the plight of average citizens. Of Al Hassell: Hassell has demonstrated…
Dan Popkey raises a good point about Larry Craig's likely future ambition to cash in by becomming a lobbyist. We often seem to assume he's going to go quietly away, back to Midvale. Of course he wants to cash in, which makes this whole, weird,…
Some things don't change, even in our ever-changing world. Take show-and-tell, for example. Or, as it's called in one local kindergarten class, "show-and-hotel." A kindergarten teacher who chooses to remain anonymous writes an entertaining blog about her experiences in the classroom: A Butterfly Moment. Recently,…
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.
