I hope you're watching the debates for mayor and council this afternoon on public TV. I'm at the forum listening to Dave Walker provide opening remarks for the Brannon-Kennedy debate, which will kick off tonight's forum. I'll post some observations in the comments section. You…
I'll be closing things down early this afternoon, so I can get to the Coeur d'Alene City Council debates for the opening bell at 5:30 p.m. The televised debates will be in the library meeting room downstairs. You can watch the even live on Woody…
In this magazine cover released by the Conde Nast Archive, the first cover photo by photographer Irving Penn is shown on the Oct. 1, 1943, cover of "Vogue". Penn, whose photographs revealed a taste for stark simplicity whether he was shooting celebrity portraits, fashion, still…
Levi Johnston is going for the ultimate exposure - his bare body. Posing nude for Playgirl is next for the 19-year-old father of Sarah Palin's grandchild. Johnston's attorney, Rex Butler, said Wednesday that a formal agreement has not been reached with the online magazine but…
Welcome to DialysisLand, best described as a room full of people needing to have their blood washed and toxins removed, all in a sterile setting with the humming of machines, swooshing of nurses (who call themselves techs), and the background sound of water whirling down…
4:29 p.m. R/P reports 2 men in a dark blue pickup removed a window screen to gain entrance to a River Heights/Post Falls home and then began removing items.4:12 p.m. Officer checking an ID learns the individual's name has legally been changed "from Edward to…
A carry team carries the transfer case containing the remains of Army Sgt. Joshua J. Kirk of South Portland, Maine, who died with seven others in Operation Enduring Freedom on Tuesday, during the dignified transfer event at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Del. Kirk…
Students from Tokyo who are studying in Boston, from left, Marina Arai, Hiromi Kuki, Emiri Imanishi and Sakiki Ikeda, try to get the attention of Boston Red Sox players during warm-ups before the start of a baseball game between the Cleveland Indians and the Red…
The last time around I actually went to the library and checked out Maya Angelou's I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. I would want my high schooler to read it. I would want every every young man and woman who lives in lily white…
With the high LDS population in Idaho, you'd think that an effort to outlaw smoking would be widely supported, but you'd be wrong. They reasons Mormons don't support it is, I think, are fold. One, basic Idaho libertarianism. Leave the smokers alone, plus, if you…
First, they were turned away from Fuddruckers, then Idaho Pizza Company, farther out. But here at Shari's, just west of the Idaho State Police building in Meridian, John Carter and Mike Ludlow are finally able to sit down to dinner, black Glocks still strapped to…
Former Idaho Sen. Larry Craig’s new consulting firm, New West Strategies, has been hired by Cassia and Minidoka counties to help Cassia County land a $300 million federal prison. The Twin Falls Times-News reports that both counties’ commissioners agreed Monday to pay Craig’s firm a…
Shrinking Dan of the County: I had a call from someone in one of the outlying towns the other day who wanted to know if it's legal for businesses to put campaign signs right on their building. I told him there is no election law…
A model falls as she presents a creation by Japanese fashion designer Junko Shimada for her spring summer 2010 ready-to-wear fashion collection Tuesday in Paris. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)Question: Have you ever suffered a pratfall in public?
JeanieS: The more I think about it, the more I believe we women are being charged extra because of our vagina. It bears our descendants, it gets fibroids, it cramps, it shrinks, it causes mood swings and hot flashes, it requires annual tests for cancer,…
Idaho Department of Fish and Game officials said a female wolf with the Phantom Hill pack was killed by a hunter, marking the 29th wolf kill since Idaho’s hunting season opened this year. Senior Conservation Officer Lee Garwood said the kill occurred in the Eagle…
From Kootenai County Republicans e-mailer: "The KCRR Board of Directors has formally endorsed its first two candidates although "There may be more to come, soon." says KCRR President Jeff Ward. In unanimous votes Betty Ann Henderson was endorsed for Post Falls City Council and Jim…
This artist's rendering released by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Tuesday shows the biggest but never-before-seen ring around Saturn, spotted by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The inset shows an enlarged image of Saturn, as seen by the W.M. Keck Observatory at Mauna Kea, Hawaii, in…
The Twin Falls County Republican Central Committee may make endorsements in the city's contested council race, a move that could add a new dimension to city elections this November as voters decide how to cast ballots. While Twin Falls city races, like other city races,…
This July 2009 self-portrait provided Tuesday by the Island County Sheriff’s Office shows Colton Harris-Moore. Harris-Moore is suspected in about 50 burglary cases since he slipped away from a halfway house in April 2008, including the possible theft of a Cessna from Bonners Ferry. The…
11:38 a.m. A red Cherokee has just been stolen from Beehive Homes on Sherman/CdA.11:25 a.m. A 64YO man is suffering chest pains behind Rathdrum police HQ.11:26 a.m. A woman on Hellroaring/Athol may be suffering a medical reaction to pain-killers she's taking for a broken rib.10:28…
OrangeTV: Anyway, I thought about attending this, but it conflicts with Karaoke night and I gotta keep my priorities straight, y'know. DFO, I expect a full mayoral fashion report, as usual.DFO: I can guess how some of them will be dressed now, before the red…
Kix is an excellent cereal. My mother would never buy me Frosted Flakes, Choc-o Sugar Bombs or anything like that, so I had to settle for Kix. At the time I hated it, but now, it is my food of choice, the one I turn…
(U.S. Rep. Pat) Toomey came within an eyelash of upsetting Pennsylvania's GOP Senator-for-life Arlen Specter in the 2004 Republican primary. Specter jumped to the Democrats to avoid a 2010 primary rematch. A funny thing, though: Even safe Republican districts often can't stomach the club's ideological…
A former California congressman who co-chaired the first Earth Day celebration in 1970 said Tuesday that today’s young people need to stand up more for what they believe in. “In 1970, those students changed the policy of the United States,” said Pete McCloskey, who served…
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.
