After two years of having others speak for him, former Coeur d'Alene City Council candidate Jim Brannon emerged from the shadows to discuss at Lake City Development Corp in an OpenCDA.com comment thread today. Mary Souza launched the thread under a headline, "What's the Truth…
Construction is well underway on Phase 1-A of the Education Corridor project. Currently River Avenue is closed while pavement and sidewalk removal takes place to allow for underground utility work. The entrance to campus via Park Drive off of Northwest Boulevard is still open and…
"But it’s no surprise that the McGee story spread rapidly Sunday, over the Internet and via social media," writes Kevin Richert/Idaho Statesman in his blog. "It’s a different world from 1992, when then-Lt. Gov. Butch Otter was arrested on a drunken-driving charge. Convicted a year…
The City of Airway Heights City Council passed a new firework restrictions ordinance at the June 20th city council meeting. The new section says that fireworks shall not be allowed on city property, school property, and vacant lots and fields. Except by approval of the…
On his newspaper blog, Kevin Richert of the Idaho Statesman writes: Bloomberg.com profiled Idaho Gov. Butch Otter — and his states' rights philosophy — in a lengthy feature this week. Alison Vekshin's lead set the tone for what followed: "Otter pulled a pocket-sized Constitution from…
Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, Republican presidential hopeful Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Gov. Butch Otter arrive in Idaho Falls Monday. Romney has received wide-spread support from Idaho GOP leaders in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination. (AP Photo/Post Register: Robert Bower) Idaho Records/Sherry…
Item: Fresh Start grows stale: Petition says homeless centercauses too many problems/Tom Hasslinger, CdA Press More Info: A group of neighbors is circulating a petition to get Fresh Start to move from East Sherman Avenue. They want the homeless service center to relocate to an…
(Coeur d'Alene Councilman John Bruning, pictured) noted that his city's population grew by more than 9,600 people in the past decade, nearly 28 percent growth since 2000. “Coeur d'Alene grew at a faster pace than the overall state of Idaho, for many good reasons,” Bruning…
British author J.K. Rowling reacts as she poses for photographers during a photo call for her new website project Pottermore at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London on Thursday. For the project she has written new material about the characters, places and objects in…
Idawa: I hope their “mormon” faith isn’t an issue for either of them (GOP prez candidates Jon Huntsman and Mitt Romney) with voters, but I’m sure that their primary competition will sure make it one. Out of the field, Huntsman seems like he has the…
Cindy: Speaking of bike/ car accidents … My husband bikes to work. On his way home this evening, as he was minding his own business in the MARKED BIKE LANE, a guy pulled up next to him, honked loudly and yelled, “You are NOT A…
Duane Rasmussen: I attended the first half hour of the meeting. I counted six people on the stage and thirty in the audience. Nine of the people in the audience were children. Bruce Maddox, Paul Mathews, Mike Oliver, Roger Benoit, Tom Robinson, and Bjorn Handen…
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.
