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FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2012

MWC TO Idaho: Don't Call Us ... 

The University of Idaho has been left high and dry by all the shakeups in the landscape of college football. But that's okay. The Vandals are not bitter. Or so they say. Speaking to reporters in a teleconference on Friday, Idaho Athletic Director Rob Spear…

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Loss Stirs Memories Of Beloved Pets 

I’ve got dogs, cats and a possum in mind: Pete, George, Minou and now Ellie. The possum was nameless, as were the other small critters that my brother and I interred in our little pet cemetery in the field across the street, by the creek…

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Johnson: The Great Rivera Is Out 

I’m no Yankee fan and Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) said it for all time in A League of Their Own, “there’s no crying in baseball,” but every fan has to be moved by the awful image of the greatest closer in the history of the…

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TGIF Wild Card -- 5.4.12 

I didn't hear Mary Souza or Kathy Sims on KVNI/ESPN 1080 radio this morning, spinning their respect visions of the attempted overthrown of Coeur d'Alene city government and urban renewal. I imagine I can guess what was said. Mary: Yes, the recaller provided misinformation when…

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PM Headlines -- 5.4.12

Walla Walla Sweets Rollergirls' Jammer "Lois Slay'n" and Rodeo City's "Not This Girl" collide on a corner during first half action of their weekend, season opening bout at the YMCA in Walla Walla, Wash. Most women who compete in Roller Derby leagues don't use their…

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Big Sky Would Welcome UIdaho 

The Big Sky Conference is "basically sitting and watching and seeing where all the chips fall," Associate Commissioner Ron Loghry said. The Big Sky has 13 football-playing schools and 11 all-sport members. UC Davis and Cal Poly are football-only members. The league would like to…

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PM Scanner Traffic -- 5.4.12 

3:51 p.m. R/P reports suspicious gray sedan w/tinted windows & spoiler shows up around Woodland Middle School daily but doesn't pick up children. 3:37 p.m. Female in Chevy Silverado wants help picking up furniture & boxes of clothing that have fallen out of the pickup…

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Annie Got Her Gun Taken Away 

Here's another personal favorite from the latest Downtown Coeur d'Alene Bar Report: "Officers responded to the Rendezvous regarding a gun that had been taken from a 'crazy woman' the previous evening. According to the bouncer, he had started to follow a group of people when…

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KEA Lauds Neighborhood Zone Idea 

We caught this press release (pdf) over at Huckleberries Online, and it is an important development in Kootenai County’s ULUC land use code project. One of the major difficulties in any zoning code overhaul is what to do with properties that already exist and would…

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Loch Ness Monster Gets Evicted

A sculpture resembling the Loch Ness monster rises out of the Chippewa River in Eau Claire, Wis. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources views the sculpture as an illegal obstruction to a navigable waterway and wants it removed. A person claiming to be the creator…

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Lawmaker Fights To Live In Business 

Republican state Rep. Joe Palmer, pictured, sold his home in 2010 to save money, but now he's fighting with the city of Meridian over whether he and his wife can sleep in the back of their consignment furniture business. Palmer is appealing a ruling by…

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Anti-Recallers Hail Orzell Admission

Organizers of the Stop the Recall movement are asking their followers to let them know if anyone tries to misstate facts about the recall to them in order to get them to sign their petitions. The request comes after RecallCDA leader Frank Orzell admitted the…

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Adam Yauch, 47, Beastie Boys, RIP 15 

Adam Yauch, the gravelly voiced Beastie Boys rapper and the most conscientious member of the seminal hip-hop group, has died. He was 47. Yauch's representatives confirmed that the rapper died Friday morning in New York after a nearly three-year battle with cancer. Also known as…

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May The Fourth Be With You 10 

May 4 has become an unofficial nerd holiday for Star Wars fans as Star Wars Day — since "May the Fourth be with you" and "May the Force be with you" do sound nicely alike, after all. Writer John Jackson Miller is just one of…

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Tondee Fires Back At Spencer Claims 19 

And now a message from Commissioner Todd Tondee (via Taryn Hecker's Facebook wall): "I was at the Republican Women monthly meeting today and stressed that please ask before just believing what my opponent is saying. We are not building a parking garage. We are brainstorming…

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Canada Mints Nation's Last Penny 

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty holds the last penny struck in Canada at the Royal Canadian Mint in Winnipeg, Manitoba, today. Flaherty announced in the March budget that the coin would no longer be produced because the cost of making it is more than it's worth.…

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AM Scanner Traffic -- 5.4.12

12:06 p.m. Fast Trip, H95 & Hayden, reports employee has received threatening message. 11:45 a.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activities report for May 3-4 here. 11:37 a.m. Patrol officer removes piece of metal from middle of Govt Way & Dakota/Hayden. 11:26 a.m. Business @ 414…

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Limited Support For Ultrasound Bill 

Patti Anne Lodge says she asked, on three occasions, for supporters to rewrite their controversial ultrasound bill. That didn’t happen. “I did not appreciate having to vote on that bill,” Lodge, R-Caldwell, told the Statesman editorial board Monday. Ultimately, as a pro-life Catholic, she said…

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Hart-To-Kelso Payment Brings Jeers 

Marty Trillhaase/Lewiston Tribune gives JEERS ... to Rep. Phil Hart, R-Athol. Leave it to Idaho's perennial political bad boy. In addition to owing $550,000 to the feds and another $53,000 to the state while stealing state endowment timber to build his log home, he's now…

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AM Headlines -- 5.4.12 

Camille Workman, center, and her son, Cole Hayes, young boy at right, watch the casket of husband and stepfather, Army Sgt. Chris Workman, after a funeral service in Eagle on Thursday afternoon. Workman, 33, was killed in a helicopter crash April 19 in Afghanistan, on…

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Carlson: A 'Dereliction Of Duty' 14 

Occasionally politics gives rise to an all-encompassing phrase that means more than the words themselves. During the mid-1950s Senate hearings on the excesses of Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy's red-baiting rhetoric, the committee counsel asked a memorable question: "Have you no decency, Senator? It was and…

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County Proposes New Zoning District 

Kootenai County’s ordinance consultant, Kendig Keast Collaborative, is proposing a new zoning district; Neighborhood Conservation (NC). This district would be applied to numerous established areas of Kootenai County. In this new district, ten sub-districts are proposed, each of which corresponds to an existing neighborhood pattern.…

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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.