I Voted, Have You? 16
A voter gets a sticker from an election worker after voting in the midterm elections at the old Brown School Tuesday in rural Wellsville, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
TUESDAY, NOV. 4, 2014
Ybarra Catchphrase? You Betcha! 36
As promised, posts Kevin Richert/IdahoED NEWS, the Sherri Ybarra campaign announced the winners of its catchphrase contest Tuesday morning — as polls opened across the southern half of the state. The envelope, please.
Poll: Hospital Flu Shot Policy Backed
Monday Poll: Hucks Nation solidly backs the stand by Kootenai Health that requires all doctors, nurses & vendors to receive flu shots. 119 of 191 respondents (62.3%) support the policy. 68 of 191 respondents (35.6%) oppose it. 4 (2.09%) were undecided. Today's Poll: Are you…
What's Driving You To The Polls? 30
Which race do you find most interesting in today's General Election? Why?
Kerri: Hat Tip ... To Those Who Run 1
On her Facebook wall, Post Falls Councilwoman Kerri Thoreson posts: "Feeling empathy for all whose names appear on the ballot today, regardless of my intentions of casting my vote for them or not. Unless you've ever run for public office, at any level, there's no…
AM Headlines -- 11.4.14
Stewart Contracting employee Kelli Clark, left, waits for the next task while Collin Bohn directs the backhoe operator as they work to stabilize the banks of the Coeur d'Alene River at Kahnderosa RV Park & Campground in Cataldo, Idaho on Monday. The EPA project is…
Huckleberries Hears ... 16
... That there's a write-in for Mike Kennedy for county coroner in Precinct 62.
Press: Don't Expect Final Results 5
Note from the Coeur d'Alene Press: Barring a minor election-day miracle, The Press on Wednesday will not have final numbers from today's election. Kootenai County election officials have said they don't expect to have final results until approximately 2 a.m. Wednesday - well past the…
More Than Just A Few Bad Apples 7
In his weekly column in the Lewiston Tribune, conservative Michael Costello writes:
Editorialists ♥ Bad Officeholders 4
In the Lewiston Tribune, former Idaho Statesman editorial page editor Chuck Malloy writes:
Low Voter Turnout Expected Today 6
Cindy Lindquist, front, and Jean Seymour remove mail-in ballots from their envelopes in the Kootenai County Elections office on Monday afternoon. The polls opened at 8 today for the general election. (Photo: Coeur d'Alene Press)
Nelson Wants To Rehire Delevan 1
Info: Nelson plans to support Delavan: Official to call for reinstatement of former Cd'A airport manager/Jeff Selle, Coeur d'Alene Press
McEuen Opening Helps Library 2
Item: Library numbers reflect increases: Coeur d'Alene Annual Report reveals rise in many statistics/Coeur d'Alene Press
MONDAY, NOV. 3, 2014
Wild Card/Monday -- 11.3.14 14
We've arrived at the day before the election, with fear and trembling. Kootenai County is about to elect a GOP Extreme Team to the Legislature and, possibly, the Kootenai County Board of Commissioners. I don't expect it'll be good for governance. But it'll make for…
Parting Shot -- 11.3.14
Jason Kilborn sets up voting booths in the south concourse at the Kibbie Dome in Moscow earlier today. Kilborn and other workers from Latah County set up 120 voting boths in Moscow on Monday in preparation for Tuesday's election. (AP Photo/Moscow-Pullman Daily News, Geoff Crimmins)
KH Nurse Expects To Be Fired 31
In a special op-ed piece for the Coeur d'Alene Press Online, Kootenai Health critical care nurse Thomas Madison writes: "Soon, I will be fired. I am an experienced (25 years) and reliable employee in a field (critical care nursing) where there is a national shortage.…
Top Comments -- 11.3.14
Top Comment -- PatrickH (RE: Death with dignity advocate, RIP): I'm not sure I like the term, "death with dignity." ive known people who didn't have that option, or didn't take that option, and I don't think that they died without dignity, or that their…
PM Scanner Traffic -- 11.3.14
5:33 p.m. Semi truck high-centered @ Coeur d'Alene Library, 710 E. Front/CdA. 5:30 p.m. Driver of pickup spotlighting animals @ H97/MP 62 (Sunset Drive, near Harrison), possible poaching. 5:16 p.m. Animal left in vehicle @ McEuen Park, possible animal abuse. 4:46 p.m. 2-vehicle, rear-end, injury…
Return To Standard Time
It's dark at five, and sun is craved -- where's all that daylight that we saved?
Lake City Playhouse By Another Name 2
At the Inlander's Bloglander blog (say that fast a coupla times), Christian Vosler reports: "Recently merged thespian centers Interplayers Professional Theater and Lake City Playhouse announced today that they have a new name: The Modern Theater. Spokane's Interplayers Theater officially merged with Coeur d'Alene's Lake…
A Review: Patrick's Funeral 3
Above, after the funeral service Saturday afternoon, 50 friends and family of Get Out! North Idaho blogger Patrick Jacobs tied a bunch of orange balloons to the Allium Spring Chorus at McEuen Park, one of Patrick's favorite pieces of public art in town. (Photo: Kerri…
Death With Dignity Advocate, RIP 5
This undated photo provided by Compassion & Choices shows Brittany Maynard, a terminally ill woman. Sean Crowley, spokesman from the group Compassion & Choices, said late Sunday, that Maynard was surrounded by family Saturday when she took lethal medication prescribed by a doctor under Oregon's…
Tea Party? Liberty Caucus? What? 23
Duane Rasmussen and I have this ongoing disagreement re: what constitutes the tea party. He says that the tea party folded in Kootenai County when Phil and Leslie Damiano ended their Tea Party Patriots of North Idaho organization after being targeted by the IRS. I…
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