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MONDAY, AUG. 10, 2015

Wild Card/Monday -- 8.10.15 

I survived a weekend involving a lot of physical labor -- first, washing mold from one relatives house and then tearing out vinca vine that had taken over one portion of my back yard. Ripping out vinca vine with a Pulaski isn't that much fun....

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Parting Shot -- 8.10.15

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, right center, and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, third from left, participate in the Ice Bucket Challenge with its inspiration Pete Frates, seated in center, to raise money for ALS research today at the Statehouse in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

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Keough 'Honored' By Appointment 

Sen. Shawn Keough, R-Sandpoint, the newly appointed co-chair of the Legislature’s Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee said Monday, “It’s a wonderful appointment – I’m very honored.” Keough, who long served as vice-chair to then-Senate Finance Chair Dean Cameron, R-Rupert, said, “I feel like I have some pretty big shoes to fill.”

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PM Scanner Traffic -- 8.10.15

Scanner Traffic for Monday PM (22 items & counting + AM Scanner Traffic w/16 more items) includes injury accident @ 5:21 p.m. @ Pleasant View Prairie Ave & screaming Triple Play customer who threatened to get a gun ...

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Liver Redux 

As you know, the lead to my Sunday Huckleberries column involved my dislike for liver. We discussed this here last week, too. Well, I received two emails over the weekend from Spokane readers who love liver. I'm not making this up. (Question: Anyone out there eat liver on a regular basis?)

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Cutline Contest -- Time2Vote 14 

Today's Cutline Contest features a display at a Lansing, Mich., taxidermy shop, using stuffed chipmunks to focus on this year's game between Michigan State and University of Michigan. Weekend Winner: FishInJay.

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10 Reasons Post Falls Isn't Boring 

Chanse Watson, who reports and helps compile Idaho Panhandler, was reared in Post Falls. So he reacted to that Top 10 list that placed Post Falls at No. 2 among the most boring places in Idaho. In a link below, he posts 10 reasons why Post Falls isn't the second most boring place in the Gem State. (Question: Is Post Falls boring?)

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Q&A With CSD Trustee Morrisroe 

The Coeur d'Alene Press conducted a Q-and-A with one of the two new trustees for the Coeur d'Alene School District: "Casey Morrisroe is a family man with a vision and heart for education. He was born in Pasadena, Calif., and moved to Hayden Lake in 1985 upon entering the fourth grade." More below.

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A grizzly bear is shown near Beaver Lake in Yellowstone Park in 2011. (AP file photo)

HucksOnline Blogos -- 8.10.15 

Daily roundup of HucksOnline blogosphere links includes SR Outdoors report that grizzly sow that killed hiker in Yellowstone Park will be euthanized + 50s revolution/Bay Views, Crutch words/Faithful Geek, Yum-yum time/Slight Detour, Dropping a bombastic/On Tap, An encounter with a clerk/The Slice, Sunday: Good day for books/Simple Mind ...

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Crapo Fights SSA 'Gun Grab' 

News release from U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo's office: Idaho Senator Mike Crapo is leading a group of 25 senators in calling on the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) to halt its plan to unfairly target the Second Amendment rights of millions of Social Security beneficiaries....

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McCall To Vote On Minimum Wage 

An initiative has been placed on the Nov. 3 ballot by the McCall City Council. A group called FairWageMcCall gathered 416 qualified signatures, far more than the needed 196 to move the wage petition to the ballot. Under state law, the council had the option…

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Idaho To Pay $900K For Losing Cases 13 

Idaho’s top elected officials agreed today to pay out nearly $900,000 from the state’s Constitutional Defense Fund, plus interest, to the winning parties in three lawsuits for their attorney’s fees and costs – the same-sex marriage case, the case that overturned an unconstitutional anti-abortion law, and the Occupy Boise case.

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Dunno which of Cindy's male family members is holding these Seattle Seahawks sports garb for pets. But I suspect he didn't have a choice. (Cindy Hval)

Is It OK To Dress Pets? 14 

Asking for, ahem, a friend, Cindy wonders if it's OK to dress up your pets. Just the thought causes me to shudder. Occasionally, Mrs. O bundles Huckleberry up when the weather's supper chill outside. I'm somewhat OK with that because Huck, after all, is a girl. She looks good in pink. I'm not sure my 2 earlier male dogs would.

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Don't Celebrate Wilderness Bill 

Chris Carlson of the Carlson Chronicle says the Boulder-White Clouds wilderness bill is nothing to celebrate: "Those singing the praises of the recently passed and signed legislation creating a modest new wilderness area in the high mountain regions of the Boulder/White Clouds are trying to sell a 'Pig in the Poke.'"

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Suicide Preventer Kills Himself 17 

Peter Wollheim, 67, a retired communications professor at Boise State University, died July 21 at his Boise home, the university said in a press release. Family and friends confirmed the circumstances of his death. “Peter was always so generous of spirit and service, but as much as he wanted to help, he just couldn’t do it anymore," a friend said.

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Is Health Insurance A Right? 40 

Thank goodness for health insurance. That’s what I thought when I was stuck in Coeur d’Alene with a malfunctioned insulin pen, and discovered what the replacement cost would be without insurance. I couldn’t get just one pen; I had to get five, and the retail…

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AM Headlines -- 8.10.15

AM Headlines for Monday includes: Idaho Records/Press, Spokane man drowns/Press, 3 Sisters fire 80% contained/Press, Post Falls PD investigates shooting/Press, Kathleen Avenue project starts today/Press, Thunderstorms, more heat due over region/SR, Woman OK after driving down Fernan Lake bank/KXLY + more ...

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Urban Renewal Study Begins 

A legislative interim committee on urban renewal has kicked off an all-day meeting today, with Sen. Dan Johnson, R-Lewiston, the co-chair, saying it will look at past changes to Idaho’s urban renewal laws, other possible changes, or perhaps no changes. Coeur d'Alene's 2 urban renewal critics, Sims & Souza, are part of this committee.

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Keough To Co-Chair JFAC 

Republican state Sen. Shawn Keough of Sandpoint has been appointed to co-chair Idaho's powerful budget-setting committee. President Pro Tem Brent Hill of Rexburg on Monday announced that Keough will replace former Sen. Dean Cameron of Rupert, who left the Idaho Legislature earlier this year to lead the state Department of Insurance.

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SR Editor Explains Paywall 13 

Gary Graham, editor of The Spokesman-Review, explains the paywall launched for the SR's online edition July 28: " The latest step toward improving The Spokesman-Review’s revenue standing is the introduction of a website paywall designed to ask readers to support our journalism by paying for it."

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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.