In commenting on the article, "Biking Cross Country for a cause," Rhodetrip comments: "Avid mountain biker I am. Good for Gayle. 60 is the new 30." As someone who has been on the wrong side of 60 for 5 years, I've often wondered about that statement. Question: Do you really believe that 60 is the new 30 or 40?
Sen. Bob Nonini and Rep. Vito Barbieri are targets for Lewiston Tribune jeers this week. Why? Last year, Barbieri chastised colleagues about how much money they were spending. In 2012, Nonini sought to purge from the Senate Republicans he considered insufficiently pure. But when it comes to spending your money on their travel, the sky's the limit.
Gayle Fothergill, of Coeur d’Alene, has never attempted a multiday bicycle trek. In two weeks, she’ll start pedaling her first – a cross-country trek from Maine to Seattle, averaging 70 miles a day. Fothergill hopes to raise more than $4,000 for multiple sclerosis research as part of Bike the US for MS.
In an op-ed article in the Coeur d'Alene Press, Richard Armstrong, director of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, discusses the importance of the special session that begins Monday. And the need to hold parents accountable for child support. And the nonsense of 9 House Republicans who tried to kill this bill.
In an editorial today, the Coeur d'Alene Press gives community activist Anne Nesse a hat tip for persistence in trying to win approval to raise Idaho's minimum wage. Nesse and other organizers failed to get enough signatures to put the issue on either the Idaho or Coeur d'Alene ballots. But she soldiers on.
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.
