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MONDAY, NOV. 2, 2015

Wild Card/Monday -- 11.2.15 18 

I'm gone for 2 days -- and all heck breaks lose on the dirty tricks side of the political aisle. The (Brent) Regan Republicans who are wishin/hopin/prayin to expand an anti-urban renewal beach head on the Coeur d'Alene City Council were active in hammering two...

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Parting Shot -- 11.2.15 

Hana Blickenderfer, 4, of Hayden listens to music during Musical Monday at Hayden Library on Monday. The program is on the 1st and 3rd Monday of the month geared toward ages 2-6. (Kathy Plonka/photo)

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Facebook: Regan calls DFO 'ever feculent' 52 

On the wall of a mutual Facebook Friend, Brent Regan didn't react well to a post by a prominent Republican criticizing the last-minute, nasty attack by challenger Toby Schindelbeck on respected, long-time Councilman Ron Edinger. In fact, Regan used the opportunity to refer to Yours Truly as "ever feculent." Which hurt my wittle feewings.

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PM Scanner Traffic -- 11.2.15 

Scanner Traffic for Monday PM (26 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic with 13 more items) includes suicidal male who is hostile to law enforcement telling staff of Lake City Community Church that he wants to shoot himself & take as many cops with him as possible.

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Cutline Contest -- 11.2.15 16 

The Cutline Contest today involves DFO caught in a rare moment hoisting a feline who happens to be one of his 4 grandcats -- to of whom live in Portland, Ore., and 2 others in north-central Florida. DFO admits he was of sound mind when this photo was taken during a visit to Portland over the weekend.

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Crash with bull leads to fatal shootout 

A 62-year-old Idaho cattle rancher is dead after a fatal shooting involving Adams County Sheriff’s deputies. The shootout occurred after a station wagon hit the rancher's bull. Deputies were about to euthanize the injured bull after it charged emergency personnel & cars. That's when the rancher showed up with rifle in hand.

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Idaho to get 986 area code, too 

Idaho’s next area code, in addition to 208, will be 986. That news follows the Idaho Public Utilities Commission’s unanimous decision today to implement the new area code as a “geographic overlay,” meaning that it’ll go to new numbers statewide, starting in late 2017, but existing numbers will keep 208.

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HucksOnline Blogos -- 11.2.15

The daily roundup of links from HucksOnline blog roll includes: Hello, November/Simple Mind, Trick-or-treat head count/Slice, Deserved/undeserved/Faithful Geek, Turn that fork upside down/Fort Boise, Incumbent's advantage/David Frazier, Hawk defense missed one key tackle/Grip, Don't feed wild turkeys in surburbia/Outdoors + more ...

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Archives: When Adams called the cops 44 

Here's one last golden moment from hardline Councilman Steve Adams, who called 911 after he felt threatened by City Attorney Mike Gridley following a Coeur d'Alene City Council meeting on April 19, 2013. This post includes 3 links to the incident, a Coeur d'Alene Press editorial about Adams' temperment and, of course, the 911 call audio.

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Shoppers search for specials during Macy's Lenox Black Friday store opening on a Black Friday past in Atlanta. (John Amis/AP Images for Macy's)

November 

The Bard of Sherman Avenue says there's two things that we'll have to pay for in the month of November. You can find out what those two things are by checking below for his latest rhyme.

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Wedding flowers bring Hospice joy 

While tending garden at a local Hospice care facility one day, Shawn Chamberlain of the Flower Bar at Riverstone had a close encounter with a young, dying mother that launched a ministry of care. Now, Shawn's Full Blown uses flowers destined for the dump after the weddings to bring joy into the lives of Hospice patients.

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Yes, Hauser Lake entertains otters

When Brian Plonka first told his wife, Kathy, that there were river otters playing in Hauser Lake, my talented SR photog colleague thought her husband had seen muskrats. But Brian, an uber-talented photog, too, provided the photos to prove his claim. Two pair of River Otters have recently been spotted at 625-acre Hauser Lake.

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Hart re-buys home, misses payment 13 

Tax-protesting former Idaho State Rep. Phil Hart successfully re-purchased his Athol home from the IRS at a public auction last month, but he missed an Oct. 22 deadline to pay the balance of the purchase price and is now appealing in court for more time. The IRS seized Hart’s log home to help satisfy his more than $586,000 federal income tax debt.

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Museum to air new Scott Reed book

Before he died, the late Coeur d'Alene attorney Scott Reed, penned brief history of the dynamiting of the Bunker Hill Mine on April 29, 1899. Scott spotlights the coroner's report following the bombing and the labor unrest in the Silver Valley. His book will be introduced at a reception Wednesday in Wallace, featuring Scott's widow, Mary Lou Reed.

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Sightem ...

... On the Coeur d'Alene resort boardwalk during the noon hour -- Duane Hagadone. Hagadone and another man appeared to be inspecting the floating boardwalk and marina. It could be that he and Lola are in Coeur d'Alene later than usual in the fall, to…

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AM: Dolezal admits she's white 

AM Headlines for Monday includes confession made by controversial Rachel Dolezal on "The Real" talk show today that she is, indeed, white. Dolezal is the former NAACP chapter president from Spokane who made headlines in June when her face came into question. She also worked at CdA's Human Rights Education Institute.

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Poll: Plurality handed out candy

A plurality of Hucks Nation observed Halloween the old-fashion way -- by handing out candy to trick-or-treaters. However, another significant plurality ignored Halloween altogether Saturday night. Today's Poll: Are nasty, last-minute attack ads, fliers effective in a local campaign such as the Coeur d'Alene City Council elections?

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Fact-free (Ir)responsible CdA flier 37 

It looks as though the supporters of incumbent Councilman Steve Adams and newcomer challenger Toby Schindelbeck have been misfiring all weekend. The Responsible Coeur d'Alene PAC, funded largely by Brent Regan, claimed in a flier that Mayor Steve Widmyer & Councilman Dan Gookin backed Adams & Schindelbeck. Not so.

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CWM: Why Schindelbeck's flier grates 

CWM eloquently discusses something that came to mind when I read the material in an attack flier from Toby Schindelbeck's camp. Schindelbeck's supporters were outraged when this blog noted that he missed elections last May while tending to a dying father. Now, Schindelbeck's flier criticizes Ron Edinger for missing meetings while desperately ill.

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Obamacare insures 86,000 Idahoans 10 

For more than 86,000 Idahoans, health care reform has meant new, affordable options for health coverage, with an average premium, after federal subsidies, of just $65 a month. “Clearly, we offer a service that was needed,” said Pat Kelly, executive director of Your Health Idaho, Idaho’s state insurance exchange.

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Press employee foils kidnap try 

A Coeur d'Alene Press employee foiled a kidnap attempt by a knife-wielding male who worked on the Press newspaper dock early Sunday morning. A 27YO female was able to escape after she was taken to a van near the Press office. Jason A. Edwards, 44, was taken into custody by Coeur d'Alene police on a number of charges.

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In praise of urban renewal 

In a Facebook post, Jennifer Drake rejects those that she -- and I -- consider misguided in their never-ending attacks on urban renewal. Now, she said the attackers are trying to make in-roads into the Coeur d'Alene City Council by pounding the same drum. She says those who do fail to recognize the achievements of urban renewal.

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Schindelbeck attack appalls Edinger 17 

The Edinger campaign is appalled by a last-minute flier from opponent Toby Schindelbeck that attacks Edinger's council absences from May 2014 to February 2015 -- or approximately the time that Edinger was fighting for his life following a major surgery for a stomach aneurism.

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Sandy Patano, far right, and Tony Stewart speak to a group Friday at the Art Spirit Gallery during a press conference to address what they call a political attack on Coeur d’Alene City Councilman Ron Edinger. (Shawn Gust / Coeur d'Alene Press)

Alliance denounces PAC 11th-hour 'dirty tricks' 

An unusual alliance spoke out Friday against what it called “a last-minute attempt to deceive voters” in the Coeur d’Alene City Council races. Long-time Republican aide Sandy Patano and human-rights leaders Tony Stewart and Norm Gissel denounced PAC fliers that attacked incumbent Ron Edinger and challenger Dan English in council races.

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