A new poll released by Chegg Media Center on Tuesday finds Sanders the overwhelming favorite on college campuses, drawing 59 percent of the student vote. Former first lady Hillary Clinton draws just 18 percent support from the coveted college bloc. (Question: Um, does this poll matter? Do college students vote?)
In an editorial this morning, Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune comments that Congressman Raul Labrador and 30 others are wrong in opposing any spending bill that keeps the federal government open after Sept. 30 unless Planned Parenthood's federal funds are cut off.
A Colorado woman is using social media to locate the mother who abandoned her 25 years ago in Coeur d'Alene. Andrea Klug-Napier now wants to find her birth mother or any information she can about the unknown woman who told nurses she was from San Diego. (Question: Are you or a member of your family adopted?)
In an editorial today, the Moscow-Pullman Daily News commented that University of Idaho alumni are more humiliated by the actions of the athletic department in trying to cover up player misbehavior than by the mounting number of losses by the Vandal football team.
A scientist from ZooMontana in Billings will conduct a teleconference with the Dalton Gardens City Council to discuss a vaccine that will prevent troublesome urban deer from reproducing as much.
In a letter to the Coeur d'Alene Press editor, Larry Spencer criticizes the Press for acknowledging the Coeur d'Alene Indian Tribe's annual contribution to area schools. The tribe, Spencer says, is obligated to provide that money to schools under a compact hammered out with the state that permitted its Coeur d'Alene Casino.
Idaho state Sen. Mary Souza hopes ideas to improve urban renewal laws in Idaho are flowing freely this afternoon. That's when she is scheduled to meet with the board of directors for ignite cda, Coeur d'Alene's urban renewal agency. "I'm not trying to make anything confrontational," Souza said Tuesday.
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.
