Applause rained down on former Coeur d'Alene High star QB Chad Chalich Saturday as throw by throw he became the leader of the UMontana Grizzlies. Theo Lawson/Idaho Statesman writes that Chalich envisioned such a scenario when he joined the UIdaho program. But found himself Velcroed to the Vandal bench.
In the Lewiston Tribune, Bill Hall writes: "Just as automobiles eventually took charge of us, we now have a world of dominant computers that stifle the minds of normal people. Computers and jargon-spouting techies now rule our lives and our bruised brains." Tongue firmly cheeked, Hall invites us to seek refuge from machines that control us.
Now that a spotlight has been shined on the group of legislators re-working Idaho tax policy behind closed doors, the co-chairs have declared: No more secrecy. Now, they're going to go about their business in public, observing the open-meeting law, etc. Question: Do you trust these birds any more now than when you first about their shenanigans?
A man wanted for more than two decades in the kidnapping, torture and rape of a woman who now lives in Hayden, Idaho, was arrested Monday in Mexico. Paul Erven Jackson, 45, had been at large since 1991. Mexican immigration authorities, working with the U.S. Marshals Service, arrested Jackson at a hotel in Guadalajara.
A Hauser woman convicted of pursuing a hunter's falcon was sentenced Monday in Kootenai County District Court to community service. Patti MacDonald, 60, was ordered by First Judicial District Magistrate Judge James Stow to complete 20 hours of community service by the end of the year and pay $500 in court fees.
The new regional mental health crisis center in Coeur d’Alene will be managed by someone who is no stranger to handling difficult, sometimes dangerous, situations in North Idaho. Longtime FBI agent Don Robinson was hired this month to fill the position of crisis and intervention services manager.
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.
