PM Scanner Traffic -- 9.3.15
Scanner Traffic for Thursday PM (21 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic with 9 more items) ...
Scanner Traffic for Thursday PM (21 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic with 9 more items) ...
Gonzaga released its non-conference schedule Thursday, which essentially amounted to filling out a few home matchups to go along with the previously announced marquee contests. Gonzaga’s men’s basketball schedule will take the Zags to Japan, the Bahamas and Dallas, and home against Pac-12 powers Arizona...
The Cutline Contest today features a brown chicken that decided to take a stroll at a tollplaze on San Francisco's Bay Bridge. Wednesday Winner: JohnA.
Among the 7 people who signed long-time Councilman Ron Edinger's candidacy petition were: Mayor Steve Widmyer, NIC board Chairwoman Christie Wood & local human-rights leader Tony Stewart. I was surprised that Edinger attracted the kind of political fire power to endorse his candidacy so early. How about you?
I mentioned yesterday that I felt pretty hip at a hipster coffee shop along the east side of Portland's river, with my Keens, blue jeans & orange T-shirt announcing life is good, over the weekend. But my daughter, Amy Dearest, pointed out those around our table who were truly Hipster. The Bard immortalizes the moment in rhyme ...
A scramble to add teachers and staffers in Vallivue, Twin Falls and beyond. A portable classroom building at Madison Junior High School. Emergency property tax collections. And perhaps, in Boise, an earlier-than-expected discussion about another building bond issue. Across many of Idaho’s largest districts, preliminary…
The daily roundup of HucksOnline blogosphere links includes: Our nephew/Simple Mind, Steady as she flows/On Tap, Sleep-watching TV/The Slice, Do not pass 'Go,' do not collect $200/Fort Boise, Coeur d'Alene seeks student reps/Coeur d'Alene Today & What's not to love re: college football?/A Grip on Sports.
A second challenger has filed for the Coeur d'Alene City Council Seat No. 5, now held by controversial Councilman Steve Adams. Bruce MacNeil, 524 N17th St/Coeur d'Alene, joins former county clerk Dan English in the race for Adams' council spot. Unlike the three candidates who…
Info on Tower Fire, near Priest Lake, from USFS/IDOL/Coeur d'Alene Tribe news release: Tower Fire – total acreage 24,450, 12% containment. Alaska IMT (Kurth); 8/11 lightning start, located 17 mi. north of Newport, WA and 6 mi. west of Priest Lake, ID. Fire personnel: 803.…
In a Moscow-Pullman Daily News editorial, opinion writer Bill McKee says actions by the New York Daily News in printing photos of on-camera murder hurts media's already bad image. (Question: Do you consider "media" to be a four-letter word?)
"It's been 30 years since a horse put me in the ER, but little Miss Z succeeded yesterday: I fell off during her moment of irrational exuberance, and I am a little beat up this morning. Nothing's broken, torn or misaligned ... and I did wear my helmet. This would have been a lot worse without the protective headgear" -- Pia Hallenberg/SR.
JohnA spotted this gal and her Beamer Buddy a half hour ago on Northwest Boulevard, in front of the Human Rights Education Institute. Question: Have you ever owned a convertible?
Rich Landers, the long-time outdoors editor and blogger for the SR, continues to praise the contribution of trophy hunters for the preservation of wildlife and the lands that support them. It's not just impressive, writes Rich, it's phenomenal.
Idaho’s state Parks Board today unanimously approved revised rules for corporate sponsorships in state parks, adding a clause that the state Legislature must approve any naming of a new or existing state park. The board would have authority to approve names for units within parks.…
Scanner Traffic for Wednesday AM (9 items) ...
A federal judge ordered a defiant county clerk to jail for contempt Thursday after she insisted that it would violate her conscience to follow court orders to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. Rowan County clerk Kim Davis and her deputy clerks were summoned to...
In Wednesday's poll, a supermajority of Hucks Nation indicated in one way or another that it doesn't follow football at the University of Idaho. Today's Poll: What should Whitworth do with 5 female soccer players who dressed as Jackson 5 in blackface?
AM Headlines for Thursday ...
The Idaho Freedom Foundation has filed a lawsuit against the Boise School District regarding funding of its union president position. According to the legal complaint, in May 2015, the Boise School District approved a contract with the Boise Education Association for 2015-16. The contract requires the district to pay $35,932 towards the salary ...
New vaccination exemption data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows Idaho led the nation for school immunization exemption rates during the 2014-2015 school year. According to map below, one in five kindergarteners in Bonner County had an exemption. Amazing.
Cindy & fam left the Houston airport giddy with the prospect of good, a dip in a hotel pool and a reunion with her No. 2 son. What she & and family got was 4 hours stuck at a Houston mini-mart because their rental car broke down. Maybe you can empathize?
In a HucksOnline comment, Sisyphus argues that Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis is violating the 1st Amendment by refusing to grant licenses to gay couples: "She isn't striking a blow for freedom. Just the opposite, she's trying to use her government position to assert power and control."
A former top adviser to Donald Trump’s campaign says he expects Trump will sign a pledge not to run as an independent should he fail to secure the Republican presidential nomination. Roger Stone, a former top adviser to Trump’s campaign, said on C-SPAN on Thursday…
Rachel Dolezal -- "everyone's favorite racially ambiguous person -- tells TMZ: "I'm pregnant." Have fun with that.
Spirits were high during a police training exercise Wednesday in Coeur d'Alene. Really high. A handful of volunteers spent the afternoon drinking alcoholic beverages under the watchful eyes of law enforcement officers. The goal was to get the drinkers to various levels of intoxication so…
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.
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