In his travels as a Montana newspaper executive, Dave Keyes spotted this informational sticker on a vehicle in a parking lot in Livingston, Mont. In Montana, the "hanging needs" might mean different things to different people. Dave is the former publisher of the Bonner County Daily News.
Betsy Russell, of Eye on Boise, picks up on the controversy involving the secretive Kootenai County Republican Concerned Citizens PAC that shares the same acronym as the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee. Jeff Ward of Reagan Republican Victory Fund has criticized the naming of the KCRCCPAC as "definitely deceptive."
In a recent edit, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune says minimum wage earners in Idaho have no where to turn for better entry wages, than to leave the state. The federal government and the state of Idaho has turned their backs on them. Worse still, Idaho has passed a law blocking local governments from addressing the issue.
Shawn Vestal and Sam Ligon are friends. And it was a happy accident that both writers are releasing books in April, just in time for Get Lit, Eastern Washington University’s annual literary festival. Vestal has just written his first novel, "Daredevils." Ligon has two books out, "Wonderland," and "Among the Dead and Dreaming."
About 14 percent of the Spokane River basin’s snowpack melted away over the past couple of weeks. Sunny skies weren’t responsible for the rapid snow loss. The culprit was nighttime mountain temperatures that were 10 to 15 degrees warmer than normal. “We’re not cooling off enough at night to freeze things up,” said Scott Pattee.
Now that Idaho finally has a nominee for its vacant federal judgeship, state 6th District judge David Nye, Idaho Sen. Jim Risch is defending the lengthy, secretive process he and Sen. Mike Crapo followed over the past 19 months to vet potential nominees, saying anything else would have violated the U.S. Constitution.
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.
