North Idaho Fair sales set record 2
Alexcia Jordan, assistant GM, said total sales were up about 20% ($151,000) from last year and set an all-time North Idaho Fair record based on preliminary figures. Brian Walker/Press reports below.
TUESDAY, AUG. 30, 2016
MONDAY, AUG. 29, 2016
Wild Card/Monday 1
Coeur d'Alene City Administrator Jim Hammond dropped by this AM with an old Spokesman-Review political cartoon by Milt Priggee, my old editorial board colleague. The cartoon showed Post Falls signing away its soul to a developer planning a huge project across the freeway from Riverbend....
Parting Shot
Nesrine Kenza who says she is happy to be free to wear a Anchorburkini, and two unidentified friends rest on the beach in Marseille, France, Monday. A high court struck down the previous ban of the wearing of so called burkini Friday, but the debate revealed raw tensions between the secular establishment & France's 5M Muslims.
Child dies from head injury 8
The Coeur d'Alene Police Department has announced that a 17MO child who suffered severe head injuries recently died at Sacred Heart Medical Center. 31YO Joseph John Davis, the child's stepfather, was arrested Friday evening at a 5th Street address in Coeur d'Alene. CPD and prosecutors are looking at new criminal charges to file against Davis.
PM Scanner Traffic -- 8.29.16
Scanner Traffic for Monday PM (19 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic with 15 more items) ends with some screwball on a motorcycle popping wheelies in Coeur d'Alene Library parking lot
Cutline Contest -- Time2Vote 15
The Cutline Contest for today features Trump supporters at a "Latinos for Trump" rally yelling at passing drivers. Weekend Winner: gitrdun.
Ex-Lakeland super seeks NIC post 3
Brad Murray, the former Lakeland School District superintendent of schools, announced his candidacy for election to the North Idaho College Board of Trustees today. He will seek the new Zone 5 trustee position.
And voila ... there was a moose 2
Facebook Friend Debra Cashman didn't exactly pull a rabbit out of her hat. Rather, she pulled a moose out of it. She didn't exactly have a hat. Just good timing during a drive with her hubby Sunday night.
HBO Blogosphere -- 8.29.16
The daily roundup of the HucksOnline blogosphere includes: Slight Detour's photos from a solo drive to Naples. Dogwalk Musings discusses "The politics of fixed income." Cindy spotlights WW2 veteran who published a novel. And Grip on Sports notes that M's losing streak has brought fans back to reality
Edit: Celeb scientists are smart, too 5
Weighing in on a flap involving conservative columnist Neal Larsen of the Idaho Falls Post Register, a Moscow-Pullman Daily News editorial says that scientist celebrities like Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson are smart, too. Recently, Tyson stoked social media fires in Idaho when he responded point-by-point to a column by Larsen.
Fair thefts: Giant lizard, golf cart
Kootenai County sheriff's deputies were kept busy with 66 calls for service during the North Idaho Fair. A carnival worker, for example, reported the theft of an 8-foot stuffed lizard. A golf cart was also reported stolen (and later located). Also, three carnival workers were arrested on drug charges. KCSO provides a recap below.
49ers QB sits during national anthem 52
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has willingly immersed himself into controversy by refusing to stand for the playing of the national anthem in protest of what he deems are wrongdoings against African Americans and minorities in the United States, according to NFL Media. Do you agree/disagree with Kaepernick's stand.
Headlines -- 8.29.16
Headlines today begins with a photo set of North Idaho Fair photos by Duane Rasmussen. Also: NIC nursing program making grade/Press, Fires destroy vehicles near H95, I-90/Press, 'Bullwinkle' elk killer trial set Oct 14/Outdoors, CdA man charged with injury to child/KXLY 4, NIdaho hiking, paddling trips continue/Outdoors ...
CPD investigating NIC rape report
Coeur d’Alene police are investigating a report of a sexual assault on the North Idaho College campus. Officials didn’t say if the alleged victim is a student at the community college, nor did they release any details on a suspect or suspects. KXLY is reporting that the alleged rape involved 3 student athletes & a female freshman.
'Young Frankenstein' actor Wilder, 83, RIP 9
Gene Wilder, the frizzy-haired star of such comedy classics as "Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing Saddles," has died. He was 83.
Idaho senator: Expand Medicaid now 9
Sen. Maryanne Jordan, D-Boise, said her recommendation to the Legislature’s interim committee on Idaho’s health coverage gap is to endorse a straight Medicaid expansion. That, she said, would cover everyone in Idaho’s gap, and “take advantage of full federal matching rates.”
North Idaho attracts Redoubt faction 72
In a lengthy Washington Post article, reporter Kevin Sullivan explains how North Idaho and the Inland Northwest has become home for the Ameican Redoubt movement, a migrating group of survivalists who are moving here to protect themselves if/when the nation comes apart. Some Redoubters have chosen Coeur d'Alene to make their stand.
AM Scanner Traffic -- 8.29.16
Scanner Traffic for Monday AM (15 items & counting) includes caller who got told off when he tried to stop man from beating his dog in the Post Falls Walmart parking lot.
Quotable Quote
“I’m not paranoid, I’m really not. But we’re prepared. Anybody who knows us knows that Don and Jonna are prepared if and when it hits the fan” -- Don Bradway.
Poll: We ♥ animals, food at the fair 2
In the weekend poll, three things stand out as favorite attractions at the North Idaho Fair for Hucks Nation: Animals, food and exhibits. Today's Poll: What do you think the American Redoubt movement is?
Carlson: Redoubt movement alarming 6
What is the American Redoubt movement? wonders Chris Carlson of the Carlson Chronicle. The national media wants to cast it as a reincarnation of the Richard Butler/Neo-nazis plague that damaged Idaho's image. There's no evidence of racism in the movement, Carlson says. But it could be a tamer version of the old posse commitatis movement.
Raul embraces agitator role
Congressman Raul Labrador has embraced his role as an agitator in the House of Representatives. Betsy Russell/SR reports: "A fractious tea party favorite and co-founder of the insurgent House Freedom Caucus, Labrador doesn’t care much for the traditions or norms of Congress." Today, Betsy provides a lengthy report re: Labrador's unorthodox style.
Labrador group considers split
Some members of the hard-line Freedom Caucus are considering leaving the Republican Study Committee in the next Congress, potentially creating a split between two influential groups of House conservatives. Idaho Congressman Raul Labrador is an influential member of the Freedom Caucus.
Woman to face attempted murder count 4
A 36-year-old Coeur d'Alene woman is in jail facing several felony charges including attempted 2nd degree murder after an incident Sunday night. Nicole M. King, 36, of Coeur d'Alene, was arrested in Coeur d'Alene after allegedly firing a shot at a woman fleeing in a car in Post Falls.
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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