For only the second time* in my life, I'm completely stranded. The first was when I was caught in a brutal blizzard that stranded me overnight in Moses Lake when I-90 was closed. But this is worse, because the flooding is supposed to increase madly…
We've been handed a deck of cards that is, for all intents and purposes, stacked against us. We've been short-sheeted in the atmospheric department so far this winter. In short, it's been hard times of late. Also, lately around these parts, there's been a lot…
This cliched comedy “Bride Wars” tosses out stereotypes about female materialism and cattiness with all the giddy gusto of a newly married woman flinging the bouquet at her single girlfriends. It’s amazing that two of the film’s three writers are women: Casey Wilson of “Saturday…
In the news on this TGIF evening, Illinois Gov. Rod Blogajevich dismisses the House impeachment vote today as politically driven here. The number of obese Americans now outweight those who are merely overweight here. A Texas Death Row inmate pulled his good eye out and…
You know it's deep when the ducks start swimming in the potholes. First, there was record snow and now comes the potholes in downtown Spokane/Christopher Anderson, SR.SR's Today In Photos
I am appalled to see pictures of children of all ages participating -- both "willingly" and unwillingly -- in the plunge into the 35-degree lake. It had never occurred to me anyone beside consenting adults would participate in this activity. As far as I can…
A rooftop gas leak at the Clark Fork Jr.-Sr. High School forced a school-wide evacuation Thursday as officials attempted to diagnose and repair the problem, reports Conor Christofferson/Bonner County Bee. Story here. Above, Trish Gannon/River Journal provides a photo of the scene, with this comment:…
5:24 p.m. Malfunctioning stoplights on Highway 41, causing traffic to back up onto interstate.5:02 p.m. A twentysomething man is walking around the Slab Inn area/Post Falls swinging a golf club at the ground and appearing to be "totally out of it."4:58 p.m. A man who…
In this photo released by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, "George," a live 20 pound lobster rests on a plate at City Crab and Seafood in New York today. City Crab and Seafood has spared the lobster, which is expected to be…
Said a Tel Aviv spokesman named Gus,"We regret this unfortunate fuss,but Hamas is to blamethat we bomb, kill and maim --and besides Hitler did it to us."The Bard of Sherman Avenue
At Remember The Roxy, OrangeTV continues to entertain us with photos like the one above of a Coeur d'Alene lifeguard from 1944. Let's see, the lifeguard'd be in her early to mid-80s now. Anyone know her. More Remember The Roxy photos here. (Blogroll roundup below)
Item: Physical shoveling proves to be pain in the back: Therapists see influx of snow-removal strains/Alecia Warren, CDA PressMore Info: Physical therapists see influx of snow removal strains. Everything was fine while Devonne was chucking humps of snow out of her driveway last month. Only…
Blogmeister Ryan has figured out why the comments section and the drop-down box under the 12:03 Huckleberries wasn't working. Ditto, for the original "Huckleberries Hears ..." earlier today. You can now comment on those posts. And see the drop-down boxes. Thanks for your patience as…
In the style of all these types of year-end communications my plan is to talk about the year just passed, and I preface it by borrowing from Dickens—these are the times that try men’s souls. They are times that are trying this woman’s soul as…
In fact, one of the most important parts of the pre-diet ritual is the December 31 “last supper.” This year, it was the ultra-classic Paul Bunyan Bacon Double Cheeseburger, a sublime, messy beast known to tear through twenty napkins, and a superb final indulgence before…
Mike Evans, checking on the home of a friend, walks through fog and water two-feet deep earlier today, near Carnation, Wash. Thousands of people are still out of their homes and hundreds of trucks are stranded along highways because of floods, mudslides and avalanches in…
Item: Seattle Post-Intelligencer up for sale/Seattle TimesMore Info: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which first rolled off the presses in 1863 and has been the state's longest-publishing newspaper, is up for sale, according to the paper's Web site. The newspaper's staff was called into a closed meeting…
... That Ron Nilson of Ground Force Manufacturing declared war on the Education Corridor at the weekly meeting of the Pachyderm Club. A Berry Picker reports: "Speaking very passionately, he encouraged all in attendance, whom he referred to as 'the silent majority,' to stand up…
So much for safety first. The Idaho Transportation Board earmarked $94 million Wednesday - but nothing for a bridge dangerous enough to get written up in Popular Mechanics magazine. The Dover Bridge in Bonner County got short shrift in part because board members believed enough…
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich talks to the media at his home in Chicago on Friday. The Illinois House voted 114-1 earlier this morning to impeach Blagojevich, a first in state history. You write the cutline. Story here. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)
... Community activist Mary Souza hit a speed bump in her attempt to gain Rotary membership for her OpenCDA.com blog buddy Dan Gookin. Seems some Rotarians told leadership -- and I paraphrase -- "over our dead bodies." Stay tuned.
... Did someone at the Coeur d'Alene Press forget to include an editorial page in today's edition? What's up with that?
As it happens, Eastwood was talking about a fellow for whom sensitivity is not a problem: Walt Kowalski, the retired Detroit auto worker he portrays in his latest film, "Gran Torino." Kowalski is the unlikely hero of a tale of redemption and sacrifice … unlikely…
On Wednesday morning at the crack of dawn I went "onlocation" in the cab of a Post Falls city snowplow on the first day of the warming trend. It had been exactly three weeks since the snow started falling and fell in great huge record-breaking…
In a CDA Press story by Maureen Dolan this morning, Superintendent Hazel Bauman said the Coeur d'Alene School District could cut athletics programs by as much as $800,000. How would you go about trimming the sports budgets?*Eliminate travel to southern Idaho, except for state competition.*Eliminate…
