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News >  Idaho

Restaurant owner apologizes, reconciles w/disabled vet

Ben Votava, owner of the Nordman restaurant in the Priest Lake area, and Scott Yockum have reconciled re: a disagreement over Yockum's service dog, Daisy. Votava had refused to serve the disabled veteran as a result of the dog. Votava bought Yockum and beer and apologized. Yockum accepted the apology.
News >  Idaho

Task force statement on shootings

The Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations has issued a statement re: the shootings in Dallas, Texas, Baton Rouge, La., and St. Anthony, Minn. The task force, which originated as a response to the Aryan Nations, is calling for this country to turn away from violence and return to civil discourse.
News >  Idaho

AM Headlines — 7.8.16

AM Headlines: Survivor returns to scene of accident/Press, Idaho wants comment on grizzly rules/EOB, Moscow murderer wants to change plea/KREM, New Idaho council wants Cuba bans lifted/EOB, County sheriff reports road rage incidents/Press, Idaho inmates' suit against CCA to go forward/EOB + more ...
News >  Idaho

A change in comment activity

We have made a slight change in the way comments go online at SR.com. Now, any comment with a link automatically goes to "pending" in Disqus for moderation. In other words, comments with links are in limbo until a moderator, like Yours Truly, goes to Disqus and individually approves them.
News >  Idaho

Poll: Don’t sell Blackwell Island land

In one of the most lopsided votes in awhile, Hucks Nation opposes the proposal by the city of Coeur d'Alene to sell almost two acres of property on the Spokane River at Blackwell Island. 181 of 216 respondents (83.8%) oppose the proposed sale. Today's Poll: Is this divided country headed for a violent nationwide upheaval?
News >  Idaho

Obama: Shootings ‘Vicious,’ ‘Despicable’

President Obama on Friday deplored the shooting deaths of five police officers in Dallas, saying there was “no possible justification” for such a “vicious, calculated and despicable attack on law enforcement.” “We are horrified over these events,” he said, “and we stand united with the people and the Police Department in Dallas.”
News >  Idaho

Don’t sell Blackwell Island parcel

HBOnewbie expresses the sentiments of an overwhelming number of readers of Huckleberries Online by commenting on a proposed sale of 2 acres of city-owned Blackwell Island property: "I do not want the city to ever part with this land, to do so, as public access remains imperative and future potential so valuable."
News >  Idaho

Indignity folos driver’s license wait

A funny thing happened to Councilman Dan English at the driver's license office. The wait, of course, wasn't funny. When it finally was his turn to renew his license, he discovered that he couldn't pay extra to get a license for 8 years. Why? He's now on the downhill side of 60. He could only re-up for 4 years. Who. Made. That. Law?
News >  Idaho

Snipers kill 5 officers, wound 7

Gunmen shot and killed five police officers and wounded seven others during a protest over fatal police shootings of black men in other states, authorities said. It appeared to be the deadliest day for U.S. law enforcement since the 2001 terrorist attacks.
News >  Idaho

For dredge miners, Bundy era is over

In his editorial today, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune comments on the defiant pose struck by Ron Miller, president of Rocky Mountain Mining Rights. Miller is ready to take on the feds again re: suction dredge mining. Trillhaase reminds Miller that there may be consequences to doing that, now that the Bundy era is over.
News >  Idaho

Washington bathroom initiative dead

Voters will not get a chance this fall to decide whether to keep or cancel a state rule allowing transgender people to use bathrooms and other public facilities based on gender identity, not biology. Sponsors of Initiative 1515 notified state elections officials late Thursday they will not turn in their petitions before Friday’s deadline.
News >  Idaho

Parting Shot — 7.7.16

"Little Bear" the cat, foreground, sits in the shade as Sequoia the black bear walks past at the Folsom City Zoo Sanctuary on Thursday in Folsom, Calif. The pair have formed a relationship were zoo keepers have seen them share meals and have seen them sleeping in the shade near each other.
News >  Idaho

Wild Card/Thursday — 7.7.16

Today is garbage collection day in the Borah Triangle -- or not. If we're going according to the old Waste Management schedule, we won't have garbage service until Friday, due to the 4th of July holiday. I didn't put my trash bins out, none of the four of them, anticipating the skipped day. Some of my neighbors did.
News >  Idaho

PM Scanner Traffic — 7.7.16

Scanner Traffic for Thursday PM (22 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic with 14 more items) includes non-injury crash between train and transport vehicle near Prairie Falls Golf Course/Post Falls ...
News >  Idaho

Cutline Contest — Time2Vote

The Cutline Contest today features a Pennsylvania woman's booking photo after she was arrested at a convenience store for pouring gasoline on another woman who criticized her for smoking near fuel pumps. Wednesday Winner: DFO.
News >  Idaho

Tubbs Hill fall injures boy

At about 12:30 p.m. today, a boy enjoying Tubbs Hill slipped on the rocks above the water and fell to the rocks below. Fire crews provided medical aid and transported the patient via fireboat to the ambulance waiting at Third Street dock. Then, he was taken to Kootenai Health, and a level 1 trauma alert was called to the hospital.
News >  Idaho

Kootenai Neurosurgery welcomes new surgeon

Dr. Katie Haynh overcame the hardship of being a Vietnamese refugee who was 6 when her family fled Vietnam for a new life in the United States. Dr. Haynh's (pronounced "win") father was a Vietnamese officer who found the Viet Cong. Now, Kootenai Health welcomes Dr. Haynh as the community's newest neurosurgeon ...
News >  Idaho

Cucumbers

I've been checking the progress of my zucchini and cucumbers. Which brought to mind a rhyme that my old friend Tom Wobker, The Bard of Sherman Avenue, penned for publication on July 20, 2014.
News >  Idaho

Quotable Quote

I'm willing to accept the argument that spiders are beneficial and deserve to live. But frankly, if you're going to launch yourself off the ceiling on a string, and dangle right in front of my face, or in my hair, then I think you deserve...
News >  Idaho

CdA’s Music Man begins free concert year 25

In an op-ed in the Coeur d'Alene Press, former Coeur d'Alene Parks director Doug Eastwood acknowledges the tremendous contribution Chris Guggemos has made to the Coeur d'Alene area music scene for the past 25 years. Guggemos and Handshake Productions have produced free summer concerts for 25 years. He's now battling health issues.
News >  Idaho

Show tunes at Riverstone tonight

If you're going to make one free concert in Coeur d'Alene this summer, you should do so tonight. Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre performers will be singing show tunes for the crowd at Riverstone Pond. The Coeur d'Alene Arts & Culture Alliance has been sponsoring the...
News >  Idaho

Blogosphere — 7.7.16

North Idaho blog roundup: Bayview Daze crowds/Bay Views, Remembering Rambo/Slight Detour, There ought to be clowns/Fort Boise, The new arena for local beer/On Tap, Words about birds tonight at Aunties/7 Blog, Greater love hath no man/Carlson Chronicles, Russell Wilson gets married, now beat Pats/Grip ...