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News >  Idaho

Video: CdA garbage bin collection

Deputy City Administrator Sam Taylor provides latest explanation re: how old Waste Management bins will be collected in city of Coeur d'Alene. This week, you should be setting out all the bins, with trash in them or empty. The Waste Management collection process will take a month. See video above.
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Carlson: Idaho’s glass ceiling

In his Carlson Chronicles, Chris Carlson suggests women who would do well as the first female to serve as Idaho governor, including Sen. Shawn Keough and Sandy Patano: "Now that Hillary Clinton is about to shatter the glass ceiling hanging over the White House's Oval Office, one has to ask when is Idaho going to get with the program."
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Blogosphere — 7.6.16

North Idaho Blog roundup features outdoor photos by Marianne Love/Slight Detour. Also: Email lessons/Randy Stapilus, Weekly planner (update)/On Tap, Make America grate again/Fort Boise, Snake River sockeye get cooler reception/Outdoors, From here to there, and everywhere in between/Grip, Spokane authors and self publishers/Cindy's All Write...
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Hayden man dies in Montana crash

A 48-year-old man from Hayden, Idaho was killed in a rollover crash in southwestern Montana. The Montana Highway Patrol says the man was a passenger in a car that went off Dry Creek Road north of Belgrade at about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. The man's name was not immediately released.
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Why don’t men flush urinals?

Dan Mitchinson, a former Spokane broadcaster who now co-hosts a morning show on Sacramento's KFBK, asks the $64,000 question: "Why don't guys flush urinals?" Dan goes on to say that it's relatively easy to flush the urinals "but most men seem unable, or unwilling, to do this. So my question is why?"
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For whom the booze tolls

At Boise Weekly, Zach Hagadone & Co sample some of Ernest Hemingway's favorite daiquiris: "Ernest Hemingway didn't invent the daiquiri—that honor goes to an American mining engineer working in Cuba at the end of the 19th century—but he did improve on it." (Describe your favorite daiquiri.)
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Vet gets restaurant boot, Facebooks

"A Facebook post about a veteran being kicked out of a Priest Lake restaurant because of his service dog has sparked outrage all over the internet," reports Taylor Viydo/KREM 2. "The post, written by Scott Yochum, said on the Fourth of July the bartender at Nordman kicked him out because of his service dog, Lucky."
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Griz snatching goat caught on film

Sumio Harada, a West Glacier, Mont., filmmaker caught dramatic footage of a grizzly bear hunting and killing a kid mountain goat at a mineral lick on the east side of Glacier National Park. You can see the photos and report by Chris Peterson of the Hagadone News Network below.
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Dubya celebrates 70th w/bike ride

President George W. Bush is celebrating his 70th birthday with wounded warriors and at least two viral social media posts are trending across the World Wide Web today, according to CBSDFW. (Question: How old were you when you last rode a bike?)
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AM Scanner Traffic — 7.6.16

Scanner Traffic for Wednesday AM (12 items & counting) includes 24YO full-term female who needs help getting to the hospital to give birth ...
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Poll: Agree w/FBI email call, slightly

In the poll Tuesday, Hucks Nation, by a 4-vote margin, agreed with the FBI decision not to file criminal charges against Democrat Hillary Clinton re: her use of private email servers while she was secretary of state. Today's Poll: Do you think we're winning the war on terrorism?
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‘CHiPs’ Estrada sworn in as Idaho reserve cop

The man famous for his many years as a motorcycle cop on the hit '80s TV series "CHiPs" is now a reserve police officer in St. Anthony, Idaho. Mayor Neils Thueson swore Erik Estrada into office on Saturday at City Hall in this town of 3,500 people. Estrada plans to work with the police department in protecting children from internet predators.
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Poop & Run

Facebook Friend Eric Barro tells of his close encounter with a older scofflaw who let one of his two dogs poop on the McEuen Park lawn without picking it up. Eric gave the eye to the guy who simply mouthed an empty promise that he planned to retrieve a doggy bag from the McEuen Dog Park. But never did.
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AM Headlines — 7.6.17

AM Headlines feature a retired teacher who has dealt with Lyme Disease since 2005, when she was bitten by a tick on a Lake Coeur d'Alene beach. Also: Grieving fam locked inside CdA cemetery/KREM, Senate Judiciary to hear Nye nomination/EOBoise, Grizzly grabs a Glacier goat/Hagadone News Network + more ...
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Labrador opposes NRA-backed gun bill

Already dealing with threats of another Democratic floor protest, Speaker Paul RyanPaul is now facing defections from the right on a GOP gun bill that conservatives complain is unconstitutional, including Idaho Congressman Raul Labrador.
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Wounded robbery suspect caught

An armed robbery suspect who was shot by a bystander last week at the STCU Spokane Valley branch was arrested Tuesday night at a nearby hotel, the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday. Jeremy D. John, 44, is being treated at a local hospital for injuries to his right arm and hip.
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Johnson: ‘Careless not criminal’

Marc Johnson/Johnson Post re: FBI decision on Hillary Clinton's emails: "Good Lord it is tough work explaining let alone supporting Hillary Clinton. She may be the living proof of the old political axiom that the worst wounds are self-inflicted. She is the poster child – at least the Democratic poster child -- for secretive, damaging dissembling."
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4th of July celebration best reflects real USA

In a Slight Detour post, Marianne Love wishes that "the images that we see of our nation's annual birthday party would take up more time and space in the media, as opposed the massive amounts of reports dealing with terror, nasty politics, crime and generally negative behavior." She offers superb thoughts re: ordinary people & the 4th of July.
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With no time to lose, Little makes leap

In a recent editorial, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune comments that Lt Gov Brad Little is wise to run for governor as though he's an underdog. Trillhaase doesn't think Little will be running from behind. The lieutenant governor has experience and a gubernatorial air that should make him the favorite in 2018.
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Starbucks eyes Zip’s for drive-thru

A drive-through Starbucks could soon become part of the downtown Coeur d'Alene landscape, if the city determines it is allowable. The intersection of Sherman Avenue and Seventh Street is the proposed location of the new Starbucks, according to documents from the city's planning commission.
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Trump praises Hussein’s swift justice

Donald Trump on Tuesday once again expressed his preference for keeping dictators in power in the Middle East. While acknowledging that Saddam Hussein "was a bad guy," Trump praised the former Iraqi dictator's efficient killing of "terrorists" -- despite the fact that Iraq was listed as a state sponsor of terrorism during Hussein's time in power.
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Man jailed in death of ex-mayor’s grandson

A man has been arrested in the death of the grandson of a former Post Falls mayor who died last August after alledgedly being forced at gunpoint to eat a fatal dose of methamphetamine. Authorities have arrested a felon they believe responsible for the death of 22YO Evan Mychal Larking, whose grandfather Clay Larking served 13 years as mayor.
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Parting Shot — 7.5.16

Let's end today with cuteness times 2, provided by Marianne Love/Slight Detour. Marianne snapped a photo of these twins riding in the 4th of July Parade in Sandpoint Monday. Also, Marianne has several other photos of the 4th of July celebration in her neck of the North Idaho woods, plus a think piece on the annual Independence Day celebration.