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News >  Idaho

Racists Target Idaho Voters

In a Moscow-Pullman Daily News story, Terri Harber reports that supremacists legally purchased Idaho voter registration lists to use in a recent robo-call campaign. The racists were denouncing plans to allow Syrian refugees at a Magic Valley center. Question: What do you think the racists were trying to accomplish with their robo-call campaign?
News >  Idaho

Return Of The Carousel Close

A new generation is close to experiencing the slow, circular joys of riding on the same carousel youths of the Lake City did decades ago. In the four years since it was given back, all 20 of the original horses from the 1922 Spillman carousel...
News >  Idaho

Letter: Restart The Draft

Tongue firmly cheek, letter writer David Hodin of Loon Lake, Wash., urges Congress to re-start the military draft, if congressmen are so keen on going to war with Iran. And he suggests that there be no exemptions and that the children of congressmen be drafted first. Question: Is there any scenario in which you'd be OK with reinstituting the draft?
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Wild Card — 8.11.15

This is the time of the summer when I enjoy plucking tomatoes off the vine -- cherry tomatoes or the Early Girls -- and popping them into my mouth. You can't buy that sweet taste at a grocery store. Toss in an evening game of...
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Parting Shot — 8.11.15

A fingerling trout removed from a trap in the contaminated waters of the Animas River in Durango, Colo., leaps from the hands of Colorado Parks and Wildlife's Aquatic Biologist Jim White today. The fingerling was shown to Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper during a tour of the area.
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Quotable Quote

“There are very few things in state government that are more important than defending our state Constitution” Senate Pro Tem Brent Hill re: story that Idaho has been ordered to pay nearly $900,000 in legal fees after losing court fights to defend unconstitutional law.
News >  Idaho

Goodbye, Dog Days

I always figured that the "dog days of summer" was, basically, the month of August, the weeks when the summer was winding down. Now, as a result of a post by Paul Turner/The Slice, I realize the dog days run from about July 3 until -- today. Aug. 11 is suppose to be the end of the mos tsultry period of summer. How should we acknowledge this fact?
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Cutline Contest — 8.11.15

The Cutline Contest for Tuesday features a BB-8 droid from the upcoming film, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens." Monday Winner -- Uncle Bob.
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PM Scanner Traffic — 8.11.15

Scanner Traffic for Tuesday PM (23 items & counting + AM Scanner Traffic link with 11 more items) includes suspicious grass fire in Dalton Gardens area ...
News >  Idaho

BNSF Fined For Treatment Of Ties

The Washington State Department of Ecology has fined BNSF Railway $86,000 for placing creosote-treated railroad ties and other materials from maintenance projects in Whatcom and Skagit county water bodies. The department's water quality program manager, Heather Bartlett, said Tuesday that BNSF has "repeatedly disregarded water...
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HucksOnline Blogos — 8.11.15

The daily roundup of Huckleberries Online blogosphere links includes: Endless war party/Fort Boise, The end of the dog days/The Slice, Hey, Ma, you won't believe this/Simple Mind, Lightning strikes ignite new Idaho fires/Outdoors, Friday's Openers: Spies, rappers & bit of jest/7 Blog, Coeur d'Con to feature director Cook/Coeur d'Alene Today+more...
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Poll: Idaho GOP Is Conservative

It should come as no surprise that the majority of Idahoans, according to a poll from Idaho Politics Weekly, consider the Republican Party to be -- and should be -- conservative.
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Oath Keepers Invade Ferguson

Heavily armed civilians with a group known as the Oath Keepers arrive in Ferguson, Mo., early Tuesday. The far-right anti-government activists, largely consists of past and present members of the military, first responders and police officers. St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said the...
News >  Idaho

KCSO IDs Fatal Crash Victim

The Kootenai County Sheriff's Office has identified the woman killed in the Rathdrum Prairie accident Monday afternoon, as 33YO Nancy B. Colon, of Shoreline, Wash. She was killed when a vehicle driven by her husband crashed into a motorhome at Pleasant View Road and Prairie Avenue. More below.
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28,000 See Sanders In PDX

Over 28,000 people showed up to hear presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speak in Portland, Oregon, on Sunday, setting the record for the largest crowd to attend one of his campaign events, and in the 2016 presidential race thus far. (Question: Should Hillary fear Bernie Sanders?)
News >  Idaho

Bond: EPA’s Polluted River

Online columnist David Bond writes: "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s massive spill of arsenic-laden contaminants into Colorado’s Animas River (literally, from the Spanish, River of Souls) a week ago has all the makings of a slow-speed softball pitched at this relentless critic of EPA’s hubris, bullying and unscientific (nonsense)."
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Midtown Street Work To End In A Week

A portion of Fourth Street in Coeur d'Alene will remain closed for another week while city employees wrap up construction. Work began last week at the intersection of Fourth Street and Montana Avenue. Coeur d'Alene Street Superintendent Tim Martin told The Press Monday that the...
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AM Scanner Traffic — 8.11.15

Scanner Traffic for Tuesday AM (11 items & counting) includes 16YO boy who has suffered head injury in accident on Hayden Lake ...
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New Idaho Area Code Sought

Idaho will run out of 208-prefix phone numbers in about two years. (Colleague Alison Boggs suggests we have some fun with the pending change: "Matching letters to the numbers on the phone, suggest a new area code for Idaho. We'll start it off... GEM (436)? GOP (467)? BSU (278)? Your turn ...")
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Poll: Health Insurance Is A Right

In Monday's poll, a supermajority of Hucks Nation said that health insurance should be a constitutional right. Today's Poll: How would you describe Gov. Butch Otter's political philosophy?
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AM Headlines — 8.11.15

AM Headlines for Tuesday includes struggle for balance for water levels between Priest River and Priest Lake + Idaho Records/Coeur d'Alene Press, Afghan family finds refuge in Spokane/SR, Man charged with shooting girlfriend/Press, Woman survives Fernan Saddle plunge/Press, Officials ID man killed in diving accident/Press + more ...