The Coeur d'Alene Indians' six-week-old Internet gambling site isn't making money yet.
That's less of a concern to tribal officials than the possibility that US Lottery will become popular too quickly.
Gaming chief executive officer David Matheson doesn't want to end up with frustrated customers unable to get through.
If you want to do the job right, it's not all that easy giving away $35 million a year.
But that's what the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation plans to do.
As announced in June, the money will go to Idaho public schools. The charity has hired one of the state's top education administrators to help with the task.
That brings the number of foundation employees to exactly five.
"We want the money to go to the school kids, not salaries," executive director Sharron Jarvis said Tuesday.
Swiss dog-handling expert Hans Schlegel works with a police dog named York on Monday. Schlegel, considered one of the best trainers in the world, is in Post Falls to teach Idaho K-9 officers and their dogs to become better working teams. Photo by J. Bart Rayniak/The Spokesman-Review
There were few legal headaches for revelers after July Fourth, no morning-after blues for the cops.
"This was just mellow. Totally mellow," Anne Andreason of North Shore Rentals said Saturday, as tourists stopped by to check out the pedal-boats near City Beach.
Two years have passed. Clay Larkin's anger has not.
The Post Falls City Council member is still upset about a gauntlet of billboards erected in 1995 near the Idaho-Washington state line.
Those billboards grab the eyes of Interstate 90 motorists, luring some of them into the Factory Outlet Mall but also obscuring their first view of pine-covered Idaho mountains.
A Washington woman who swears she never won anything before got an awesome call Wednesday night.
"You're kidding!" exclaimed Ethelyn Carr of Otis Orchards when Rayelle Anderson phoned to say Carr won a house in the North Idaho College Foundation's Really BIG Raffle.
To hear folks at Saturday's job fair tell it, work is about as easy to find in North Idaho as a pine tree.
"There's a lot of professional and technical jobs, a tremendous amount of service and retail jobs," said Ricia Lasso, state Job Service consultant. "We have 30 percent more listings than last year."
Jack Lemley, North Idaho College Class of '56 and builder of the Chunnel, which joins Great Britain and France, will be keynote speaker at NIC's first all-college reunion.
The public is invited to Lemley's talk, which is one part of an ambitious schedule of events on July 26.
Habla Espanol, Senor Rankin?
With the help of an unnamed donor, the League of Women Voters of Kootenai County will publish its Citizens Guide brochure in Spanish.
North Idaho College students face the daunting task of getting 14,828 petition signatures for each of the three college trustees they hope to recall.
That is as much as 18 times the number of votes it took to elect them.
Scraping away their cares at the fourth annual Idaho Drug Free Youth summit Friday are Tiffany Hampton, Genesee, foreground, Sonia Morales of Bruneau and Lona Duce of Kellogg. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review
Sophomore Senator Elizabeth Beechler, left, Associated Students President Renee Scott and sophomore Senator Ben Toews listen to comments Wednesday. Photo by Liz Kishimoto/The Spokesman-Review
1. Learning on the job. Sid Brown, left, gets help from NIC carpentry instructor Dave McRae in the master bath. Photo by Liz Kishimoto/The Spokesman-Review
2. The odds of winning this house are 1 in 4,000.
1. Return of the Nez Perce. A procession of Nez Perce riding appaloosas sets out from the horse camp for Thursday's ceremony to mark the purchase of Chief Joseph Ranch and the return of the Nez Perce to Oregon. Photo by Liz Kishimoto/The Spokesman-Review
2. Surrounded by his grandchildren, Curtis Axtell overlooks Chief Joseph Ranch. His grandmother was among the Nez Perce who fled with Chief Joseph.
When Terry Crenshaw and his friends went looking for land on which to build a Nez Perce interpretive site, some ranchers didn't want to sell.
But any anti-Indian sentiment that lingers in Wallowa County, Ore., was outweighed by public enthusiasm for the project.
Private citizens have raised money to buy property for a powwow site and interpretive center. They see the project as a way of welcoming tribal members back to their ancestral lands.
Amid party decorations and buffet tables, outgoing NIC president Bob Bennett, with his wife, Donna, says a few words to students, faculty and staff. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review
The North Idaho College board of trustees decided behind closed doors not to renew President Robert Bennett's contract, although they say no illegal vote was taken.
State law requires that personnel discussions at state institutions, such as employee evaluations, take place in executive session. Out of public earshot.
1. Robert Bennett
2. Ben Toews, a student government senator, center, and other NIC students discuss the recent firing of their college president with incoming student body president Renee Scott, far right, on Tuesday. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review
