Enough May Be Too Much

Before Coeur d’Loonians line up like lemmings behind the anti-drug program, Enough Is Enough, they’d better check the small print. When it kicks off citywide in mid-March, EIE will ask businesses to declare themselves drug free and, get this, prove it by offering drug tests to employees. So, what happens if a worker bee doesn’t want to give up his constitutional rights? If he doesn’t want to pee in a bottle at his hooked-on-EIE boss’s command? Stay tuned.

Gun control in Gem State? Ahaha

I’m shocked - shocked I tell you - at the Idaho congressional delegation’s ranking among congressional recipients of campaign donations from the gun industry. In the past five years, Larry Craig and Mike Crapo ranked fourth and sixth, respectively, in the U.S. Senate for hauling in money, courtesy of Misters Smith & Wesson; Helen Chenoweth was the House’s fourth-best. This, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Butch, Sundance & Miz Helen should be ashamed they’re so low.

Tater Tots: Age of Aquarius rounding far turn

The scariest fact to emerge from the Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce luncheon, featuring the new owners of Schweitzer Mountain Resort? Ten thousand baby boomers turn 50 every day - or one every 8 seconds. The bell is tolling for my g-g-generation … At Boise State, feminists were outraged the student paper ran a nude photograph of Pamela Anderson on the front cover. At Moscow, feminists are outraged they can’t walk around topless. And Venusians say we Martians are hard to understand? … Sightem: A rig belonging to KVNI-AM radio, which is now owned by KXLY, zooming along I-90, proclaiming itself “The Voice of North Idaho” - while bearing Washington plates … Hmmm. Larry Belmont lasted 27 years as Panhandle Health District tail-gunner (a.k.a., executive director), fighting polluters and protecting the Rathdrum aquifer. Now, his successor is gone after a year. Yet, Coeur d’Alene voters didn’t think enough of Larry to elect him as a state representative? F’shame … Not only does Congressman George Nethercutt claim he doesn’t know if he’ll break his term-limits pledge and run for re-election but he says it with a straight face.