New shade of blue saves green

Don’t look now but the local gendarmes will be wearing a darker shade of blue in the not-too-distant future. Seems they’re prepared to surrender their current “French blue” uniform for a solid dark blue color. And it has nothing to do with the French sitting out the fireworks in the Middle East. If it did, CPD (Navy) Blue could simply redub the color of the uniforms “Freedom blue.” Nothing wrong with the current unies, according to the minutes of Coeur d’Alene’s General Services Committee – except they’re hard to get, particularly the pants. (P’haps they have a tendency to run when you’re not watching them closely? Sorry.) An order for French blue takes up to six months to fill. They’re pricey, too – around $50 or $60 more than the dark blue ones that the City Council approved Tuesday night. As a bonus, a dark color should make the wearer look thinner. Watch out, doughnut shops.

“While waiting for his wife’s preliminary hearing at the Kootenai County Courthouse Monday, a 40-something discussed his drug-abuse problems with a femme in the audience. Said he: “I told the judge I was allergic to drugs and alcohol because I kept breaking out in handcuffs.”

“”A perfect world/if all could learn/to signal when/they make a turn” – The Bard of Sherman Avenue (“Utopia”).

“Huckleberries hears that … jack-of-all-trades Mike McLean is leaving the Coeur d’Alene Press for the Spokane Journal of Business. Mike’s been at Brand X for close to two decades. (Involuntary shudder.)