HBO’s AM Headlines — 2/7/08

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Judd Reed of the Idaho Transportation Department talked about the salt brine machine in Coeur d’Alene on Tuesday. Story by Meghann M. Cuniff/SR here .

* Idaho Records /Sherry Adkins, Spokesman-Review

* Duncan lawyers seek sentence delay: Defense team trying to find ‘social history expert’ for hearing /Rebecca Boone, AP — I know that even murderous scum, like Joseph Edward Duncan III deserve to be represented. But I wonder how his defense attorneys live with themselves by trying to delay an overdue sentencing — now that Duncan’s admitted guilt?

* Citylink ridership growing: Success of bus route makes interstate link a possibility /Amy Cannata, Prairie Voice/SR — Hat Tip to the Coeur d’Alene Indian Tribe, for Councilwoman Dixie Reid and other far-sighted individuals who made Citylink happen.

* Post Falls approves impact fee hikes /Brian Walker, Coeur d’Alene Press — Government defies that old axiom: What goes up, must come down. In the case of user fees, it keeps going up and up.

* Fuel tax pacts clear panel: Agreements with four tribes go to Senate /Betsy Russell, Spokesman-Review — Only a myopic Indian basher, like Rep. Dick Harwood, R-St. Maries, would be against a common-sense bill like this one.

* Caucus attendance thrills Democrats /Conor Christofferson, Bonner County Daily Bee — Bonner County is Obama country? Don’t let TUBOB hear you say that.

* It’s rural Idaho, folks, we’re going to have winter weather /Herb Huseland, Prairie Voice — Herb, there’s winter and then there’s WINTER. This is WINTER. Even oldtimers are tired of this one.