Archives | March 16, 2017
Results
Business
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Americans spent millions on sign-making materials in January
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Housing starts rise, led by single-family homes
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Trump budget would cut Small Business Administration funding
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Trump would end subsidies for rural airline service
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AGORA Awards business finalists announced
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White House picks Boeing executive as Pentagon’s No. 2
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McDonald’s got Twitter bump after hacked account insulted Trump, expert says
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Ivanka Trump meets with Latina business owners
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Google adds tool to flag ‘offensive’ search results
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German Volkswagen exec stays in jail in U.S. emissions cheating case
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Costco’s private-label booze helps warm spirits during dry spell
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Trump calls for privatizing air traffic control operations
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Idaho, contractors offer free training in operating heavy equipment
Gonzaga basketball
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Gonzaga’s three transfers make tourney debut in style with victory
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Gonzaga’s slow start shows on the glass before cleaning up in second half
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John Blanchette: Zags didn’t exactly shine as guardians of the No. 1 seed
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Gonzaga’s Karnowski draws a crowd inside
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Gonzaga’s 3-point shooting less than stellar against South Dakota State
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Matthew Fisher-Davis’ ill-advised foul dooms Vanderbilt
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Mathews brothers double up on NCAA tournament wins
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Fans power Northwestern to first NCAA Tournament win
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Zags get a big lift from freshman Zach Collins in NCAA win
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Gonzaga’s Johnathan Williams dominates South Dakota State’s Mike Daum
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TV Take: Spokane comes together to cheer on the Zags
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Gonzaga-South Dakota State: 3 keys to the Bulldogs’ 66-46 win
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Gonzaga shuts down Jackrabbits, advances to second round of NCAA Tournament
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Running coverage of Gonzaga’s NCAA Tournament win over South Dakota State
ID Government
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Idaho looks to take over former high-tech campus for new state office complex
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Sweeping road-funding plan falls one vote short in Idaho Senate panel
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Idaho Senate debates, rejects Medicaid expansion
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Idaho Senate votes to repeal state’s 6% sales tax on groceries; link to full story
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In surprise action, Idaho Senate votes to repeal state’s 6% tax on groceries
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Amazon to begin collecting Idaho sales taxes in April
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In dramatic turnaround, Senate transforms income tax-cut bill into grocery tax repeal
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Idaho Senate debates, rejects Medicaid expansion
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Senate considering conflicting amendments on health care, tax cuts…
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House Ways & Means votes 6-1 for H-P property deal; Erpelding objects, says city of Boise will suffer
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Big transportation funding bill defeated in Senate panel by 1 vote, smaller bonding bill passes, 5-4
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Otter announces plan to purchase HP campus for state office space, Hill calls it ‘great deal for Idaho’
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Yet another version of big transportation funding bill…
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Idaho House backs expansion of Open Meeting Law in 70-0 vote
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Rep. Hanks objects, forces full reading of Idaho Public TV budget bill; then it passes without debate
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House backs Senate-amended ‘doggone good’ dog-racing bill
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State purchase of H-P buildings in Boise prompts proposal to cut local government budgets
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After explanation, funding bill for Jeff D settlement wins unanimous support in JFAC
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Legislative Limerick No. 2: Oh, the things we’ll overhear…
Idaho
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P.S. Zags win!
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March Madness Wild Card — 3.16.17
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PM Scanner Traffic — 3.16.17
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Cutline Contest — time2vote
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Grocery tax repeal emerges
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Idaho agency loosens agricultural field burning restrictions
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Are you worried about the Zags?
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A new approach to urban tea
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Backyard treasures
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Paper ap-hollow-gizes to Spokane
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Gonzaga 66, S. Dakota St 46
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Lisa May to seek CdA trustee spot
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State to buy HP Boise campus
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Free, heavy-equipment training offered
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Shoveling lawns?
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AM Scanner Traffic — 3.16.17
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AM Headlines — 3.16.17
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Poll: Priest is NIdaho’s best lake
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2 judges rule against travel ban
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Zags face test in ‘Rabbits’ Daum
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7-story high-rise planned downtown
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Sgt Moore’s widow writes congressmen
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Huckleberries: Sometimes it takes a Sandpoint southpaw to get it right
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CdA mulls sale of land near Tubbs Hill
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America first, everyone else last
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Latah County commissioners declare disaster emergency
Music
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Eric Church: At the Arena Friday night, fans can expect to get their money’s worth
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Time was finally right for Steve Curtis Chapman to write a book instead of songs
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St. Patrick’s Day live music
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Caspar Babypants coming to Spokane Valley
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Want to avoid long lines to get into Spokane Arena? Here’s what you need to know
NCAA basketball
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Morris leads Iowa State past Nevada in NCAA Tournament
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Koenig shoots Wisconsin past Virginia Tech 84-74
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Jock Landale records double-double, Saint Mary’s beats VCU 85-77
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Edwards, Purdue hold off Vermont 80-70 in NCAA Tournament
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Lauri Markkanen scores 20 as Arizona hits century mark, rolls past North Dakota
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No.3 Florida State defeats No. 11 FGCU 86-80
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UCLA’s Lonzo Ball takes his father’s hype in stride
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Indiana fires Tom Crean after 9 seasons
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No. 1 Villanova starts slow, finishes Mount St. Mary’s 76-56
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11-seed Xavier upends 6-seed Maryland 76-65 in NCAA tourney
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Middle Tennessee takes down Big Ten’s Minnesota 81-72
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Northwestern edges Vanderbilt, will face Gonzaga in second round
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Devin Robinson gets hot, No. 4 seed Florida beats ETSU 80-65
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West Virginia powers past Bucknell with 86-80 win
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Butler does it, topping Winthrop 76-64 behind Avery Woodson
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Notre Dame hangs on to beat Princeton 60-58
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Perrantes, Shayok carry Virginia to 76-71 win against UNCW
Nation
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Oklahoma GOP senator’s fall from power is stunningly fast
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Travel ban rulings highlight trouble posed by Trump record
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After Florida prosecutor says she won’t seek death penalty, governor reassigns case of slain police officer
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US taxpayers might be on the hook for pipeline protest costs
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Illinois paramedic saves infant from submerged SUV
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9th Circuit judges to Congress: Leave us alone
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White House stands by wiretap claim
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Trump’s border surge set to collide with overloaded courts
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Documents detail Flynn payments from Russian interests
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Senators: No evidence Trump Tower was wiretapped
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Capitol Hill Republicans not on board with Trump budget
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States tell ‘slowpoke’ drivers to get over – or else
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New Jersey OKs bill pressuring Trump to disclose tax returns
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PT boat that saw WWII combat restored, back in Louisiana
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NC Gov. vetoes GOP bill to make judicial elections partisan
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Teenager finds 7.44 carat diamond in Arkansas state park
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GOP Sen. Paul calls colleague McCain ‘a little bit unhinged’
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Agency-by-agency look at Trump’s budget
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USA gymnastics president resigns amid abuse scandal
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Obama-era law could help Democrats block Trump’s budget
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In sect that shuns medicine, case against pastor is novel
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For U.S. attorneys spared in purge, a lame-duck period begins
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Veterans Affairs budget is in line to grow by 6 percent
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Health care bill short of votes, GOP leaders look to Trump
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Second federal judge rules against new Trump travel ban
Outdoors
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Forest Service closes soft, thawing roads near Sandpoint
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Scablands waterfalls primed for hiking into wet landscape
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Mountain bikers urged to avoid rutting trails
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First Spokane River cleanup of season set for Saturday
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Great Barrier Reef obit maybe not so premature
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State No. 30 confirms white-nosed syndrome in bats
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Idaho river outfitters, anglers buoyed by early water outlook
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Spokane is annual stop in Canadian outfitter’s hunting lifestyle
Spokane
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State lawmaker McCabe seeks funding for homeless in Yakima
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Dr. Richard Stacey, the Spokane doctor who shut down the city after Mount St. Helens erupted, dies
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The Guardian apologizes for flawed article about Spokane
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Spokane hearing examiner upholds ‘dangerous dog’ label for pit bull that bit 5-year-old girl on her face
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Trump’s budget proposal would cut WSU research, Spokane’s Central City Line
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Variety of ways to watch, stream and listen to March Madness games
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Flood waters inch closer to homes along Williams Lake, Little Spokane River
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Clark: Spokane’s new snow plowing plan includes holiday cheer, a pour of schnapps and the promise of Condon Coins
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100 years ago in Spokane: Judge allows jury to drink alleged whisky to determine if woman violated prohibition laws
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Racist posters plastered in 3 areas of Spokane
WA Government
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Vapor products, e-cigarettes could be taxed under new bill
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Revenue projections for Washington higher than expected
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Washington Legislature could saw “branch” off WSU-Spokane campus designation
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State revenue inches up but impact on Washington budget debated
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WSU-Spokane would lose “branch” from its campus description under proposal before Washington Senate
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More money coming in for Washington’s budget, economist says
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More on that 911 sales tax, and where your sales taxes go
Washington
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Washington Supreme Court upholds tribal fuel tax exemption
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State Supreme Court sides with Port of Vancouver in oil terminal suit
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School responds to transgender teen bullying allegations
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Puyallup High graduate invited to D.C. to share her health care story
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George man charged in Quincy armed robbery
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Hanford contractors plan to cut up to 300 jobs
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Kennewick council, diversity commission nix ‘inclusive community’
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Pasco rapist met girls on Facebook, now going to federal prison for child porn
World
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Syrian missiles fired at Israeli jets that struck in Syria
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Ireland’s leader pushes Trump on Irish in US illegally
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Israel blacklists Palestinian fund as US envoy visits
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Somali pirates release oil tanker and crew, officials say
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Egyptian statue recently unearthed is not Ramses II
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Thailand tries out a special wing for transgender inmates
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NY court asked to determine if chimp is legally a person
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Tillerson says diplomacy with North Korea has ‘failed,’ Pyongyang warns of war
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Sierra Leone pastor discovers 706-carat diamond in village
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French high school shooting: 4 shot, student arrested
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10 injured in explosion on erupting Mount Etna volcano
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Turkey threatens to end migrant deal with EU amid spat
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Letter bomb explodes at France office of IMF, injuring 1
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UK grants first license to make babies using DNA from three people
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UK authorities seek owner of gold trove stashed inside piano
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How Russian agents hacked 500 million Yahoo users
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British PM, Scottish leader tussle over independence vote