As could be expected, Republicans haven’t been all that receptive to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s assertion that those who oppose the Democratic health care legislation are like those who supported slavery. Reid made the controversial comparison on the Senate floor yesterday. “Instead of joining us on the right side [...]
Spokane County sheriffs deputies enter the Tacoma Dome during the memorial service for four Lakewood, Wash. police officers that were killed last week Tuesday. (AP Photo/Cliff DesPeaux, The Seattle Times)
[...]Item: Sandpoint considers hands-free rule: Proposal would ban text messaging altogether while driving/Keith Kinnaird, Bonner County Bee
More Info: “Every time I drive downtown or I’m walking downtown I see people using cell phones who are driving who aren’t paying attention to what they’re doing. Given the renewed safety [...]
Pecky Cox/As The Lake Churns loves winter because it provides frozen scenics from Priest Lake and the surrounding area. She calls this one: "I was here."
Aryan Nations fliers litter Sandpoint/Keith Kinnaird, Bonner County BeeSandpoint considers hands-free rule for cell phones/Keith Kinnaird, Bonner County BeeSagle's Solar Roadways rolling' [...]
"Sarah Palin’s book signing is in full swing," reports Rob Rogers and Tom Lutey of the Billings Gazette on Palin's stop in their eastern Montana town today. "The author and former candidate, wearing a dark suit and a red, white and blue stone-encrusted American flag pin on the" [...]
An unknown amount of swine were slaughtered in order to produce the footballs used during the Oregon Ducks versus Oregon State Beavers football game Thursday night. And while the Ducks emerged victorious, an unknown perpetrator in Albany came out as the biggest swine of them all. An unknown goon and/or [...]
In this Thursday, Nov. 20, 1981, picture, Zsa Zsa Gabor goes through her lines with Anthony Herrera in New York as they prepared to shoot a segment for the soap opera "As the World Turns." The network announced the show's cancellation today - the day "As the World Turns" broadcast [...]
Boise fire officials were able to help a boy whose tongue was stuck to a metal fence pole outside the Fairmont pool near the corner of Milwaukee and Northview streets Tuesday morning. Firefighters didn't ask him his age but said he was probably 10. The boy is OK, Boise Fire' [...]
After spending $310,000 in private donations to remodel and furnish the governor’s mansion, a five-member panel is now investigating whether to unload the vacant hilltop home. The Governor’s Housing Committee decided late Monday to spend two months gathering information about the advantages of keeping the place — or putting it [...]
The Obama administration has settled a long-standing lawsuit over the federal government’s abysmal record of serving as trustee for its American Indians.
The settlement of the Cobell v. Salazar case that used to be the Cobell v. Kempthrone case and the Cobell v. Babbitt case promises to pay $1.4 billion to [...]
Officers move into position to stand watch at the caskets of four slain Lakewood police officers before a memorial service Tuesday at the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Wash. The memorial is being held a week after the officers were gunned down in a coffee shop before the start of their [...]
Obama’s National Institute of Health announced on Wednesday that it was offering up 13 new cell lines for research, after harvesting the cells from preborn children killed for that purpose – presumably by the federal government itself. The embryonic stem cells are the first fruits of the [...]
LastDemoInIdaho: am I the only person wondering about the need and expense of police driving and flying there from all over the country?. I know their excuse is that this is “to honor” the fallen. Who is paying for all this travel? Are these police and deputies from [...]
MamaJD points out for Huckleberries Online that today marks the 25th anniversary of the fiery standoff on Whidbey Island between federal agents and Robert Jay Matthews, founder of white supremist group The Order. Matthews, from the Inland Northwest, died in the shootout. His death signaled the end [...]
It's my call that Bill Sali will throw his hat in the ring in due season and easily crush both of these fine gentlemen. Bill and I are long-time friends...AND we have not...I repeat HAVE NOT talked about a 2010 candidacy run for the Sali Machine. I just [...]
I've been spending some time thinking about my time as a columnist and the stances I have taken in this space. I've probably been a harsher critic of some things than I maybe needed to be and have written some opinions that were maybe unpopular. My last column [...]
A procession of police vehicles passes the Lakewood, Wash. police headquarters heading to the Tacoma Dome for a memorial service oday for four Lakewood police officers who were killed in late November while they worked on computers in a coffee shop. Hundreds of emergency vehicles and thousands of law enforcement [...]
Item: Flu pandemic could be mild: H1N1 toll likely to be lower, but vaccinations are still encouraged/Washington Post
More Info: With the second wave of H1N1 infections having crested in the United States, leading epidemiologists are predicting that the pandemic could end up ranking as the mildest since modern medicine [...]
The Air Force's top aerial act, the Thunderbirds, will perform at Fairchild Air Force Base next July.
Fairchild announced today the Thunderbirds put the Skyfest 2010 event on their schedule, which was released yesterday at a convention in Las Vegas.
Maj. Angela Oconnell, a base spokeswoman, said this may be the earliest [...]
The story of what happened when a sheep guard dog attacked a mountain bike rider in Colorado.
A woman who was attacked by sheep guard dogs took her case to court and won.
Ranching, recreation collide in the great outdoors
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI – Los Angeles Times [...] 
Jorgenson attempting to deputize himself as the Purity police in this race is kind of curious. I keep tabs on legislator's voting record and overall, Jorgenson's got a 71% Conservative Voting record, not horrendous, and certainly not as bad as North Idaho Senators Shawn Keough (R-1) or Joyce [...]
CindyH: Here's a conversation stopper or starter for you. When my 15-year-old son slumped home from school yesterday, I asked him how his day had been. He said, “It sucked. I had to stare at a picture of a penis for like, an hour in health class. That's' [...]
MORE AND MORE ANTI STREET CAR, HOMELESS FIRE SAFETY, SMOKE FREE PLEA, TRASH TALK
Note–The GUARDIAN deleted one particularly rude rant aimed at the Mayor which was of a personal nature.
11/29/09
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Streetcar: In regards to the streetcar to nowhere [...]
Representatives of about 190 nations, including 105 presidents and prime ministers, began to gather in the Danish capital yesterday to set a framework for a treaty to curb emissions blamed for global warming. Talks have been slowed by differences between industrialized nations and developing countries over emissions-reduction targets and how [...]
Sarah Palin's visit to North Idaho is only two days off -- and all is well in the land of the Huckleberries. Dunno how many of you are going to line up for Palin's signature at Fred Meyer late Wednesday night. But I expect reports back from those who do. [...]
Former Romanian gymnastics star Nadia Comaneci walks behind young athletes during the launch of a doll named after her in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday. A part of the money from the sales of the toy will be donated to Romanian gymnastics clubs to support talented children.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Question: Who is your [...]
Obama's new Gallup Poll job approval number is 47%. Last month it was 53%. Regular Ticket readers will recall how in this space in late November we pointed out that Obama's closely watched job approval slide was coinciding with Palin's little-noticed rise in favorability. And it appeared they might [...]
Cold case: Wolves cause of death remains a mystery. By Jody Zarkos. Idaho Mountain Express.
The investigation into the death of six juvenile wolves found near Fairfield, Idaho has been closed, but the cause of their death was never determined. [...] 
Meet the most non-discriminatory person in North Idaho: Hayden Stern. A first-year general studies student from Santa Cruz, Calif., Stern is the vice president of the Gay Straight Alliance. Stern's story can be summed up in one sentence - and notice we don't use a sex-oriented pronoun such' [...]
Remember that scene in the movie, "A Christmas Story" where the little boy gets his tongue frozen to a metal pole? Well it happened Monday in Spokane Valley. It was a reminder to every one of what not to do. A 13-year-old girl stuck her tongue on a metal pole [...]
Canada sent us one of those polar air masses, with a nice bit of powdery snow on the front end to make it slightly more pleasant. The usual first snow mêlée on the highways, more than 40 crashes.
Our [...]
It's suitably literary, entertaining, and nigh on extravagant, given that you pay by the inch for these things. It covered most of two columns in today's Idaho Statesman; the online version has some shortcomings, starting with a too-wide column and no paragraph breaks, ugh. (Hello, Legacy.com, market [...]
Former Playboy Playmate and HIV awareness activist Rebekka Armstrong speaks in the Student Union Building Ballroom recently. Armstrong was diagnosed as HIV positive in 1989. Argonaut story here. (Jake Barber/Argonaut)
Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SRNumbing cold won't let go/Mike Prager, SRGirl's tongue freezes to pole in Spokane Valley [...]
Lizard People: Is there a political way forward for the Alternative Right at all? I don't think so, but there are elections coming up, you know. Some people seem to think Ron Paul might run again in 2012. It's possible. We have other options, actually, and it is' [...]
Attendees gather to attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of Santa's Elves, in New York, Monday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)
Top Cutlines
1. A confused young blonde women is turned away by promoters after asking for a stout beer and wanting to sing 'Jailhouse [...]
Listening to music has always been one of my favorite past times. Music is probably what keeps me going in life besides the obvious brain and heart. I’ve always had an interesting relationship with music and sometimes it has even come between a partner and me because we [...]
To the editor:
I don't understand why the White House is so upset about the' [...]
Item: Mitchell won't hear election challenge: Disqualification order filed on Friday by judge/Tom Hasslinger, Coeur d'Alene Press
More Info: Mitchell filed the disqualification order on Friday, and on Monday Judge Charles Hosack was assigned the case. ... "I don't know anything about the case, I don't know anything that would" [...]
Michael Ramirez/Investor's Business Daily
[...]I read an article recently on a way to better control the auto focus on a camera. Its called back-button auto focusing. It works on most digital SLR camera like our Canon Digital Rebel XTi. The concept is that the camera focuses while a button is pressed on the [...]
