At More Main Street, KerriT provides a photo of the autograph that about 1,200 people stood in line in single-digit temperatures last night to get. Kerri provides more photos of people who braved the frigid weather to get Sarah Palin's autograph here.
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Cotton insulation. Bamboo flooring. Concrete countertops. All of these can simultaneously make your home beautiful and Green, and, for the past 15 years, Spokane area shoppers have been able to find these and more under one roof at EcoDepot. “EcoDepot is the only environmental building supply (store) in [...]
Automotive Technology student Thomas Rusche of Coeur d’Alene (seated) and classmates Nick Rardin of Post Falls and Jordan Justice of Tensed check out a Tesla Roadster electric supercar in the automotive lab at North Idaho College. Owner Warren Fisher of Coeur d’Alene brought the car by for the students to [...]
Item: Sandpoint eyes user fee for City Beach/Keith Kinnaird, Bonner County Bee
More Info: The city’s quest for new sources of revenue could result in a user fee for non-residents at City Beach. Councilwoman Helen Newton said the non-resident user fee was suggested by employees and is in line with [...]
KREM2 provides an up close and personal look at the Spokane Valley 13YO who wanted to know what would happen if she licked a metal pole in the single-digit temperatures that we've had in the Inland Northwest this week. You can read the story here.
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MamaJD phoned HBO moments ago to explain how she ended up helping with the books at Sarah Palin's autographfest at Fred Meyer. She was standing in a small group with Coach Dean Lundblad, who knows members of the Palin family. She and others in the group were welcomed [...]
Sarah Palin autographed books at Fred Meyer in Coeur d'Alene this afternoon. (Kathy Plonka/SR)
OrangeTV: I'm okay with all the coverage. I like celebrity gossip. She's irritating in a somewhat enjoyable way. At least it's always a good time making fun of her and her supporters. She needs a [...]
... "I've been invited to help in Sandpoint tonight too!"
' [...]... from Palin book signing at Fred Meyer: "(Sarah Palin's) wearing black jacket with a patriotic military pin. Todd is wearing beige sweater. I'm now helping out in the book tour and within 10 feet."
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First, it’s not a legitimate means of assessment because the Broncos can’t do anything about it. They’re in the conference they’re in, and have to play those opponents. Assessing the Broncos by looking at the other teams is a bit like judging my job performance, or setting my [...]
An issue of Editor & Publisher is shown atop newspapers in New York earlier today. The journalism trade journal Editor & Publisher is shutting down after 108 years of publication. Editor Greg Mitchell of Editor & Publisher said he was shocked by the decision to immediately close the magazine's print [...]
Eleven months before crucial midterm elections, a national poll indicates that the public is divided over whether the country would be better off with Democrats or Republicans controlling Congress. According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Thursday, 40 percent of people questioned say the U.S. would be better off [...]
Allred may be a relative unknown statewide — especially compared to incumbent Gov. Butch Otter and even GOP primary challengers Rex Rammell and Sharon Ullman, an Ada County commissioner. But he's well-known around the Statehouse and Idaho public policy circles. His group has analyzed some of the most [...]
MamaJD just texted Huckleberries Online to say: "Mission accomplished! I got my book signed!" I responded via e-mail by asking her (for OrangeTV's sake) to describe what Sarah Palin was wearing and whether hubby Todd was by her side. Stay tuned.
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As someone who has lived most of her life in the Spokane area, I consider myself quite familiar with the city and all its amenities. But when an invitation crossed my desk to see Spokane through a visitor’s eyes, I was intrigued. The CVB (Spokane Regional Convention and Visitors [...]
"I've been here since 10 o'clock last night," said Spokane resident Mary Ann Porter, left. She was first in line to get her copy of Sarah Palin's book signed at Fred Meyers in Coeur d'Alene. The book signing began at noon today and will continue until 3 p.m. Then, Palin' [...]
Actress and author Christina Crawford, daughter of actress Joan Crawford and author of the book “Mommie Dearest,” has been appointed to the Benewah County Commission by Gov. Butch Otter. Otter named Crawford, who now operates the Seven Springs Country Inn near Tensed and who has served on [...]
In August, my husband and I celebrated our 58th wedding anniversary in the nursing home. On that occasion, a young employee there asked me what were the secrets of a good, long marriage. I was taken a bit by surprise and only a flip answer occurred to me [...]
Say you had an investment portfolio worth about $252 million. An investment broker offers you a return of 1.7 percent. Would you take it? Hardly. You could do better with a savings account. So why is the state of Idaho satisfied with such meager results? Idaho owns about 157 cottage [...]
MamaJD just sent this photo via phone from inside the garden center at Fred Meyer, where people have been waiting all night to get their Sarah Palin's book autographed.
MamaJD: Everyone is in good friendly spirits. There is a cameraderie going that is hard to describe. I stopped in [...]
Sarah Palin is on a nation-wide book signing tour for her memoir “Going Rogue: An American Life” and is making a stop in Coeur d’Alene and Sandpoint Thursday.Mary Ann Porter from Spokane was the first Palin supporter to get in line at the Fred Meyer along Kathleen Avenue. She arrived at 10:30 Wednesday morning [...]
Schaeffer Cox, a 25-year-old organizer from Fairbanks, Alaska, talks about how a movement sprang up in Fairbanks from a coalition of people disgusted with the government and the economic system while he was speaking Thursday, Dec. 2, at the Greyhound Park in Post Falls. Cox and other speakers appealed to [...]
“It’s so cold that I’m shaking like Sarah Palin taking a geography exam” -- from Trish Gannon's new blog, Raspberries.
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President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize Thursday by talking about war and the limits of non-violence. But he also praised the peacemakers of the past, and said the world can and should still strive for peace. "Let us reach for the world that ought to be," he [...]
Item: 1st woman named to Idaho Transportation Board/Betsy Russell, Eye On Boise
More Info: I doubt if the Otter gives a wit about a lawsuit. It is the election, and this gives him a platform from which to argue in the election battles that he never did anything [...]
Ed Schaefer of Coeur d'Alene showed his support for Sarah Palin in the early morning hours of Thursday. He was in line to get his book signed at Fred Meyers in Coeur d'Alene. (Kathy Plonka/SR)
Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SRSnow expected this weekend/Spokesman-ReviewMore charged in home invasion robbery/Meghann M. [...]SR photographer Kathy Plonka has returned from the front lines (read: the line waiting for Sarah Palin at the garden center of Fred Meyer) with some swell photos, including one of the woman who has been waiting at the front of the line since well before 10 o'clock last night.' [...]
Dressed as a combination Elvis and Santa Claus, Tom Pall waves a sign advertising for a colon hydrotherapy clinic Wednesday in Las Vegas. Pall, who has been waving the sign for four hours a day for the past three months, said he gets 40-50 people a day honking, taking pictures [...]
Item: Palin Mania: Hundreds brave the cold night for Sarah's signature/Colleen O'Brien, KXLY, and: KREM2 video
More Info: Those lined up for the former Alaska Governor brought tents, blankets, sleeping bags, board games and warm drinks to get them through the night. Mac Yocum lives in Coeur d’Alene now,' [...]
Item: Attorneys dismiss pamphlet charges: Literature deemed free speech; Aryan Nations will distribute more/Tom Hasslinger, Coeur d'Alene Press
More Info: The Aryan Nations will continue to distribute its literature across North Idaho and Eastern Washington, one member said Wednesday. And prosecuting attorneys said nothing can be done legally to prevent' [...]
Keith Allred of Eagle is expected to appoint a political treasurer and file the required C-1 form with the Secretary of State which will mark him as a Democratic candidate for governor in 2010, NewWest.Net has learned. Allred, a public policy negotiator and [...]
Michael Ramirez/Investor's Business Daily
[...]Washington State guard Klay Thompson (1) draws a foul on Idaho guard Kashif Watson, right, on his way to a layup during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game tonight at Beasley Coliseum in Pullman. ESPN game story and boxscore here.
Gonzaga's Matt Bouldin, right, and Augustana's Brian DeSimone battle for a loose ball in the first half of their NCAA college basketball game at McCarthey Athletic Center in Spokane, Wash., Wednesday. Gonzaga's bench players led the way to a 79-40 victory. ESPN game story/boxscore here. AND: Jim Meehan's [...]
A video advertisement on CBS's Web site that "mashes" material from the iconic "Frosty the Snowman" Christmastime cartoon with two of the network's comedy series is offensive and should be pulled, media analysts told FoxNews.com. The video ad, "Frosty the Inappropriate Snowman," takes authentic dialogue from CBS'' [...]
C.J. Karper, 12, of Susanville, Calif. waits outside the front door of the Costco store in Reno, Nev. early Tuesday evening. C.J. was first in line for tomorrow's book-signing appearance by former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin. He plans to write a school report about his experiences. Temperatures were expected to [...]
"Although I can't release the name just yet, I am very pleased to report that such an individual is preparing to step forward and offer Idahoans a clear choice in the 2010 election" (reports Betty Richardson). "Of course, we'll have to wait for the primary election to see" [...]
Freshman Ellen Van Wyk, left, and Laura Phillips, right, archaeology collection manager at the Burke Museum, examine the stone spear tip that Van Wyk found as she was digging up rocks from a campus garden in Seattle. Archaeologists believe the tip was fashioned some 4,000 to 7,000 years ago. [...]
Dog owners and animal control workers show off Chihuahuas that have deluged the Bay Area's animal shelters at the Animal Control and Care center in San Francisco earlier today. California has more Chihuahuas than it can handle. It's gotten so bad in Oakland, they have started shipping them out of [...]
For all you Sarah Palin fans, here’s the latest “rules” on her appearance in Sandpoint tomorrow. She’ll be signing books at the Sandpoint Events Center (old Sandpoint High/Junior High school) over on Euclid from 6 to 9 pm. Only books purchased at Vanderford’s (201 Cedar St.) will be [...]
Interstate Concrete and Asphalt of Coeur d'Alene is the apparent low bidder on a project that will eliminate a two-lane, two-mile bottleneck on U.S. 95 north of Hayden, the Idaho Transportation Department announced. The project will widen a two-lane section of U.S. 95, between Wyoming Avenue and the' [...]
KerriT/OnLocation North Idaho provides us w/a look at "the world-famous floating green at the Coeur d'Alene Resort Golf Course" on a very cold December Sunday morning.
Road trip from hell/Bay ViewsOh, you beautiful doll/Dogwalk MusingsEnd of the world or is it?/From A Simple Mind9 Easy' [...]
It appears likely Ted Morris will be Spokane’s No.1 Salvation Army bell-ringer for the third year in a row after somebody dropped a one-ounce gold piece in his kettle on Tuesday. “The guy gets out of his car and asked me if my name was Ted,” said Morris, [...]
Crime Stoppers of the Inland Northwest is offering a cash reward for information leading to the arrest of suspects involved in two recent Malicious Harassment incidents in Coeur d’Alene. The first incident occurred on November 19th 2009 at the Human Rights Education Institute located at 414 Mullan Ave. [...]
Gov. Chris Gregoire talks to reporters in Olympia, Wash., earlier today about her plan for balancing the state's $2.6 billion budget deficit using only the state's existing tax streams. The budget included proposed cuts in spending for health care, welfare, and education programs across the state of Washington. Seattle Times [...]
Dan White infamously had the "Twinkie defense." Dan Noble may use the "Starbucks defense." Noble, the 31-year-old Moscow man accused of an erratic driving episode Monday morning that put two Washington State University students in the hospital, made his first appearance in Whitman County Superior Court Tuesday afternoon. [...]
In the last 13 years, most state department heads have received pay increases outpacing inflation. One exception is the Director of Parks and Recreation, whose salary in 1996 was $76,440. In FY09, it was 31 percent higher at $100,360. That works out to an average increase of 2.4 [...]
Rifts between politicians can run deep, even for those of the same political stripe. So we weren't surprised when Idaho Sen. Mike Jorgenson, R-Hayden, (pictured) took issue with state Rep. Raul Labrador's plans to enter the 1st Congressional District race. But Jorgenson's demand that Labrador, R-Eagle, immediately drop' [...]
Laughing: Glad to hear that the Indian nations have received a $ 3 Billion dollar settlement. I am always confused as to how the Indian nations are a part of Idaho, and the U.S., on Tuesdays (election day) but separate and independent on all the others. The information [...]
MamaJD e-mailed this cell-phone photo of the Sarah Palin bus that just arrived in Coeur d'Alene. Here, it is shown in front of the Coeur d'Alene Resort parking garage. Tom Lutey/Billings Gazette discusses the fan reaction to Palin's Billings visit Tuesday here.
Cartoon: Apologies accepted/Milt Priggee, Seattle P-IErratic [...]Nicholas Renninger, 3, walks in front of his father's casket, Sgt. Mark Renninger, 39, as he is escorted by an unidentified police officer toward a NASCAR racing car on display at a memorial service for four slain Lakewood police officers Tuesday at the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma. The memorial honored [...]
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 [...]
If the government decided that Viagra wasn't necessary (which strictly speaking, it isn't), and decided that it shouldn't be covered, you would not get any argument from me. But the bigger issue here is Boxer's misunderstanding of how analogies work. Boxer clearly doesn't understand that the moral discomfort [...]
The parents complained that they were never asked or even told that their children’s librarian was going to write and use profanity as part of a lesson on controversial books. However, when they heard what happened afterwards, from their 8th grade children, the parents said they were furious and in [...]
It's beginning to seem as though waiting for Sarah Palin is a bit like waiting for Santa Claus. Anyone willing to stand out in the cold all night for 3 seconds of personal time with the Wasilla Wonder definitely has sugar plums dancing in their heads. Or a couple of [...]
Dairy farmer Brad Davis carries Moses, a Jersey Holstein calf mix at the farm of Brad Davis and Megan Johnson, right, in Sterling, Conn. Born the previous week, the calf has a white marking on its forehead in the approximate shape of a cross. (AP Photo/The Norwich Bulletin, Aaron Flaum)
[...]In a Dec. 3 comment below a post discussing Jim Brannon's court challenge of the Nov. 3 Coeur d'Alene municipal elections, "The Bashing Begins," Mary Souza encourages her troops to donate to the losing candidate: "Anyone can donate by going to jimbrannon.com, where they can use the donate button to send money through'" [...]
Palin, though notoriously ill-travelled outside the United States, did journey far to the first of the four colleges she attended, in Hawaii. She and a friend who went with her lasted only one semester. “Hawaii was a little too perfect,” Palin writes. “Perpetual sunshine isn’t necessarily conducive to [...]
Anyone hoping to get Sarah Palin's autograph Thursday when she visits the Fred Meyer store in Coeur d'Alene should plan to wait in line. And dress warm. "We know it's cold, but this is the way we have to do it," said Melinda Merrill, public affairs director for the Portland-based' [...]
US Postal Service Letter Carrier, Patrick Neagle, is covered head-to-toe to fight off the frigid temperatures as he makes his mail deliveries in Spokane Tuesday. Neagle says he keeps his face covered with a cotton mask because it doesn't itch and because his wife won't let him grow a beard. [...]
A United States Army soldier runs with the ball as United States Marines from the 2nd MEB, 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion try to tackle while playing a game of mud football following a rain storm at their base in Khan Neshin, Afghanistan, Wednesday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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1. [...]MamaJD: I would vote for Sali in a primary. Then I would vote Minnick in the general. ;)
Question: Have you ever crossed over in an Idaho primary to vote for a "weaker candidate" with the idea that s/he would be easier to beat by the candidate in your party? Did that [...]
At last count, Tiger Woods has been linked to 11 alleged mistresses – including porn stars Holly Sampson and Veronica Siwik-Daniels, who specializes in kinky sex flicks. But the titan of the PGA tournament is hardly alone when it comes to sex-fueled scandal. Former two-time presidential rising [...]
Item: Bloem gives state of the city: Mayor: City has saved without losing services/Tom Hasslinger, Coeur d'Alene Press
More Info: Completed this year were the Fourth Street renovation project, the Fallen Heroes Plaza and Sept. 11 memorial, the St. Vincent de Paul-partnered Lynn Peterson House for low-income people with chronic' [...]
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[...]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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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' [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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' [...]
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' [...]
