Warm up for your Olympics viewing experience with some awesome video and analysis from NYT Interactive. Snowboard halfpipe, a double full full full on skis, the who thought of let's go down laying on top of each other on this [...]
Warm up for your Olympics viewing experience with some awesome video and analysis from NYT Interactive. Snowboard halfpipe, a double full full full on skis, the who thought of let's go down laying on top of each other on this [...]
Idaho voters will be required to provide photo identification or sign an affidavit that they are who they before they are given a ballot at polling places under a proposal introduced Tuesday by House Majority Leader Mike Moyle, R-Star. The bill, which was printed by the House State Affairs Committee, [...]
That hard-boiled egg and piece of toast that I had for breakfast doesn't seem to be as filling now that I realize this is Denney's Free Grand Slam Breakfast Day. I could take a break for 90 minutes or so to get re-filled. But I don't know if you'd put' [...]
Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin addresses attendees at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville on Saturday. On her hand appears to be handwritten notes. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)
Question: What do you use to stay on track when you're giving a speech or presentation -- teleprompter, cue cards, writing on your' [...]
OLYMPIA -- This year's regular legislative session is half over, and while there's not much to show for it so far, the Senate may be pushing ahead this morning with a vote over suspending the supermajority provisions in Initiative 960.
The Senate Ways and Means Committee sent the bill out Monday [...]
The halftime remembrance ceremony was put together by the NIC American Indian Student Alliance and the coaching staff. The Rose Creek Drummers did an Honor Song before Stensgar spoke of Tim Wolfe and what a remarkable young man he was. Tim Clark, AISA vice president and longtime [...]
After feeding two million grateful Americans who took advantage of the offer, Denny's is doing it again. That's today-- Tuesday, February 9th from 6 a.m. through 2 p.m. at participating restaurants. We already checked in with a Denny's restaurant in Spokane Valley and it was jam-packed! Our reporter [...]
Lawrence Wasden has been consistent on one front — he believes the state should honor its constitutional mandate and manage its endowment for maximum long-range returns.
That philosophy has governed the attorney general's approach to the state's cabin lease controversy. And it leaves him wrestling with state schools superintendent Tom Luna's' [...]
I had a dream last night that I went to some local Republican office and inquired about party registration for the upcoming primary election. The attractive, young, blond staffer emphasized that party registration was Very Important, and of course one would not change affiliation lightly. Once in a generation [...]
Steve McMullin, 56, of Twin Falls, Idaho, one of the 10 Americans who were arrested while trying to bus children out of Haiti without proper documents or government permission, is escorted by a Haitian police officer upon his arrival to the court building in Port-au-Prince, Monday. Five of the ten [...]
EDITOR NOTE–Word on the street is Idaho Power ripped up the park on a muddy day, but has stepped up and will fix it. There are signs at the park saying they are good for the fix.
Aimee Moran
Bacon Dr. (next to Quarry View Park)
861-0055
Quarry View Park: I [...]
According to Phaedrus, Mary Souza of OpenCDA.com/CHRG has declared as successful the fund-raising effort for losing candidate Jim Brannon last night at the Greenbriar Inn. In the comments section, Phaedrus quotes Souza from 9:07 last night on Coeur d'Alene Press online comment section as saying that the' [...]
A lawsuit over the Forest Service’s approval of the use of helicopters in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness is no surprise.
But the widespread opposition by environmentalists shows that the Idaho Department of Fish and Game’s management of wolves is not drawing high marks even from groups that [...]
Toyota Motor Corp. Managing Officer Hiroyuki Yokoyama, right, bows after submitting the company's formal recall notice for its 2010 Prius gas-electric hybrid and two other hybrid models to Ryuji Masuno, director general of the Road Transport Bureau of the Transport Ministry, at the ministry in Tokyo Tuesday. Toyota is recalling [...]
Don Sausser returned with the first review of the new HBO Grub Club pick: Nosworthy. Here's the start to Don's review: "With the cook out of town this week and the Nalley's Chili cans running low what a wonderful time to fulfill the HBO requirement to dine at" [...]
The initial hype has subsided, but Eastern Washington University’s decision to replace the natural grass in Woodward Field with a red synthetic playing surface continues to stir interest and conversations across the country. Since the school first announced late last month that former Eagle Michael Roos and his wife, [...]
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[...]This is a second update on my experience at the joint conference of the Cooper Ornithological Society, the American Ornithologists' Union, and the Society of Canadian Ornithologist in San Diego California. Today was the first day of the general scientific paper presentations. The conference is organized with a general plenary' [...]
Pollster Scott Rasmussen has new numbers on his website today showing that Obama’s approval rating continues its inexorable downward trend. Today’s disapproval rating is 54%, his biggest negative number yet.
To put that number in perspective, remember that, a year ago, his positive approval was 65%. Now [...]
State Sen. Chris Marr, D-Spokane, will have a challenger in the November election.
Republican Michael J. Baumgartner, 34, filed paperwork last week with the state Public Disclosure Commission indicating that he will run against Marr for the senate seat representing the Sixth Legislative District, one of the most competitive districts in the [...]
The Ada County Highway District (ACHD) is installing the first of several new-design signals with flashing yellow, left-turn arrows at State Street/Bloom Drive/Plantation River Drive Tuesday morning. They replace the traditional green ball with a flashing arrow to tell drivers they can turn left if it is safe to [...]
The Who, led by rock legends Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey, transformed the Bridgestone Super Bowl Halftime Show into the most exciting 12 minutes in rock and sport, Sunday evening on CBS, unleashing a riveting live halftime performance at Super Bowl XLIV. The band's exhilarating set electrified [...]
New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton holds up the Vince Lombardi Trophy as he leaves the airport Monday in Kenner, La., after the Saints returned from the NFL football Super Bowl. The Saints defeated the Indianapolis Colts 31-17, attaining their first championship in franchise history. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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That is said in a whiny, double syllable wail. O, Mo-om!!! After I have done something, anything to embarrass my poor sons. Now that they have become well into their 30s, I don’t hear it at all, but when they were teens and young adults, it seemed to [...]
Attorney General Lawrence Wasden is skeptical about state school superintendent Tom Luna's plan to use $52.8 million in reserves to offset cuts to public education.
But in an interview Monday, Wasden would not say how he will vote on the proposal.
"I don't know what I'm going to do," he said.
Luna has [...]
Laura Silsby, 40, of Meridian, one of the 10 Americans who were arrested while trying to bus children out of Haiti without proper documents or government permission, is escorted by a Haitian police officer upon her arrival to the court building in Port-au-Prince on Monday. Five of the ten Americans were [...]
OLYMPIA -- Senate Democrats pushed changes to voter-approved tax-raising restrictions out of committee today, moving one of the more contentious issues of the legislative session toward a floor debate.
Democrats on the Senate Ways and Means Committee rejected several amendments proposed by Republicans that would have reduced the amount of time [...]
After Idaho hosted the Special Olympics World Winter Games last year, Sen. Les Bock (pictured), D-Boise, said he was startled when reading through an Idaho statute to see outmoded terminology like “mentally retarded,” “mentally deficient” and even “lunatic” and “idiot.” Bock said, “I think it made all of [...]
A detailed feature story from High Country News says so-
Prodigal Dogs. Have gray wolves found a home in Colorado? By Michelle Nijhuis. High Country News. [...] 
I love used books. I love to go to used book stores wherever I visit. I love St. Vinnies book section in CdA. I love to dig deep at the bottom of a shelf and find some title nobody else knew was there. I especially love used book [...]
Frank Griffin and his wife Loretta of Asheville, N.C., laugh during a news conference in Raleigh, N.C., Monday after claiming their Powerball jackpot winnings of $141 million. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)
Question: Aren't you happy for the lucky couple?
' [...]The GUARDIAN has it on good authority the City of Boise has paid off the guy who was Tasered in on or near his bum and threatened by a copper with having an electrical treatment to his family jewels last Valentine’s Day. Gerald Amidon had previously filed a suit against [...]
I'm beginning to understand Palin's immense popularity. I see a woman who is just enough politician to be canny. I see a woman who has taken her lumps and has come to realize she isn't quite where she needs to be to have the credibility to run for [...]
OLYMPIA -- Some obituaries were written over the weekend for bills that "died" in the Senate last week. That is, they didn't get out of their committee after having a hearing .
It's a list with enough diversity to make everyone shed a tear and heave a sigh. Among the casualties:
SB' [...]
How great is this: Tim Tebow's ad with his Mom was a fun, tender ad about the quality of life...and the hard early years...and it NEVER mentioned Abortion. NEVER! And all the pro-abortion people panicked this week and HAD TO show their hand, anticipating some type of culture' [...]
In learning that the President is summoning both sides of Congress to a televised discussion of his health care initiative, I suspect the Republicans are being set up.In this March 24, 2008, file photo, Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D- N.Y, left, addresses the crowd with Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., center, and Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell at the Fayette Campus of Penn State University in Uniontown, Pa. Murtha, an influential critic of the Iraq War [...]
Nosworthy won out over Syringa this morning (in HBO poll, 24-17) to become the second restaurant designated for review by the new HBO Grub Club. Eagle Keeper suggested Nosworthy. I don't think I've been in Nosworthy since it was called Ground Round way back when. Might be time for another visit. [...]
In a mother's eyes, every newborn is the most beautiful child ever born. But from the viewpoint of one generation removed, you might see some things you would rather not see. Such as: Yes, this new granddaughter is beautiful just because she's a brand new human being, she's' [...]
OLYMPIA -- Gov. Chris Gregoire says there are too many questions about last week's court ruling on the state's definition of "basic education" to say whether she supports an appeal.
Billions of dollars of state school funding could be at risk in the decision by a King County Superior Court Judge [...]
There’s only one acceptable prejudice left to Idahoans, and that’s making fun of Utah drivers. They’re terrible, they think they own our roads and they’re pretty sure they own Idaho. So join me, please, in pointing and laughing. I encounter more than my fair share of Utah motorists [...]
Dan Nash and his cat Kali enjoy a Cultural Olympiad art exhibit downtown Vancouver, British Columbia on Saturday. The 2010 Vancouver Olympics begin Friday. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
Anxious pastor tells congregation to keep praying for Haiti detainees/Bethann Stewart, Statesman, And: American missionaries go before judge again/NBCWolves pushed as 'park' [...]In Portland, Ore., an acquaintance w/the Portland Homebuilders Association is "putting a golf weekend together for my "old" 40-year-old friends" in Coeur d'Alene at the end of September. And was "wondering if (Huckleberries Online readers) have any hints as to houses to rent near (The Coeur d'Alene resort golf course) or good places" [...]
New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees (9) kisses his son Baylen after winning the NFL Super Bowl XLIV football game against the Indianapolis Colts in Miami Sunday. The Saints won 31-17. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Question: Can you describe a particularly close or poignant moment you had with your father?
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