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Republicans got their favored candidate in Pennsylvania’ s 11th District where conservative pro-immigration enforcement Mayor Lou Barletta. (Hat Tip: Campaign Spot.) This puts me in a festive mood, that I will now embed the theme to Baretta with two provisos:
1) Yes, I know the guy’s name is Barletta not [...]
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. (AP Photo/Rajah Bose)
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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" [...]
It's long-underwear cold again today, as I just verified by a walk over to the Library! to fetch a book I'd put on hold. (The temperature measurement was brought to mind by the fact that I didn't have my long underwear on.) On the way home, I saw something [...]
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, [...]
Betty Richardson, the former U.S. attorney and architect of the Idaho Democrats' last great resurgence in 1990 has spent the year looking for a candidate to challenge Idaho Republican Gov. Butch Otter.
She said today she has one. Here is her message in the Democratic newsfeed:
"I know you've all been hoping" [...]
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. [...]
HubbleSite's headline encapsulates the story: Hubble's Deepest View of Universe Unveils Never-Before-Seen Galaxies. Peering into the far distance (and long ago), considering the plethora of galaxies... it seems a shame to be so finite ourselves, isolated in this tiny [...]
The new community college in town, College of Western Idaho, thought they'd get 1,700 students for their year-ago opening. They came up 30% short of that, but then jumped to 3,618 this semester, and almost that many registered for next, with still a month to go. Mike Butts' [...]
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 [...]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 [...]
NPR's Planet Money reports that Britain plans to impose a one-time tax of 50% on bonuses (of $40,000 or more) to bankers. The estimate is that it'll affect 20,000 bankers through April.
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Have it sitting on your mantel! Personal Urns offers to build you a bust, full-sized "from just one or two photographs" in which you can keep your loved one's ashes. No, seriously. $2,600 will get 'er' [...]
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 [...]
Seems there is a move afoot for the State of Idaho to get out of the housing business for the Gov. The J. R. Simplot mansion at Bogus Basin and Cartwright Roads appeared to be a good deal for citizens and the price was right when J.R. Donated it a [...]
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 [...]
For sale (perhaps): Barely used residential real estate with great views in a convenient Downtown Boise location.
The state is facing up to some fiscal facts and basic logistics — Idaho has a governor's mansion it doesn't seem to need. Wisely, a state panel wants to spend the next two months' [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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' [...]
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 [...]
Nearly $6 million in stimulus money was paid to two firms run by Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton’s pollster in 2008.
Federal records show that $5.97 million from the $787 billion stimulus helped preserve three jobs at Burson-Marsteller,' [...]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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[...]The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray today after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that' [...]
WASHINGTON — As abortion took center stage in the Senate's historic debate over health care reform, Sen. Barbara Boxer was right in the middle of the fight, comparing an effort to limit women's access [...]
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. [...]
