When I’m being a typical guy, I don’t like to cry. In public or elsewhere. But especially not in public. That may be why I have such a problem with movies based on Nicholas Sparks novels. I hate feeling manipulated toward emotions that cause my eyes to well [...]
Pearl Harbor survivors are honored during the 68th anniversary ceremony of the attack at Pearl Harbor earlier today at Pearl Harbor Naval Base in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)
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“Baucus is the the most anti-charismatic Montanan in the state,” writes Kidder, a Livingston, Mont., resident. “The hideous truth is that this empty suit-person almost singlehandedly took the reform out of health care reform, has introduced and somehow passed more legislation to abet the cornucopia of crime that [...]
Kootenai County Sheriff's Department patrol deputy Gavin Brodwater prepared to leave from the Coeur d'Alene Police department earlier today as part of a caravan including the Coeur d'Alene Police Department Honor Guard, Post Falls Police, Idaho State Police and Bonner County Police. The officers drove in procession to Seattle to [...]
Coeur d’Alene Detectives arrested Ray David Rosales, 18, of Coeur d’Alene, for the burglary of Duncan’s Pet Shop that occurred on Aug. 24. Also charged in the burglary is Kodi L. Walker, 19, of Coeur d’Alene, who was arrested two weeks ago for this offense/Sgt. Christie Wood, Coeur d'Alene Police' [...]
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Tagsfirst appearancesKootenai County District CourtThree Coeur d’Alene men were due in court today on charges that they robbed a coffee stand at gunpoint over the weekend. Charles E. Spencer, 24 (top left); Arthur William Wilson, 18 (right); and Andrew Wayne Bryant, 18 (bottom left), were arrested [...]
Huckleberries has learned from County Clerk Dan English that retiring Judge Charles Hosack has been assigned to replace Judge John Mitchell as presiding judge over the election challenge filed by losing candidate Jim Brannon. Dan of the County didn't know whether the decision by Mitchell to recuse himself from the' [...]
Huckleberries has learned that Kootenai County Demo chief Thom George and his wife, Melinda, 3948 Magnuson St., are hosting a fund-raiser for Councilman Mike Kennedy, to help defray legal expenses from Jim Brannon's challenge. Walt Minnick will be the guest speaker at the event, which will take place from 10 [...]
By midway on the
route he'd chosen,
his nether regions
all had frozen.
The Bard of Sherman Avenue
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Alex Wood said he will retire from the Legislature at the end of next year, creating a possible free-for-all among Democrats in central Spokane's 3rd District.
Wood told the Warren G. Magnuson Democratic Club at lunch today that the upcoming session (sessions, perhaps if they can't figure out the [...]
Jorgenson has been the sponsor of several unsuccessful anti-immigration bills in the Legislature focused on Idaho employers. “I’ve had many debates and discussions with Raul Labrador and I do know his history on this,” Jorgenson said. Labrador, asked about the Hayden Lake senator’s move during his Boise announcement, didn’t mince [...]
At Priest Lake, Pecky Cox/As The Lake Churns spotted nature's art as she walked along the beach this morning.
How green is your valley, and: Death takes a vacation/Dogwalk MusingsGlobal warming/From A Simple MindNIAC karaoke benefit at Baja Bargarita/Get Out! North IdahoRemembering school Chrismas memories through [...]‘Twas the night before Sarah Palin’s visit, when all through the town,
Not a teabagger was stirring, not even Anymouse
The stockings were hung by the chimneys with care,
In Hopes that Saint Sarah would soon be there.
While visions of taxbreaks and big guns danced in their [...]
State Sen. Mike Jorgenson this morning called on fellow Republican legislator Raul Labrador to withdraw from the 1st Congressional District race. Today, Labrador is planning to formally announce his candidacy against Vaughn Ward in next spring's primary election. "Raul Labrador is an immigration attorney and admits to defending" [...]
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Speaking of justice, let’s hope they throw the book at the creeps who aided Clemmons in his futile flight. Sure, I’ve devoted plenty of words over the years to the subject of police misdeeds. But contrary to what some of my critics would suggest, I’m not anti-cop. Not at all. I [...]
As I write this the high for the day is to be 13 degrees. The wind chill is in the minus range. The howling of the wind is a distraction. It is expected to last the remainder of the week.
And in the game-turning moment, freshman forward Elias Harris – the happy revelation of this young season – whacked Wake’s Chas McFarland with an ugly forearm shot to the gullet, properly earning him a flagrant technical foul and ejection. A series of town halls is in the works to [...]
A flock of ducks launch from the open water area of Cannon Hill Park pond Friday in Spokane. Most of the water surface has iced over except for a small area on the south-side of the pond where the ducks can still swim. (Dan Pelle/SR)
Vehicle strikes 2 students on different crosswalks [...]
Captain Ben Wolfinger told me today that they invite a criminal complaint on this matter, and will definitely follow through. If you have received one of these pieces of filth and desire the perpetrators to be brought to justice for littering, call the Kootenai Sheriff department 208-446-1300 and [...]
In the story that the S-R broke last week re: the hate crime perpetuated against a local man of Middle Eastern descent, newspaper editors debated how to crop this photo. The editors and I had trouble with the foul name spray-painted on the man's vehicle in the lower lefthand corner [...]
Back in 2008, Republican Bill Sali was the incumbent and his challenger, Democrat Walt Minnick, was targeting Sali's spokesman Wayne Hoffman. Hoffman was drawing a federal salary as Sali's congressional office press spokesman. He was also working on Sali's campaign - and it was tough to tell when [...]
On a normal day, Majken Friss [...]
One of the first in line, waiting since 3:45 in the morning, Katelynne Brown rests as she waits for a Sarah Palin book signing at Legacy Books in Plano on Friday. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Lara Solt)
In the Saturday issue of the S-R, an advertisement said that local residents [...]
In the Saturday issue of the S-R, an advertisement said that local residents can begin lining up outside the garden entrance at Coeur d'Alene's Fred Meyer to have Sarah Palin sign copies of her book, "Going Rogue," at 11 p.m. Wednesday. The book signing begins 13 hours later, from noon' [...]
According to our friends at OpenCDA.com and its "reliable source," Judge John Mitchell has disqualified himself from hearing the case involving challenger Jim Brannon's lawsuit to overturn the Coeur d'Alene municipal elections. I'll check that out in a bit. I'll post this Wild Card first, in case some of your' [...]
According to our friends at OpenCDA.com and its "reliable source," Judge John Mitchell has disqualified himself from hearing the case involving challenger Jim Brannon's lawsuit to overturn the Coeur d'Alene municipal elections. I'll check that out in a bit. I'll post this Wild Card first, in case some of your' [...]
Coeur d’Alene Police have arrested three males in connection with the robbery that occurred at Dutch Bros. Coffee on 12/05/09. Detectives acted upon an anonymous tip and were led to a residence at 1015 Mill Ave. The three males were interviewed by detectives and then taken into [...]
Coeur d’Alene Police have arrested three males in connection with the robbery that occurred at Dutch Bros. Coffee on 12/05/09. Detectives acted upon an anonymous tip and were led to a residence at 1015 Mill Ave. The three males were interviewed by detectives and then taken into [...]
In this undated photo, Melodee Hanes, a former deputy county attorney for Yellowstone County, Mont., poses for a photo after announcing she was leaving her job to join Sen. Max Baucus' re-election campaign in March 2002. Baucus defended recommending his girlfriend for appointment as Montana's U.S. attorney, saying Saturday his' [...]
In this undated photo, Melodee Hanes, a former deputy county attorney for Yellowstone County, Mont., poses for a photo after announcing she was leaving her job to join Sen. Max Baucus' re-election campaign in March 2002. Baucus defended recommending his girlfriend for appointment as Montana's U.S. attorney, saying Saturday his' [...]
The number of Spokane-area Pearl Harbor survivors has dwindled to a handful as the nation marks the 68th anniversary of the attack that propelled it into World War II. But there was a time, Jim Sinnott recalls, when survivors were so plentiful he had five or six as co-workers at the [...]
The number of Spokane-area Pearl Harbor survivors has dwindled to a handful as the nation marks the 68th anniversary of the attack that propelled it into World War II. But there was a time, Jim Sinnott recalls, when survivors were so plentiful he had five or six as co-workers at the [...]
Item: Timber law becomes vast entitlement/Matthew Daly & Shannon Dininny, Associated Press
More Info: A four-year renewal of the law, passed last year, authorizes an additional $1.6 billion for the program through 2011 and shifts substantial sums to states where the spotted owl never flew. While money initially was based [...]
Item: Timber law becomes vast entitlement/Matthew Daly & Shannon Dininny, Associated Press
More Info: A four-year renewal of the law, passed last year, authorizes an additional $1.6 billion for the program through 2011 and shifts substantial sums to states where the spotted owl never flew. While money initially was based [...]
The matter has been lost in the local blogosphere. Until now. Before Christmas, Larry Spencer challenged the right of Army Sgt. Maj. Gregory A. Proft to vote in the local elections, based on residency. And Proft fired back in a Coeur d’Alene Press comment below a Spencer letter [...]
The matter has been lost in the local blogosphere. Until now. Before Christmas, Larry Spencer challenged the right of Army Sgt. Maj. Gregory A. Proft to vote in the local elections, based on residency. And Proft fired back in a Coeur d’Alene Press comment below a Spencer letter [...]
Former U.S. Rep. Bill Sali has been keeping quiet about whether he wants to run for his old job, but the rumor mill is wide awake.
Conservative activist and former congressional candidate Dennis Mansfield predicts that Sali will join — and ultimately defeat — Vaughn Ward and state Rep. Raul [...]
Idaho center Marvin Jefferson (53) blocks the shot attempt of Portland guard T.J. Campbell (44) as Mac Hopson (1) tries to help on defense during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Sunday at Memorial Gym in Moscow, Idaho. Campbell was held to three points on 1-of-11 shooting [...]
The most cherished World War II anniversary is marked today, the date that President Franklin Roosevelt said "would live in infamy." Dec. 7, 1941, marked the entry of the United States in that terrible war, over two years after it had started. For the greatest generation that fought [...]
North Idaho’s Scott Brusaw is already looking at the next phase of his solar road dream.
Brusaw, of Sagle’s Solar Roadways is finishing up his prototype of a solar road panel under a U.S. Department of Transportation grant. His next step is to partner with Pennsylvania State University's' [...]
Hungarians attend a "Santa Claus Run" in downtown Budapest, Hungary, Sunday. Some hundred people ran together in their underwear, in temperatures around the freezing point during the annual charity run. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)
Top Cutlines:
1. Jim Brannon’s legal research team prepares their briefs before District Court/Phaedrus.2. Hungary for attention, revelers [...]
Running under the Tea Party brand may be better in congressional races than being a Republican. In a three-way Generic Ballot test, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds Democrats attracting 36% of the vote. The Tea Party candidate picks up 23%, and Republicans finish third at [...]
As the whistle blows on the irony train pulling into Vandal Station, nobody is quite so pleased with Boise State’s return to the BCS party than the University of Idaho. Sometimes, happiness is a moral dilemma. For the Broncos’ reward – and a few other toppling dominos – assured a [...]
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