Wild Card/Wednesday -- 9/28/05
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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 28, 2005
Wanted: Purple Heart Recipients
The Purple Heart Honor Roll in the Ronald D. Rankin Veterans Memorial Plaza is set to be updated soon. The honor roll currently includes the names of 131 Kootenai County soldiers who were wounded in action from WWI through Iraq. Anyone who knows of a…
Amber Still Getting Well-Deserved Hugs
Beaumont Police Officer Mitch White,left and Charla Sparks, far right traveled from Beaumont Calif., to thank Amber Deahn, center, for helping to rescue 8-year-old Shasta Groene and to capture Joseph Edward Duncan III, who has been linked to the murder of Anthony Martinez (pictured right).…
CDA Press -- Fastest Growing Snoozepaper?
Item: "The Coeur d'Alene Press and Post Falls Press offices will close at 4 p.m. today so staff can attend a special celebration. The Press is being recongized as American's fastest growing newspaper"/Brand X front page today.DFO: How can that be when Brand X isn't…
Naked October
We've bathed in an Indian summer of short sleeves and sandals. Nights of cool but not cold. Not cold yet. These are the gradual transitions of weather that mock our crashing through happenstance and plans. We can only look to calendars, to grass still green,…
Extra! Extra! DeLay Indicted
DeLay declares: 'I am innocent!' Probe by Democrat prosecutor leads to GOP leader's indictment/WorldNetDaily.Indictment. Hastert taps David Dreier of California here.
Much Ado About Nothing?
CDA Press Editorial: North Idaho left out of winners' circle/5 Idaho towns, Spokane make US best for raising kids but none from north. Wazzup?DFO: If I were king, it'd be against the law to put any part of North Idaho on a nation's best list.…
Quirky Question -- Compartmentalizing
On the way to work today, I was listening to some radio sports yakker named Colin/The Herd, a Jim Rhome wannabe. He contended that women better men in all but two significant areas: strength and the ability to compartmentalize. While women squeeze everything into one…
SR Letter of the Day -- Avista Execs Pay
I know why Avista needs another 23 percent increase from all of us in natural gas rates. It is so three of its top executives can stay on the list of 40 highest paid executives of Spokane publicly traded companies.The June 2 Journal of Business…
Quick Fix 6 -- 9/28/05
1. APhoto Fix: Anna Escobedo Cabral, left, Treasurer of the U.S., joins John Snow, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Treasury, at the unveiling of the new $10 note on Ellis Island, in New York harbor, earlier today. The most noticeable difference in the newly…
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