Opinion Page Editor Doug Floyd & Co. met with Sue Thilo and PRmeister Mark Browning of the Idaho Board of Education this morning. Good frank discussion. But Sue and Mark made me nervous b/c they couldn't provide guarantees that the new Treasure Valley community college…
How do people tell the difference between God's plan and their God-granted free will? If using birth control is a sin because you're neglecting to bring a child into the world that God wanted you to, why isn't abstaining from sex just as bad? --…
Kerri Thoreson/fyinorthidaho.comThe Chatcolet Bridge in Heyburn State Park and the Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes is featured in the latest post by Kerri Thoreson/OnLocation North Idaho here.*OrangeTV/Making Flippy Floppy offers an awesome pictoral display to go along with his downtown Coeur d'Alene Museum Visitor Center…
Item: Idaho school districts sue justices/Betsy Z. Russell, Spokesman-ReviewMore Info: A group of school districts took the unprecedented step today of suing Idaho’s Supreme Court justices in federal court for ruling in favor of the districts in a school funding lawsuit but not providing any…
re: part of the letter sent to U.S. Sen. Larry CraigThe Idaho Department of Lands has fined Waterford Park Homes LLC $2500 which is the maximum allowed by statute. Negotiations are under way with the Idaho Department of Fish & Game Designed to restore the…
Jesse Tinsley/Spokesman-ReviewArmy National Guardsmen Nichole Malone, left, Adrian Menard, center, and Jason Rzepa help carry a giant U.S. flag at the beginning of the Post Falls Days parade Saturday, June 2, in Post Falls, Idaho. The three and their fellow soldiers are members of the…
Retiring Supreme Court Justices Gerald Schroeder and Linda Copple Trout are among Idaho’s most experienced and thoughtful jurists. They’re also class acts. Their early resignations help ensure the most vital aspect of our courts — independence. Schroeder, 67, and Trout, 55, are stepping aside to…
Captain Wayne Longo of the ISP will run his 23rd Coeur d’Alene Marathon on Sunday (May 27). His daughter Megan is finishing her junior year at Albertson College of Idaho where she’s an Academic All American on the ACI cross country team. While her proud…
Item: Leashless dogs can fetch fines: As more pets are brought to parks, officials want people to know the rules/Elida Perez, Spokesman-ReviewOwners who allow their dogs to run free in a public park or street, on Tubbs Hill, on the Centennial Trail, etc., are high…
Marina Kalani did something intelligent. Finally. It was one of the few intelligent things the former Kootenai County employee has done since her kissy-kissy e-mails with county prosecutor Bill Douglas came to light two years ago. She dropped the case. The Idaho Supreme Court decided…
My kids eat crap. Well, not literally. But as a divorced full custody father with two teenaged boys still at home and one daughter on her own – trying to do her best in a world where she strides assertively through the frozen foods section…
Idaho Escapee: What's in the Kalani-Douglas e-mails? Oh, who knows; perhaps excerpts of Penthouse Forum Letters combined with ruminations of "Desperate Housewives", with a little bit of not-so-subtle innuendo mixed in. And by accident, some official business probably crept in too, somewhere in there.DFO: Methinks…
You may have heard that Wayne Longo and Steve Childers are finalists to replace retiring Wendy Carpenter as the next Coeur d'Alene Police Department chief. And that they are captains, respectively, for the Idaho State Police and CPD Blue. But did you know that the…
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