"I believe in praying for my enemies and encouraging others to do so. If that makes me a bad senator, I don't want to be a senator at all. My faith is more important to me than any elected office. It always has been and it always will be" -- state Sen. Branden Durst, D-Boise.
Question: Wow! What a concept! Do you suppose an approach like this might help all the kings horses and all he kings men put broken Coeur d'Alene back together again?
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.