Wild Card/Tuesday -- 10.21.14
Is there a week that goes by that Coeur d'Alene/Kootenai County aren't making news beyond our borders? Arfee. Burrito arrest. Hitching Post. What's next? You'll know moments after I do. Now for today's Wild Card ...
TUESDAY, OCT. 21, 2014
Parting Shot -- 10.21.14
Britain's Duchess of Cambridge, takes her seat a State Carriage for the carriage procession to Buckingham Palace as part of the ceremonial welcome ceremony for Singapore's President Tony Tan at the start of a state visit at Horse Guards Parade in central London Tuesday. Singapore's…
Top Comments -- 10.21.14
Top Comment -- Joker (RE: Arfee owner sues city for $350,000): Arfee's lawyers are going to make the city sit up, beg, go fetch and ultimately rollover. Top Commented Stories: SR: Idaho needs a new leader (36 comments), and: Ybarra dismisses controversies (28 comments), and:…
City: We Have Taken No Action
City of Coeur d'Alene issued this response via Facebook to the thousands of emails received today re: Hitching Post controversy: The city of Coeur d’Alene has been contacted by a huge volume of people inquiring about our anti-discrimination ordinance, passed in 2013 by the City…
Cutline Contest - 10.21.14
Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff flashes a hand gesture during a rally for her re-election campaign in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo) Monday Winner -- Psalm 37, with 13 likes: "Evel Knievel's family tree," and Runnerup -- EddieTorreal w/11…
PM Scanner Traffic -- 10.21.14
5:30 p.m. Kootenai County Sheriff's Office property crimes activities Oct. 20-21 here. 5:27 p.m. Someone injured in a fall @ 1100 block of Prairie Avenue/Hayden. 5:15 p.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activities report for Oct. 20-21 here. 5:12 p.m. Undisclosed suspicious circumstances @ 100 block…
PM Headlines -- 10.21.14
"This is for my granddaughter Cali," said Sue Trindle as she worked on Halloween decorations in the front yard of her home in Coeur d'Alene Tuesday. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka) Home invasion locks down Sandpoint school/KREM Panhandle Area Council turning around financially/Jeff Selle, Press Labrador…
HucksOnline Blogos -- 10.21.14
I really like this playful shot of Idaho First Lady, Lori Otter, taken during the Idaho Republican Bus Tour of North Idaho Friday, by Duane Rasmussen. If Lori Otter was running for re-election as First Lady of Idaho, she'd have my vote. Keg-and-carry/On Tap The…
Idaho Updates Marriage Licenses
The Idaho Board of Health & Welfare met today, and unanimously approved updates to the state’s marriage license certificates, including giving both applicants for a license the option to identify themselves as “bride,” “groom” or “partner.” The form also collects information on the gender of…
Otter To File Gay Marriage Petition
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter announced today that he's filing a petition with the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for an en banc re-hearing of Idaho's same-sex marriage case. “I will continue defending Idahoans’ self-determination and the will of Idaho voters who decided that traditional…
Arfee Owner Sues City For $350K+
A Bellingham attorney representing the owner of a dog shot and killed by a Coeur d’Alene police officer earlier this year will seek $350,000 in a lawsuit against the city. Adam Karp, who is representing Craig Jones, notified the city of the suit today. Karp…
Pastor Wonders About 'Wedding Mill'
Marci Glass, minister of the Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, offers a different perspective on the Hitching Post controversy. In her Glass Overflowing blog, she writes: Donald and Lynn Knapp are licensed ministers in the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. Which is great and…
Ma Nature On Display
On her Slight Detour blog, Marianne Love posts: :Mother Nature handed us a beauty (Sunday). My sisters, their pups, Willie and I took advantage and took our cameras to the aspen grove up Rapid Lightning Creek Road. At long last, the color has come, and…
Who's Best For Idaho Education?
IdahoED NEWS offers opposing opinions re: which top gubernatorial candidate offers best hope for Idaho education: State Sen. John Goedde, R-Coeur d'Alene, considers Gov. Butch Otter best here. Former legislator Steve Smylie considers Democrat A.J. Balukoff best here. Question: Which major guv candidate would do…
Fox Spotlights Hitching Post Hubbub
Fox News has picked up the Hitching Post controversy, in a story entitled: "City threatens to arrest ministers who refuse to perform same-sex weddings." The story includes this information: "Two Christian ministers who own an Idaho wedding chapel were told they had to either perform…
Gay Mayor's Demand Upsets Pastors
While we're braced for a possible battle royal re: the Hitching Post's refusal to officiate for gay marriages, there's a firestorm going on in Texas over a demand made by Houston Mayor Annise Parker to five pastors. The Washington Post explains: "Evangelical leaders are angry…
Update: Emails Bombard City Hall
A fundamentalist Christian organization in Mississippi has spearheaded a protest of Coeur d’Alene’s anti-discrimination ordinance, resulting in thousands of emails and phone calls today to the mayor and to Idaho Gov. Butch Otter’s office. The American Family Association put an “action alert” on its website…
Russell Wilson Wins Hands Down
Seahawk fan Cindy Hval visited Seattle recently to investigate that mysterious sucking sound coming from CenturyLink stadium. In the process, she visited the Experience Music Project museum, where they have an extensive Seahawk exhibit, including an outline of QB Russell Wilson's hand. As you can…
AM Scanner Traffic -- 10.21.14
11:37 a.m. Mother calls EMTs to say 7MO baby is crying uncontrollably after sucking on dryer sheet 30 minutes ago. 10:57 a.m. Deer hit by driver still alive by side of road @ Lancaster/Meadowood Lane/Hayden. 10:09 a.m. Smoke coming from washing machine filling house w/smoke…
Dems Rip Otter Support Of Candidate
The Idaho Democratic Party is criticizing Gov. Butch Otter and other Republican leaders for sending out letters asking lobbyists for campaign donations to seven legislative races, the AP reports, including one in which the GOP candidate’s criminal record for domestic violence was revealed early in…
AM Headlines -- 10.21.14
"This is our picnic after pre-school," said Katie Snyder of Coeur d'Alene as she ate lunch with her daughter Rowan Snyder, 3, at Finucane Park in Hayden on Monday. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka) Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SR INW LGBT center to close doors/SR Fire engulfs…
Poll: We Don't Believe In No Ghosts
Weekend Poll: Hucks Nation doesn't believe in ghosts. 143 of 252 respondents (56.75%) say they don't believe in ghosts. However, 92 of 252 respondents (36.51%) do. 17 (6.75%) were undecided. Today's Poll: How would you like to see the controversy over the Hitching Post play…
Builders Group Endorses Dem Noble
The North Idaho Builders Political Action Committee (NIB-PAC), representing the interests of the North Idaho Building Contractors Association has endorsed Bruce Noble for the Kootenai County Board of County Commissioners District One position. The endorsement was based on Mr. Noble’s “approach to problem solving in…
Quotable Quote
I'm not confident Idaho could handle a pinkeye epidemic -- S.L. Fisher (re: Idaho confident in Ebola response)
Democrats To Hear Chief White
Coeur d'Alene Police Chief Lee White will be at the Democratic Club on Friday. Open to all. Noon at the Iron Horse on Sherman Ave -- Kootenai County Democrats via Facebook. DFO: OK, chief, repeat after me ... if a Democrat at the luncheon asks…
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