Monster Hat Tip to Coach Mark Few & the 2014-15 Zags for the entertaining season that ended thisclose to the Final Four. The Zags did their job this year getting us from Fantasy Football, er, the NFL, through the winter and early spring until Major...
So you think the Ents from Middle Earth simply blended back into the forest? Think again. Keith Boe of North Idaho Life Facebook wall has evidence that they might have migrated to North Idaho College beach.
So you think you're the only one going through withdrawals as a result of the end of the Gonzaga Bulldog season and "Walking Dead" all within hours yesterday? Think again.
AM Scanner Traffic (15 items + AM Scanner Traffic link) for Monday afternoon, including 24YO male who passed out in tech room of Post Falls Library ...
5 pieces of public art are under consideration for placement along the Spokane River in the area of North Idaho College. The art is on display at the Coeur d'Alene Library. The city of Coeur d'Alene is looking for public input before making a final selection.
Last Democrat In Idaho comments on a county proposal to eliminate a 25-foot vegetative buffer on our waterways: "These commissioners and the poorly informed consultants they hired to do their dirty work are so very badly informed about this issue." Are we starting to see anti-planning radicalism of newby Commissioners Marc Eberlein & David Stewart?
While vacationing in prairie states recently, Duane Rasmussen snapped this photo of a doll's head that was found in a burned field in eastern Kansas. You write the cutline. Weekend Winner: gitrdun, with 8 likes: "Otter, trying to show that he is in tune with...
That comprehensive tax cut offered by the House GOP will hit the middle class of Idaho hardest. A two-income family of three making Idaho's median income of $55,949 would experience a $228 tax increase, according to the Associated Taxpayers of Idaho. All Kootenai County representatives voted for this tax increase on the middle class ...
If you're clinging to the faulty notion that the McEuen Park makeover was a bad idea, you need to drive down to the park sometime this week during a sun-shiny day. Walking partner Greg Lee & I encountered all kinds of activity in the greenspace…
In the daily blog roundup today, Marianne Love takes her camera for a walk as she goes through Gonzaga Bulldog withdrawals, Slice offers some now-useless Indianapolis trivia+7 Blog looks at the Friday moving openings+Writing North Idaho reveals tricks of Patrick McManus in writing humor+more ...
At the Lewiston Tribune, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase comments on Idaho's pursuit on its pipe dream to take over public lands -- and the continue waste of money to do so in the legal arena.
The Duke-Gonzaga game on CBS drew the best overnight rating in 10 years for a Sunday NCAA Tournament regional final. The network announced Monday the 9.9 overnight rating. The Elite Eight doubleheader, including the Louisville-Michigan State game, averaged an 8.6 overnight rating/18 share, a 10…
If you liked the 2006 Gov. Risch tax shift on education, you'll love the 2015 Rep. Moyle tax shift on...everything else -- Common Sense, Idaho.
At the Coeur d'Alene Press Online, 69 percent of the respondents oppose a recently rejected Kootenai County GOP Central Committee resolution seeking to designate Idaho as a "Christian state." In a similar poll Feb. 23, 88 percent of Hucks Nation opposed Idaho being declared a Christian state ...
In his "A Grip on Sports" SR blog, Vince Grippi writes that this is the year that Gonzaga men's basketball upped its game from "good" and "consistent" to "exceptional." And Grippi is predicting that the Bulldogs will be in the hunt for a Final 4 berth again next year, if they can keep Karnowski, Sabonis & Wiltjer from going pro ...
New Kootenai County Commissioners Stewart and Eberlein have proposed eliminating the 25' natural vegetative setback/buffer zone around our lakes and rivers "to protect lakeshore residents property rights." Science shows the need for buffers to filter out pollutants from entering our waterways. A 25ft buffer is...
Boundary County once again caught a flash of the national spotlight for a dubious and unenviable reason this week when Bonners Ferry was listed on an Islamic State in Syria and Iraq “hit list.” The list, reportedly generated from online and social media sources of…
The House has voted 53-17 in favor of HB 311, the tax bill sponsored by House GOP leaders that would lower top income tax rates, remove the sales tax from groceries while eliminating the grocery tax credit, and raise the fuel tax by 7 cents...
What were we discussing one year ago? Well, the new Freedom Tree at McEuen Park, for one thing. Some area veterans were upset when the old tree was removed, as being in wrong place at wrong time. But new tree and expanded veterans plaza seems to have quieted any long-term controversy. See below for the rest of the story ...
... Our hope that the 2014-15 Gonzaga Bulldogs would make the Final Four?
AM Scanner Traffic for Monday (11 items) includes two possible drunks and two possible trauma injuries so far this morning ...
In an editorial, Twin Falls Times-News advises ambitious Congressman Raul Labrador to abandon the Tea Party ship before it's too late -- and he becomes a casualty of the right-wing extremism. The editorial sez recent vote on Medicare overhaul (w/PILT amendment attached) is further evidence that uber-cons have lost hold on GOP ...
Seems Spokane has a famous hamburger joint, too -- Dick's Hamburgers. And SR columnist Doug Clark dropped by to learn how the waiters at Dick's can take orders during rush times without writing anything down. Question: Have you ever eaten at Dick's Hamburgers? I haven't.
The Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy has released an analysis of the effect of HB 311, the GOP leadership’s tax bill, on Idahoans of various income levels. The conclusion: People in the middle 20 percent, with incomes ranging from $38,900 to $61,000 a year, would…
House Minority Leader John Rusche of Lewiston has asked that Cindy Agidius be removed as communications director for the House Republican Caucus, reporter Bill Spence of the Lewiston Tribune reports, saying she's using the position to “hound” and “spy” on a Democratic caucus member (who defeated her last November) ...
D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.
