Up to one-fourth of the 110,000 jobs reported as saved by federal stimulus money in California probably never were in danger, a Bee review has found.
California State University officials reported late [...]
CRP says California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa is the richest' [...]
I'm going to take a few days off to clear my head of the campaign and election fog and to enjoy my kids. I'll officially turn the controls of HBO Central over to CindyH on Monday. I've warned her not to check out the cooler by herself (especially after Joker's [...]
Two bad trends have supplanted the good old days. The radical right, the tea baggers its new manifestation, is purging the Republican Party of moderate officeholders and candidates, and turning once-sensible office seekers into pander bears. Locally, an iron triangle of left interest groups (e.g. NARAL) liberal media (The Stranger, PubliCola) [...]
While I sit here watching “Law & Order,” I’m thinking about the movie that we saw earlier this evening - the curiously named “The Men Who Stare at Goats.” Based on the trailer, i was expecting a comedy. And a comedy is what I got. What I needed, though, [...]
Nick Anderson/Houston Chronicle
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What too many people fail to recall, and in many cases I consider this willful amnesia, is that Obama's sales pitch for the first stimulus package included a promise that, if passed, unemployment would rise no higher than 8 percent. Without the stimulus package, Obama's economic team (which includes Romer), predicted' [...]
Tricia Jo Webster/Fabulocity writes: "I found this “Life is Crap” cup during my inaugural visit to Halpin’s, one of the Valley’s hidden treasures. OK, really – sitting prominently on the corner of Bowdish and Sprague with a sign that can be seen from space without a telescope – it’s not all that hidden" [...]
While preparing for my conferences I started to think about what I would
like parents to know about teachers. Here are a few of them:
Idaho and Fresno State mirror each other in many ways. Fresno State has the No. 3 offense in the WAC, averaging 36.5 points a game, while Idaho is the No. 4 offense in the conference, averaging 33 points a game. The Bulldogs have scored 23 touchdowns while the Vandals have scored 22. [...]
While I sit here watching “Law & Order,” I’m thinking about the movie that we saw earlier this evening - the curiously named “The Men Who Stare at Goats.” Based on the trailer, i was expecting a comedy. And a comedy is what I got. What I needed, though, [...]
Nick Anderson/Houston Chronicle
[...]Sandpoint advanced to the state semifinals for the first times since 2005 by shutting down a potent Middleton ground attack. The Vikings, which utilize the double-wing, entered Friday’s game with a six-game winning streak and averaging nearly 270 yards per game rushing. Sandpoint (8-2) held Middleton (7-3) to just one first down and 14 yards [...]
The Vikings, losers of two straight to conclude the regular season, redeemed themselves with a 38-14 win over Lake City in a State 5A playoff opener Friday before an estimated crowd of 3,000 at LC. Coeur d’Alene (7-3) will play host to third-ranked Eagle (9-1) in a semifinal next Friday [...]
This past week a client of mine sent me an email which was instantly humorous, but prompted me to ponder its message further. Good humor is characterized by underlying kernels of truth. So it was with this message. After the initial amusement, the kernels of veracity [...]
Communicable Disease Alert!!!
A new health threat has been confirmed in Washington, D.C. President Barry Obama and his wife, Michelle O, were the first to be officially diagnosed with this virus. It is said to spread through direct contact.
Already, the virus has infected Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid [...]
Sometimes, when I hear other wives talking about their flaky pie crust or their super secret all-day lasagna recipe, I feel a little bad for Paul. All across this great land, men are trudging home from work, tired and hungry, only to be revived at the door of [...]
A tear runs down the face of Col. William Salter during a vigil at Fort Hood, Texas on Friday. Authorities said Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan shot and killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas on Thursday. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
[...]The miserable have no other medicine but only hope
— Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
Claudio was in prison hoping for a pardon to spare his life, but he could just as well have been foretelling of the lottery that passes for a U.S. health care system when Shakespeare penned those words for [...]
I saw the photo of the major smiling and holding a donut, just hours before he held out his gun and devastated the lives of thousands of soldiers and their families. In one instant, an entire community of soldiers and their families faced a new dynamic of total [...]
Volunteer Chantilly Burtis, left talks with Lookout Ski Patrol member Ron Lichti during set up of this years 11 annual Winter Swap at Kootenai County Fairgrounds in Coeur d'Alene on Friday. The sale opens Saturday , November 7 from 9:00-3:00 with thousands of new and used winter sports items available.' [...]
Wolf management plan draws big crowd. By Diane Urbani de la Paz. Peninsula Daily News [...] The Eagles Lodge reports that $2400 in cash, equally divided among 4 Washington Trust bank bags, was stolen from the Sherman Avenue organization between 5 p.m. Monday and 5:57 p.m. Tuesday. Trustee Bill Barlow reported to Coeur d'Alene police that the money was in an office inside the lodge. The' [...]
Floats carrying the New York Yankees baseball team make their way along Broadway during a ticker-tape parade celebrating their 27th World Series championship on Friday in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Question: Should New York have conducted the parade in light of the tragedy at Fort Hood, Texas?
[...]The unemployment rate in October rose to 8.9 percent in Idaho and 11.1 percent in Kootenai County. In some rural corners of North Idaho, one in five working-age persons is jobless. Seasonally adjusted unemployment edged up a tenth of a point statewide last month. In Kootenai County, the rate increase [...]
President Barack Obama said Friday the entire nation is grieving for those slain at Fort Hood, and he urged people not to jump to conclusions while law enforcement officers investigate the shootings. Obama met Friday morning with FBI Director Robert Mueller and other federal leaders to get an [...]
The use of Public Relations firms to build support for everything from jails to street cars and now football bowl bids is reaching the level of absurdity.
Does anyone really believe ADVERTISING and promotion will influence coaches and sports writers to grant BSU a bowl game bid?
The most prominent [...]
Don Sausser, HBO's Eye on Sherman Avenue, writes: "You know that the Christmas Holidays are approaching when Resort personnel are seen hanging lights on a blustery day."
[...]Four Coeur d'Alene High football players -- three of them starters -- suspended for an athletic code violation have been reinstated for tonight's state 5A football playoff game at Lake City, Viking coach Shawn Amos announced Friday morning/Coeur d'Alene Press. More here.
[...]Commentary from Dean Takahashi and a generous length interview by John Battelle, from the Web 2.0 Summit brings us up to date on Carly Fiorina at the start of her campaign for the U.S. Senate. Takahashi says she's a changed person since she was at HP, and [...]
It's just her side of the story (the Defendants and their spokespeople won't comment about a case now in litigation), but we appreciate the richness in the description from Pam Lowe about why she's moved from a tort claim to a wrongful termination suit, alleging sexual discrimination' [...]
Joker: The door to the cooler is weathered wood with an ironwork across the middle. While there is no door handle, there are claw marks on bottom of the door, as if something or someone couldn't get out. The sounds of dripping water echo through the cooler. I don't [...]
While going through the "new" Midtown for the first time, I was aghast at how dangerous the experience was. Traffic roaring past cars trying to park and/or sight see. Harrowing might be a better word. The difference between downtown Sherman and Fourth Street is obvious to me -- namely signals. [...]
A graduate of Rogers High School and Eastern Washington University working as a physician assistant at Fort Hood, Texas, was among 13 people killed in a rampage Thursday, according to a family member. Michael Grant Cahill was 62. Meanwhile, a Post Falls soldier wounded in the shooting spree is [...]
In his attempt to connect the dots, Bill McCrory/OpenCDA.com may be hinting that irregularities may have occurred during the City Council elections. It's hard to say exactly what she means by posting the Idaho codes for contesting elections for reasons other than the tightness of the vote. Bill ends by saying: "While'" [...]
Lynne Stratton, talked about her step son George Stratton III at their home in Post Falls on Friday, November 6, 2009. Stratton was injured during the shooting at Fort Hood in Texas on Thursday. (Kathy Plonka/SR)
A Post Falls soldier wounded in Thursday’s shooting spree at Fort Hood in Texas in [...]
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