Gonzaga's Grant Gibbs, from left, Andy Poling and Chris Pontarolo-Maag battle for the ball against Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne's Antwone Sead in the first half of their NCAA college basketball game at McCarthey Athletic Center in Spokane Friday. ESPN game story & boxscore here. (AP Photo/Rajah Bose)
Jim Meehan's Sportslink [...]The Sandpoint football team chose an inopportune time to misfire on both sides of the ball. Blackfoot built a 29-9 lead before the Broncos held off a late Sandpoint rally 29-23 in the State 4A championship game before an estimated crowd of 2,500 at the Kibbie Dome. Sandpoint (9-3) took over at its 16-yard line [...]
Verlyn Klinkenborg observes individualism, identity and bicycles on the Stanford campus, a location which the headline writer quixotically equated to "northern California." Not exactly.
"There is a deeply pleasing randomness about the campus cyclists, as though" [...]
You had to connect the dots yourself with two stories in today's paper: one about Canyon County paying the ACLU $190,000, and the other about the the County shipping some of its inmates off to other jails, now including Gem, Payette, Elmore, and Washington Counties and [...]
OK - went to my 30th class reunion in August in Hamilton Montana. I had the BEST possible High School experience that I think anyone could. It was a small school. Not too clique-ee. By the time we were Seniors everyone pretty much got along and could hang [...]
Wearing Pilgrim hats, Springmyer Elementary school Kindergarten students Cameron McWilliam, left, and Antonio Buccino sing a song as they and the rest of the Kindergarten class take part in the schools annual Thanksgiving program at the Green Township, Ohio School on Friday. (AP Photo/The Cincinnati Enquirer, Ernest Coleman)
Question: Will any of [...]
have two people in my life that I have made them cynical, angry at times. Not at me...but at life. At the government. Both of these people could have cared less about politics 4 years ago. Both did not pay that much attention to the news. One of [...]
Mayor Sandi Bloem, City Council members, city staff, St. Vincent de Paul Board and staff, and officials from Contractors Northwest participated in a ribbon cutting ceremony for a 15-unit apartment house completed at the corner of Fruitland and Neider built with $2 million in grant funding from the Department of [...]
Kevin Richert wants to know if you really want the newspaper to be a watchdog or do they just say they do:
Reading both stories as objectively as I can — even though I’m a Statesman editor, albeit one with no say over news coverage — both stories pass my watchdog [...]
I’ve been asked several times where I stand on the Governor’s Primary between Governor Otter, Commissioner Sharon Ullman, and Rex Rammell.
We need a Governor, who’ll bring needed reforms to our state and tackle tough issues in education, and bring some real reform, and put our state on the road to [...]
Larry Spencer (Coeur d'Alene Press comments section): " I went to talk to Dan English about the military voter I had questions about, and the election office seems to have followed the directions from the Secretary of State, and correctly registered the former Post Falls resident using Dan'" [...]
Well, isn't this just ducky. After 11 years, I got laid off yesterday. On a stress scale, I think I'm off the charts. First there was the thyroid biopsy (which turned out fine). Then there was the anemia problem. Then the failing kidneys. Then 3-days-a-week, 3.5 hour dialysis [...]
Meet the Poole sisters: Aubrey, 21, Rochelle, 20, and Tiffany, 18. The three were each recently arrested for Petite Theft. This gives a new meaning to the idea of family togetherness. And just in time for the holidays!With less than a week before Thanksgiving, a family of wild turkeys parades through a Fernan Lake neighborhood, posts KerriT/OnLocation North Idaho.
Lynching of Sarah Palin/Bay Views10 places that make me thankful/Gathering Around the TableThe 70s!/It's Just MeI have ruined 2 people's lives/Simple MindTo [...]
Santa Claus, also known as Patrick Farmer, at Santa Claus House in North Pole, Alaska, holds letters from children sent this year that the U.S. Postal Service says they will no longer deliver. Citing privacy concerns, postal officials say that generically addressed letters to "Santa Claus, North Pole" will no [...]
It can be easy for children to get their hands on cigarettes. Our cameras were rolling as 15-year-old volunteer girls try to buy cigarettes at a dozen different places in Spokane and Spokane Valley. The health district goes undercover more than 100 times a year to make sure stores are [...]
LONDON — Seaborne raiders in a high-speed skiff tried again on Wednesday to commandeer the Maersk Alabama, the American-flagged ship' [...]
When the Statesman's Erika Bolstad broke a rock-solid story about bonuses awarded by outgoing and embattled Sen. Larry Craig, the detractors were quick to chime in. Their message, loosely translated: "Hey Statesman, let the Craig story die already." When Cynthia Sewell found some startling news about [...]
So now we know who’s responsible for Lou Dobbs. It’s the American Legion. Before announcing his resignation from CNN last week, the Rupert-bred commentator told the Legion that his experience with itsnationwide oratorical contest at Minico High School shaped both his world view and choice of career. Dobbs, [...]
We used to play 'keep away' with Bacchus all the time. When he grabbed the bone or the ball, however, the game was over. He had it, he was keeping it and that was that.The Milky Way spreads across the night sky over Mormon Row, an historic settlement, in Grand Teton National Park near Jackson, Wyo., Thursday night. The light in the distance is the city of Driggs, Idaho, on the west side of the Teton Mountain Range. (AP Photo/Jackson Hole News&Guide, Bradly J. Boner) [...]
In this film publicity image released by Summit Entertainment, Robert Pattinson, background left, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner, right, are shown in a scene from "The Twilight Saga: New Moon." Movie review here. (AP Photo/Summit Entertainment, Kimberley French)
Question: Should Bella have picked Jacob over Edward?
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For those keeping score at home, Mike Kralicek, the former Coeur d'Alene police officer who was critically wounded in the line of duty a few years back, supports Councilman Mike Kennedy 100 percent. I just got off the phone with Kralicek. He told me that he called Mike Kennedy,' [...]
As you know, I'm deeply indebted for the terrific job that CindyH does filling in for me while I'm on vacation. But saying thanks doesn't seem to be enough. So I figured I'd post this photo (monster hat tip to Sue) of a fundraiser planned by the Festival at Sandpoint. [...]
He may not sell as many copies as she-who-must-not-be-named, but having now seen Andre Agassi talk about his book in three interviews (with very little overlap, on 60 Minutes, the Tennis Channel, and for the New York Times Sunday Book [...]
Don Gillispie and his quest to build a nuclear power somewhere in Idaho or the West got a couple of boosts this week.
More than 250 people showed up for the second time in two years in Payette to speak about a nuclear power plant in their county. Both Gillispie and [...]
He's still looking good,
he's still looking fine,
but a little bit worse
than at age fifty-nine.
The Bard of Sherman Avenue
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I hit the Big 6-0 at about 1:30 this morning -- and the sky didn't seem to fall. I've received a number of condolences from friends, family, and co-workers. Betsy Russell tells me that 60 is the new 40. But I can't remember as many nicks in the chassis when' [...]
On the change of command at Idaho’s transportation Department.
Transportation was run by Pam Lowe
Otter said she had to go
Butch gave the whole mess
to a Michiganer named Hess
So much for “Buy Idaho”!
Related posts:COMPASS Action Politically Linked To Otter
[...]Despite its rocky start, the Burlington Northern Santa Fe refueling depot in Huetter received a nod of approval from the Kootenai County commissioners on Thursday. Continuing the conditional five-year compliance hearing that was tabled last week, the commissioners voted unanimously that the massive depot is in compliance with the conditions [...]
I don't blame the Republicans for not coming up with alternate legislation. It's a lot of work to draft a bill, and there's no secret it would be dead on arrival. But I do wish they could come up with more' [...]
Robert Hoskins’ op-ed on FWP giving the quarantined bison to Ted Turner-
Op-ed in the Casper Star Tribune. Illegal plan just makes Turner richer. By Robert Hoskins [...]
Being a Vandal, I like to reduce the difference between the University of Idaho and Boise State University to a glib one-liner: they win football games, and we won the National Medal of Arts. But again, that’s glib, and does a disservice — we win football games too, [...]
When the Statesman's Erika Bolstad broke a rock-solid story about bonuses awarded by outgoing and embattled Sen. Larry Craig, the detractors were quick to chime in. Their message, loosely translated: "Hey Statesman, let the Craig story die already."
Oprah Winfrey knows how to keep viewers on the edge of their seats. In the last 10 minutes of her show, Winfrey confirmed that she will be ending her syndicated "Oprah Winfrey Show" in September 2011. "After much prayer and months of careful thought, I thought that next" [...]
"It takes about a month to finish" said Coeur d'Alene Resort landscaper Chris Winter as he worked to string lights on a tree in front of the Coeur d'Alene Resort recently. The much anticipated Coeur d’Alene Holiday Light Show Opening Ceremony will be on Nov. 27, starting at 5:30 p.m., [...]
A crane removing an oak tree from the yard of Michelle and Kevin McCarthy is seen after it toppled into the house Monday afternoon in Santa Rosa, Calif. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Mark Aronoff, The Press Democrat)
Top Cutlines:
1. When asked who was to blame, several area residents had different explanations [...]Item: Group recommends fewer Pap screenings: Report unconnected to recent mammogram advice/Shari Roan, L.A. Times
More Info: Only days after a federal panel scaled back on breast cancer screening recommendations for many women, another organization – the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists – has done the same for a screening credited [...]
Item: BNSF depot in compliance: Commissioners agree to propose additional conditions for facility/Alecia Warren, Coeur d'Alene Press
More Info: Despite its rocky start, the Burlington Northern Santa Fe refueling depot in Huetter received a nod of approval from the Kootenai County commissioners on Thursday. Continuing the conditional five-year compliance hearing' [...]
Joe Heller/Hellertoons
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Stimulus funds being used to solve high vehicle/ungulate collision area on US 93, north of Wells-
Story on wildlife overpass. Las Vegas Sun [...] Part Six of Deadly Sins, Part Five of Powerhouse v. Nightlord, and Part Nine of Seperation are all up.
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The Navy website has quite a few new photographs of one of my old boats, USS Connecticut (SSN 22), participating in the U.S. - Japan ANNUALEX a few days ago. Here's 
