| LR2 opens more doors to Land Rover
Land Rover, home of the full-size, $80,000, V-8 Range Rover SUV, now offers a more blue-collar compact LR2 at $35,000 for 6 cylinders.
Yup, for a paltry $35,000 you can own a vehicle from the same company as Queen Elizabeth's.
And as it now sells an "inexpensive" sport-utility, Land Rover itself is being sold, along with another prestigious British nameplate Jaguar.
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On a parallel track, philanthropist Peter Goldman, an environmental lawyer and board member of the Bicycle Alliance, had a heart-to-heart about city cycling with Mayor Nickels and Deputy Mayor Tim Ceis. The Mayor's Office phoned Cascade Executive Director Chuck Ayers: Let's meet. "The log jam burst," Hiller says. "There was finally a recognition that the city's bicycling community was large and active, growing and sophisticated, and not asking for anything unreasonable, just equal access to our public rights of way." The mayor announced a $300,000 Bicycle Master Plan to improve bike friendliness on urban streets and better connect the city's often discombobulated bike routes. His nine-year, $365 million transportation proposal, scheduled for the Nov.
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Coeur d'Alene Soldier Buried at Arlington National Cemetery
I pulled my car around back of the legion to avoid what I saw as a small funnel cloud picking up debris and still paralleling the highway. When the brunt of the storm passed, I left, primarily to check out the report of an injury at Farregut State Park. Thankfully, it was a false alarm. When I reached Bayview, realizing that the back end of the storm was aproaching. It passed just south of us drenching us with heavey rain. When It was all over, the local kids went out onto the docks to fish. One six year old fished a street sign out of the waterway between JD's and the Captain's Wheel. His Mom brought it up to the yard. It had been picked up by the twister, carried 300 feet and left a perfect 4x4 hole behind. The young man's picture will be featured in "Your Voice" in the near future. DFO: Here's another example of how the online world has an advantage over the print world and even the "film-at-11" types.
JC Industries apparent low bidder for Adkins Stadium project
The company's base bid of $4.537 million also was the lowest of the five bids opened Friday afternoon.The district's final decision is based mostly on the total of the base bid and four additional alternatives included in the bid package, said Bob Weber, the school district's Facilities and Planning director.The other four firms submitted total bids ranging from $5.198 million to nearly $5.737 million for the project."We'll have to review the bidders' details and their lists of sub-contractors," Weber said. "We'll also have to see whether any of their alternative bids offer options we want to use."Weber and Kimble said there is time to finish sorting through the options and still submit a recommendation to the school board at its special, 6 p.m. meeting Monday.The board's only agenda item is to accept or reject bids on the stadium project.
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