This one was too good to pass up. So, I moved it from Quick Fix 6 to become Photo of the Day. Here, Pennsylvania officers drag a tranquilized deer from a Weis supermarket in Reading, Pa., Monday. The 130-pound deer crashed through the front window…
re: from the SR Daily Briefing blog re: the behind-the-scenes decision on which of two Washington stories to run in the Idaho edition:Part of today's discussion was determining which of two stories our Idaho readers would be least interested in: New Gonzaga-themed license plates, or…
Here's the guy you read about in Huckleberries Best of the Northwest today: Barney Longacre of Frenchtown, Mont., applies liquid asphalt in his shop Monday, Oct.17, 2005, to a mirror frame he is making for first lady Laura Bush. Longacre and his wife, Judy, make…
Question: Why in God's name was a church's shunning of a member front page news? --HBO Commenter Sue Haynes to Spokesman-Review editors re. this story here.Answer: We placed Virginia de Leon’s excellent story about church shunning on the front page because we thought readers would…
I have a paperback on my office desk, featuring "The World's Dumbest Criminals." It was an office Christmas gift. I haven't looked at it in awhile. But I have a nominee for any followup books -- the clowns who were trying to pass off fake…
Jackie McAvoy: Heavily involved in community organizations. She serves on more boards and committees than I have fingers and toes. She punctuated several questions by saying: I serve on a committee for that. She emphasized that she's the only one of the three contestants who…
Kootenai County and other areas of our great state are flush with the newfound riches that escalating property values and a strong overall economy have fostered. We're spending those riches and committing future fortunes smug in the certainty that the good times will just keep…
This one was too good to pass up. So, I moved it from Quick Fix 6 to become Photo of the Day. Here, Pennsylvania officers drag a tranquilized deer from a Weis supermarket in Reading, Pa., Monday. The 130-pound deer crashed through the front window…
What would you tell President Bush regarding his choice of Harriet Miers? 1. Push forward, Miers is the best person for the job 2. Keep her, and get her to publicly say she'd overturn Roe v. Wade 3. Hold the Senate hearings and let the…
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.
