Gonzaga University and Whitworth College ranked among the region’s best schools and best values in the new rankings by U.S. News & World Report. The two Spokane private schools typically do well in the annual rankings. This year, GU was ranked 3rd among all master’s-level…
Babies Delaney Chadwell, left, Gabriel McCormick, Joseph Lockwood, Amanda Miller and Malachi Chapleski, right, perch on a chair at Dayspring Midwifery clinic in Hayden, Idaho on Thursday. The five babies were born within a six-day time period and were all at the clinic which handled…
Whatever happened to sandcastles? A couple of kids, a bucket, and a shovel and the works of art would emerge from the sand. Imagination blossomed ... sticks became cannons on the wall. White rocks adorned the walls and experimentation found just the right channel to…
*"Quest was landing their plane, and there was a noise. ... No, it didn't crash. ... It hit several geese that flew up in front of the plane as it was landing. ... 2 dead geese and several wounded ones. Plane was put in the…
Well, gang, here I go again, into the brave new world of Huckleberries. With all due respect, Brent Andrews is flat out wrong.We have long-held (before my time) and widely accepted ethics rules that limit -- no question, they limit -- the ability of our…
Issue: Chateau decides to take out the trash: Developer boots trash bins after county nixes proposal/Marc Stewart, Coeur d'Alene PressMore Info: The Dumpsters are used by the residents who vehemently opposed Kirk-Hughes' proposal to build a luxury golf course community. The project was rejected by…
Idaho State Sen. Shawn Keough isn't afraid to take an unpopular stand. During the 2001 Legislature, the Sandpoint Republican brought the Senate to a halt by using a procedural move to protest unilateral leadership actions in a lawsuit over inadequate school buildings. ... However, she…
... A summer day on the lake aboard Captain UBob's boat. Here, you see one of Toad's younguns expressing his thrill of the moment. Toad calls the photo "Unadulterated Happiness." By the way, Huckleberries hears that ... Mr. and Mrs. Toad have a third pollywog…
Amyrebba: It seems to me that we are all scream about the field burning, but no one if finding a solution that will both benifit the farmers and save us from respritory distress. I am not a seed farmer and I do have asthma, but…
Huckleberries Online commenter Post Falls Dad shoulda thought he'd hit the lottery when he opened his Avista bill Thursday. After all, he got a natural gas credit of $909.86. Thinking he'd been "punked," he called the utility and was told: "We tested your meter and…
re: internal memo e-mailed to newsroom my SR Editor Steve Smith Thursday p.m.Folks,I wanted to send out a cautionary note re: staffers who participate in our many online blogs and forums.A few weeks ago, I allowed myself to be sucked into a dynamic and exciting…
Thom George: DFO; how went the meeting with the boss, re: Daily Huckleberries?DFO: Extremely well. Daily Huckleberries will continue this fall on the other side of my last weekly vacation (Aug. 28 to Sept. 1). Importantly, Editor Smith has agreed to lighten my editorial-writing load…
Katherine Hepburn was sure right about getting old being only for the brave. I recently blew $23 on a lotion to make my skin look more radiant and my age spots less visible. It was going to take 8 weeks to see the difference. I'm…
Ayla, a service monkey for the disabled, throws out the first pitch prior to a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers at Fenway Park in Boston Wednesday evening. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)Top Cutlines:1. Ayla was a bit timid…
“Please Seat Yourself” read the sign at the café entry. The gift shop, casino, and bar were abuzz with activity but the cafe was empty but for one random table full of rather gothy looking teenagers who looked like they’d been sitting there for three…
First, conservatives had the anti-gay-marriage initiative, brought by the Idaho Legislature. Then, they had the candidacy of Rep. Bill Sali, a Christian activist legislator running for Congress in District 1. Now, they have the potent symbol of their religion, the Ten Commandments, front and center,…
Jane Q. Citizen: Where's Sam? Has he gotten married yet? Is he in the cooler? Inquiring minds want to know. :)DFO: Sam's serving a self-imposed exile. He hasn't posted since that recent dust-up when people questioned his professionalism. He doesn't intend to post again. No,…
DanG: When you line up many of the people who are against Sali, they are not my most favorite pols in the world. Newcomb and Crowe held the legistlature hostage for years and stopped up lots of good stuff; they had no love for North…
Issue: Retired doctor can't afford to volunteer: Physician Norman Leffler would like to help out at Dirne Health Care Center, but malpractice insurance would cost $10,000/Tom Greene, Coeur d'Alene PressMore Info: He wants to work at the nonprofit Dirne Health Care Center -- which currently…
Wonder how many of the huddled masses yearning to be free in Suffering California would be heading our way, if they knew what it really was like up here now. SR buddy Jesse Tinsley did a little photoshopping to show outsiders what the local chamber…
Issue: Schoolteacher arrested in JonBenet Ramsey case: Suspect already in custody in Bangkok on unrelated sex charge/New York Times; and: Suspect claims: 'Her death was an accident': Police: 'He said he was in love with the child. She was a pageant queen'/Associated Press Question: What's…
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.