Evelyn Johnson, 19 months, of Tulsa, Okla., samples snow for the first time while visiting Vail, Colo., with her parents today. A fast-moving winter storm covered the Vail Valley floor with six inches of snow, with an additional six inches predicted by Saturday morning/Peter M.…
Whether a matter of intention or slippage we do not know, but the one extended report of the Lewiston debate between 1st congressional district candidates Bill Sali and Larry Grant appear to have sounded a little different note. We weren’t there, and it wasn’t televised…
The racing sausages make their way around the field between innings at a baseball game between the St. Louis Cardinals and Milwaukee Brewers Wednesday in Milwaukee. You write the cutline.(AP Photo/Morry Gash) 1. Announcers at the Sausage Olympics: "Hey, Bob, this race is closer than…
I don't know how CDADave did this, but it made me chuckle.
Cis Gors/From A Simple Mind has come up with another Easter Egg to test your mettle as you watch the clock count down to the weekend. In this one, you have 60 seconds to park a car in a crowded lot. Cis made it on…
Seattle PI Question: Researchers have found that there are more TVs than people in the average American home. Is this true for your household? (See related article.) YesNoNot sureDFO: Dunno how you can be "not sure" on this question. But I have one TV and…
Gas prices are falling in the South and the Midwest. So why do they remain so stubbornly high in the Intermountain West? That's what Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal wants to know. On Wednesday, Freudenthal sent a letter to refineries asking for information about why gas…
Erica Curless is trying to decipher an Idaho Supreme Court ruling that seems to put the high-water mark on Lake Coeur d'Alene at 2128 feet above sea level, or basically, the summer level. You can read it here. Stay tuned.
Two young boys died in an early morning house fire in Coeur d'Alene today. Investigators believe the brothers, ages 4 and 5, may have started the fire by playing with a lighter and paper. Police this morning did not release the names of the victims…
Sara: I really don't get this. Why is everyone so afraid of Nancy Pelosi? What does anyone know about her? I barely know who she is, and I follow politics pretty closely.Rainbow Sparkle Pony Angel: Why the GOP despises her: 1. She's a woman, 2.…
Patrick/OrangeTV: My self imposed cat limit has always been two, but Ms. Ling-Ling's last batch of babies(she's fixed now) had one I just couldn't bear to part with, so baby makes three. They are mainly "outside cats" and are very well trained. I can't imagine…
We're not going to spend a lot of energy arguing that North Idaho College is breaking the law by prohibiting the general public from attending a candidate forum next week. We will suggest, though, that the college is missing a great opportunity to build bridges…
re: the requirement by BYU-Idaho prof Ryan Crisp that students in some of his classes wear suits, ties and dresses.Three weeks ago, there was an address given to the student body here at BYU-I where President Kim B. Clark (who by the way, previous to…
'Twas nice to walk into the Coeur d'Alene Starbucks Thursday morning and hear coffee klatchers discussing revelations about Duane Hagadone's controversial mega-house in Palm Desert, Calif. The info came from my Thursday column. I answered a klatcher's question about Hagadone's proposed expanded foot pad of…
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.
