On Jan. 1, The Spokesman-Review editorial board will recognize five people for extraordinary contributions to their communities this year. Readers are encouraged to let us know of Inland Northwest citizens you consider deserving in the following categories:•Citizen activist •Businessperson•Government official•Nonprofit worker•Lifetime achievementExcept for the lifetime…
Chris Peterson/Glacier Geographics, Muse You Can UseChris Peterson/Glacier Geographics explains how baby goats are made here.*Kevin Richert correctly points out that kayakers and canoeists shouldn't be barred from attending a meeting to discuss charging them for using Idaho waterways, another of Gov. Butch Otter's closed…
Noah Kroese/Special to Huckleberries Online
Wow. Check out this Washington Post story about the fight over open primary elections in Virginia, which has eerie echoes of the debate here in Idaho on the same issue. In a little different twist, however, Virginia’s Republican Party has decided to deal with the…
The Spokesman-Review announcement was the most dire, but newsrooms across Idaho are smaller than they were before. That includes the Idaho Statesman, which over the past several months has declined to fill some positions as they go vacant, including a state reporter position and a…
Item: Lake City High gets early Christmas gifts with transfer of New Hampshire brothers/Greg Lee, Spokesman-Review LC is heavily favored to capture the Inland Empire League championship. Coach Jim Thacker, who won nearly 500 games in three decades at Walla Walla, figured he'd have a…
Item: Hillary set to speak at evangelical megachurch: Candidate addressing AIDS summit at Rick Warren's Saddleback Church/WorldNetDailyQuote: The first thing is that this is not a church service, and, second, there isn't a pulpit on stage," said Warren, author of the best-seller "The Purpose-Driven Life."…
John L. Smith has seen the country during his coaching career but a little home cooking still appeals to the veteran. Smith said Wednesday by phone he is interested in returning to Washington State, where he was an assistant in 1987 and 1988, to fill…
I awoke about midnight. 12:01 a.m., actually. I followed my standard morning routine, hopping on the computer to make the usual web site checks. Drudge Report. Facebook. New York Times. Huckleberries. Drudge Report again. Drudge hadn't been updated in a while, it seemed. That reminded…
Kerri Thoreson/OnLocation North IdahoThe world's tallest Christmas tree, at 161 feet, is more than twice the size of the tree at New York's Rockefeller Center (75 feet tall). The 120-year-old Grand Fir (Abies grandis) overlooks Lake Coeur d'Alene from the waterfront home of Duane Hagadone…
Item: Governor's office sets up meeting to talk about registering drift boats, kayaks, canoes and rafts/Pete Zimowsky, Idaho StatesmanMore Info: Owners of non-motorized boats in Idaho could find themselves charged a registration fee like the one paid by motorized boat owners to help pay for…
You thought it was bad now with all the new people moving in. I'll bet this publicity just enticed the next wave to relocate here with this 'Good Morning America' appearance. Sounds like to me like whoever set this little show up sure could care…
By my count, this morning’s coverage of Coeur d’Alene on ABC's "Good Morning America" was much less than "15 minutes of fame" scattered over two full hours in fragments as fleeting as two brief bursts of fireworks overshadowed by tragic headline news and inane moderator…
Joe Heller/Hellertoons
I debated getting up at 3 in the morning to participate in the Coeur d'Alene welcome for "Good Morning America." But that thought gave way to reality as I was still up at 1 a.m. reading Robert Ludlow's "The Bourne Ultimatum." After a slow start,…
It has been bad enough for the three seasons the construction has been going on. There are actually businesses on that stretch of Government Way we try to patronize. One way traffic through ruts as deep as your bumpers was bad, the drop offs into…
Glenn Moore/Tracy Press, AP PhotoPatricia Brown gives 'Broccoli', her 250-pound pot bellied pig, a kiss Monday in Tracy, Calif. Broccoli was rescued by firefighters on Saturday after falling in to the family pool. Brown was unable to lift the pig out of the water and…
At last check, I've now been awake for 30 straight hours, so you'll have to forgive the grammatical and spelling errors I'm certain to make. I'm about to head to bed, but I had to write first about an absolutely amazing morning in Coeur d'Alene.…
Item: Alaska Air imposes 10% surcharge on heterosexuals/Idaho Values AllianceMore Info: When an employee complained that this was “reverse discrimination,” since there is no “micro-website” for heterosexuals (or for Blacks or Hispanics for that matter), the employee was informed essentially that moral values don’t matter…
We spent a day and a half hunting in the Benewah County woods. I was decked out in blaze orange because, as the man said, it's a war zone in the woods during hunting season. That's how it sounded. Gunshots and four wheelers firing off…
There will be no toys this Christmas! No, I haven't become the toy-hating Burgermeister Meisterburger. I have decided that we will not be buying toys for our kids this Christmas. This has nothing to do with all those recalled Chinese toys of recent months. The…
Wiley Miller/Non SequiturDunno why this was cut out and sitting on my keyboard this morning. Gulp!
Joan Harman: Don't see your column in its usual place at the S-R any more. That is on the front page of the Northwest. Only when I go blogging am I likely to swing by for a visit. Best talk to Smith about at least…
In response to the Huckleberries Poll below today, Gary Ingram commented that at 4 this morning he was "wandering through the crowd looking for DaveO hoping he changed his mind and would be there, now that he is feeling so much more kindly towards Hagadone…
Good Morning America was in Coeur d’Alene Wednesday morning to kick off their holiday ‘Flip the Switch’ campaign. Approximately five million viewers around the country watched as national weather personality Sam Champion lit up the Coeur d’Alene sky. Coeur d’Alene was selected for participation in…
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.
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