*The story about Fred Lambert's Light Show Extravaganza on West Hayden Avenue will be the centerpiece for the Post Falls Voice Thursday morning.*Those of you in western Kootenai County will see the return of the full-length Huckleberries print column in the Voice, too. A second…
After a day without my regular computer, bouncing back and forth between a backup and my Mac Book, while writing a print column for Thursday, things are finally getting back to normal at Huckleberries Online. The computer repair and our annual noon Christmas lunch knocked…
*Imagine life without SpongeBob*I love my graphing calculator more than my cell phone!*I did, like, a volleyball roll into the bathroom*(from teacher) We don't want the kids to know they get second chances*Sandpoint's whiter than a KKK conference*The good girls have boyfriends, so I just…
Mary Altaffer/AP PhotoNorth Korea's U.N. Ambassador Pak Gil Yon speaks to reporters during a news conference at Avery Fisher Hall Tuesday in New York. Pak discussed plans for the New York Philharmonic to perform in Pyongyang in February 2008. You write the cutline.Top Cutlines1. North…
From the minutes of the Nov. 21 meeting of the Lake City Development Corp:Bob Paulos Visit "(Executive Director) Berns shared that he and LCDC Commissioner Reid visited Mr. Paulos the morning of the Board meeting (November 21st ) to discuss the LCDC issues raised in…
Jim Risch is running to replace Larry Craig in the U.S. Senate, but he probably isn't welcoming comparisons of him to the disgraced Craig. It is therefore strange to see Lt. Gov. Risch mail a fundraising letter that could have come straight out of one…
... that City Attorney Mike Gridley and his teen daughter, Kathryn, will be traveling to Vietnam this week, to bike from Saigon to Hanoi. The trip will last from Thursday until Jan. 4. Nah, Mike didn't serve in Vietnam. He graduated from high school in…
Pamphleteers Kathy Sims and Tom Macy (pictured) shouldn't breathe easier re: the threat by the city of Coeur d'Alene to pursue legal remedies against them. Remember? The pair reportedly failed to submit the proper paperwork, pre- and post-election, for a last-minute flier in the city…
Joan Harman: Huckleberries, bring it back. Don't even read the others.DFO: Joan, thanks for the kind thought. Huckleberries will return as full-length, 18-inch columns this week. I'll write different Huckleberries column for the Post Falls Voice Thursday and the Handle Extra Saturday. Much of the…
I took a call this morning from a loyal reader quite upset that we put Al Gore's Nobel prize ceremony inside the A section while giving Evel Knievel's funeral big display on the Northwest cover. She challenged our sense of priorities and pleaded that we…
Item: Boy's first buck more special because of rare coloring: Experts say the four-point buck may have had a genetic trait known as melanism that caused its fur and tongue to be black/Eric Barker, Lewiston Tribune.More Info: Van Tassel said family members had reported seeing…
I don’t know if you are aware of the big request Hagadone has for a rather extensive, perhaps massive enlargement, would be a better description of the dock permit requests for his Casco Bay property. He wants to move the existing dock and boat slips…
Item: Too much renewal, not enough blight: Legislative committee studies urban renewal agency reform/Lara Volkert, Idaho Business ReviewMore re: Kathy Sims: LCDC is growing fat on the tax increment from those wealthy districts, she said. It gets the entire taxable value of anything new built…
Item: Cd'A in top 20 safest small cities: Farmers Insurance Group survey rates weather, environment, employment/Sean Garmire, Coeur d'Alene PressMore Info: A survey funded by a major insurance group finds Coeur d'Alene is the 18th most secure small city in the U.S. According to the…
Anyway, I tend to agree, that Unions have little place in most jobs in Idaho. There are very few Idaho jobs left where the employer has disproportionate market power over employees. I tend to subscribe to the model that Union are only beneficial when the…
Mother of the Bride: Our daughter met our son-in-law in line waiting to go into a speed dating get together. They went through the process, exchanged phone numbers and he called her for a date two days later. Neither went out with anyone else they'd…
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.
