I'll be here tomorrow morning -- and then off to the annual retreat of The Spokesman-Review Editorial Board. Starting tomorrow, my run of vacation and four-day weeks'll be over for quite awhile. And we can get down to some serious blogging. Thanks for being patient.…
Issue: Gov. Otter's salary is $15,000 less than his chief of staff/Associated PressMore Info: Jeff Malmen, Otter's chief of staff and former top congressional aide, makes $120,000 annually. That's $15,000 more than Otter's $105,000 salary. The past two chief of staffs made just over $97,000.…
*Huckleberries hears that ... three prominent North Idaho men are in the running to replace John McHugh as the regional representative on the Idaho Transportation Board: Bonners Ferry Mayor Darrell Kerby, former state senator Dick Compton and former legislator Dean Haagenson.*For those Time Warner/KAYU sufferers…
*17-year-old girl rescue from ledge at Falls Park: Friend follows tracks after family argument/Taryn Brodwater, Spokesman Review -- If you're going to stomp off in the middle of the night in January in North Idaho, you should make sure you're wearing Sorrels. *Larkin foresees big…
Issue: Council approves money for PR firm/Mike Prager, Spokesman-ReviewMore Info: When Spokane Deputy Mayor Jack Lynch took a controversial sick leave last September, his boss, Mayor Dennis Hession, hired a public relations firm to help explain Lynch's absence to the public. On Tuesday, the Spokane…
Ducks were walking on a layer of ice on Hayden Lake on Tuesday. Due to recent icy weather Hayden Lake is now capped with ice. Many of the region's smaller lakes are ice-bound most years, but the big lakes haven't seen ice in nearly a…
Item: Sales of figure skating tickets may break record: Spokane on track to surpass L.A. numbers/Jim Camden, Spokesman-Review118,000 -- the number of tickets sold to various events for the State Farm U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Spokane18,000 -- Number of tickets sold in last week…
Full Coeur d'Alene Press story hereCalifornia bashers beware. They're still coming, in even greater numbers than in the past. As recently as last summer, the perception that the Golden State was the top source of growth in North Idaho's population was a fallacy, according to…
Political 'Toon: Noah Kroese
Video Vixen: Did anyone tune into Channel 13 for Post Falls council meet tonight? The mayor got a real dig in at KVNI for being a no show after promising to broadcast his state of the city address at the chamber breakfast this morning. He…
Gene Marano had The Spokesman-Review on his mind last week as he plowed through his 1st District Court cases. Or at least one of our reporters. Seems the local magistrate mixed up his "Taryns" of Athol. Teryn (with an "e") Ann Sizemore was in court…
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.
