Issue: With Vista, Microsoft overhauls look and feel of Windows/Todd Bishop, Seattle PITo hear Jenny Lam talk about her line of work, a casual listener might think for a moment that she designs luxury automobiles, or maybe high-end furniture. "We've reduced it down to its…
*Looks as though Blogmeister Joe has posted that new photo that Kathy Plonka snapped of me last week. Now, if Joe could do something to remove a few years ......*Huckleberries hears from a realiable source that former commish Gus Johnson failed to land that county…
From Police Scanner:4:33 p.m., Granati reports: "We left cd'a at about 3:45 this afternoon and it took us almost 45 minutes just to get home in pf. very slick and slow going."3:58 p.m., passenger car rear-ended school bus, with car ending up in ditch. (Dunno…
Full column hereLet's take 'global warming' as a prime example of 'junk science.' Thousands of scientists and activists alike have 'jumped on the bandwagon' in the past few years. It's THE THING, the trendy 'fad,' a 'wave of ecological enthusiasm,' to support this latest climatological…
Heath Frisby, from Caldwell, Idaho, kicks off to the side of his snowmobile as he performs a full back flip at the 11th Winter X Games at Buttermilk Ski Area near Aspen, Colo. on Sunday. (AP Photo/Nathan Bilow) Hard 7: Idaho GOP's welching Jayson Ronk…
*Hand in hand: City, skate event partnership ends in a glorious whirl/Jeff Bunch, Spokesman-Review -- Key paragraph: "Spokane is now the only city simultaneously to hold the ticket sales record for Skate America and nationals (154,893 tickets sold)." I know you Coeur d'Alene Firsters hate…
Barbaro is held by jockey Edgar Prado and a track worker after injuring his leg at the start of the 131st running of the Preakness Stakes, in this May 20, 2006, file photo, at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. Barbaro was euthanized earlier today after…
Miss Manners response hereHow exactly does one respond politely to a couple (usually the wife) who earnestly inform you that they're trying to start a family? Normally, I assume that intimate activities should not be featured as a topic of conversation in party settings, particularly…
Issue: Hess' new job sure to make news: European-American activist joins NIC Sentinel staff/D.F. Oliveria, Spokesman-ReviewMore Info: (NIC Sentinel) Managing Editor Alison Atwell and News Editor Holly Bowen shouldn't be intimidated by (European-American activist Stan) Hess's age or philosophy. When asked for advice to give…
Full story here, video here, (short version) and here (longer version, recommended)A Post Falls man filed a half-million-dollar lawsuit against the Post Falls Police Department this week for injuries he sustained during a January 2005 arrest. Bradley Platt, 37, (pictured) filed the police brutality suit…
OrangeTV is one of the many treasures who hang out at Huckleberries Online. He's the twentysomething who posts superb reviews of music, the Coeur d'Alene night scene and eateries on his Making Flippy Floppy blog. His local restaurant reviews are my personal faves. Of the…
Tonight, I finished reading "Wicked," the life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire. I enjoyed the Oz books as a kid. So, I wanted to see how a modern would handle the old story, especially with a clever play…
We have an issue to discuss, HBOers -- Blogfest 2007. I think I can get the boss to pop for cold cuts and pop. And our conference room can hold 20 to 25 people. I'd like to do something to coincide with the third anniversary…
I'd don't know whether you've noticed that I've been tweaking things a bit this week at HBO. Inside Huckleberries has become a regular feature. There's more of Betsy Russell's Eye On Boise. I've moved the "APhoto of the Day" cutline winners up at the end…
Full column here (courtesy of Jim Meehan/Idaho Vandals)The T-shirts, bearing a huge likeness of Dennis Erickson’s smiling face, cropped up all over town about a year ago. These days, some University of Idaho football players have found creative uses for the shirts. The most popular…
*Pecky Cox/As The Lake Churns sends along a poignant YouTube video, "Children See, Children Do," here....*Jerry Jaeger's secretary just called with details of the memorial service for shoeshiner Kenny Young. The memorial is Wednesday (Jan. 31) at 11 a.m. in Bays 1 and 2 of…
Full post hereTwo days ago there was a story in The Coeur d'Alene Press (read it right here) about the first black fire fighter in the city. It was a story that sort of semi ignited the issue of racism in North Idaho. Well, actually,…
Molly Ivins speaks at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, Nov. 15, 2006. Ivins, a liberal Texas columnist, has been hospitalized in her ongoing battle with breast cancer, her assistant said earlier today. Ivins may be able to go home Monday, Betsy Moon said.…
Full UI Argonaut editorial hereIt’s hard not to be cynical this time of year. After all, this is when University of Idaho President Tim White and his peers stand in front of the Idaho Legislature’s joint finance committee and present their idealized budget requests, which…
Cis: Last night my daughter and I had a discussion about Bush speech ... one small part ... and I haven't see it mention anywhere. So did I dream it? That is the taxing of the employee's insurance. If I understood it right, what ever…
Issue: Ban on global-warming film sparks heated debate: School board opts for 'balance' of viewpoints/Blaine Harden, Associated PressMore Info: The e-mail also pressured the school board to impose a ban on screenings of the film for the district's 22,500 students. The ban, which the school…
Political Cartoon/Noah Kroese
Every year the McCall Winter Carnival has the Beard, Hairy and Sexy Leg Contest. Starting in November, contestants can’t shave their beards (men) or their legs (women). Would you participate? -- Idaho Statesman. *Yes*NoDFO: How about a best white mustache contest?
Remember the fun we had with the pronunciation of Kootenai (Koot-NEE) County? Well, Art Anderson/Mullan asks whaddabout us over here in Shoshone County? How can anyone mispronounce Shoshone? "I think we can all agree it's Sho-shone," Art e-mails, "but I have heard people who should…
Coming Tomorrow in the SR: Idaho has set its price to shoot a wolf: $26.50. That's how much the Fish and Game Commission decided a resident wolf tag should cost once wolves are off the endangered species list and can be hunted in the state.…
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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