Residents in the Best Hill/Nettleton Gulch area can finally breathe a sigh of relief as their long-fought legal battle has finally come to a close. The Idaho Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that a recent amendment to the Nettleton Estates Protective Covenants, limiting the lot…
Taryn Hecker Photo/The Skinny on North IdahoSpotlight: Here comes winter.1. An Eastern Washington University student died Saturday after being dragged as many as four miles behind a pickup truck down a rural Pend Oreille County road by a teen who told police he thought he…
Another rally. Another tantalizingly close encounter with victory. And in the end Saturday, another difficult loss for the Idaho Vandals. Utah State played a turnover-free game as the Aggies held off the Vandals 24-19 in a Western Athletic Conference season-ending football game before a holiday-light…
Alex Brandon/AP PhotoSen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., speaks during a news conference in Pascagoula, Miss., Monday. Lott, the Senate's No. 2 Republican, announced Monday he will retire from the Senate before January, ending a 35-year career in Congress in which he rose to his party's top…
We've officially entered that time of year at Huckleberries Online when things stop. The campaigns and elections are over. The fallout from those elections is mostly over, too (read: Mary Souza got the boot from the P&Z commission. But we're still waiting to see what/if…
Kevin P. Casey/AP PhotoWashington States' Brandon Gibson, left, celebrates with quarterback Alex Brink after Brink threw a 41-yard touchdown during the first quarter in the annual Apple Cup college against Washington, in Seattle, on Saturday. WSU won 42-35. You write the cutline.
Item: Groups vie for Good Morning America time/Lucy Dukes, Coeur d'Alene PressMore Info: Other groups looking to be a part of the Good Morning America performance include the Red Hot Mamas, Coeur d'Alene Chamber of Commerce Commodores and Coeur d'Alene Charter Academy. Commodores parade chairwoman…
Last night, for a time, it was just me and my son in the room with Dad. He was having a bad night, I guess, as if there were such a thing as a good night these days. I was sitting at the bed mostly…
Item: WSU to make announcement about Doba today/Craig Smith, Seattle TimesMore Info: Washington State is expected to announce today whether it is hanging out the "help wanted" sign for a head football coach or sticking with Bill Doba. A third possibility is an announcement delaying…
I was a little bummed by the end of the WSU/Idaho game as well until I read more about it. Both schools agreed to end the annual game as it severely limited their non-conference choices with one game tied up with each other. Also, the…
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My father is dying. He has been desperately ill for years, dying by inches. Prostate cancer. Diabetes. Congestive heart failure. Kidney failure. So getting the call on Thanksgiving that I needed to get home "right now" was no surprise. Still I wasn't prepared for what…
Item: Officials 'mortified' over PTSD slogan: POST graduation program causes a stir/Betsy Z. Russell, Spokesman-ReviewMore Info: Idaho’s newest police officers are not being trained to inflict post-traumatic stress, the head of officer training for the state says, despite a slogan to that effect that was…
Item: City Council limits street sledding: Members cite safety concerns as main reason/Lucy Dukes, Coeur d'Alene PressMore Info: The decision eliminates sledding on Garden Avenue west of 11th Street and Fruitdale east of 15th. Sledding remains possible on Lost Avenue from Dollar to 14th Street,…
Another holiday season was officially ushered in this evening in Coeur d'Alene, with the annual winter parade and Coeur d'Alene Resort fireworks display and light show. As I mentioned in the comments section, the fireworks display and light show was as good as usual. But…
Item: Study indicates that women who push for gender equality often have strong partnerships and better romantic relationships/Judy Peres, Chicago TribuneMore Info: Take a feminist out to dinner. That's the advice of a social psychologist who concludes in a new study that feminists make better…
I too have read the archives. EVERY SINGLE ARCHIVE ON HBO about Mary. And it's obvious to me that DFO has been spearheading a vicious SMEAR campaign against the civically gentle and warm Mary Souza. Every SINGLE ONE of her columns in the Press were…
Digger: I don't do my shopping until next weekend and every subsequent weekend thereafter. I take one weekend and decide to shop for a partictular person or group of people. Never mind if I find something someone else may enjoy, they're not until later on…
Jim Bryant/AP PhotoWashington's Sarah Morton, center, goes for a loose ball against Idaho's Charlotte Otero, left, and Katie Schlotthauer, right, during the second half of a basketball game in the Husky Classic today in Seattle. Washington beat Idaho 73-57. Game story here.
I was shocked to find the parking lot of Kohl's at 3:45 am to be full. The line to enter the building extended from the north entrance to the south side of the parking lot, then turned west and went up the block. When I…
I’ll admit, it’s hard not to get emotional as the Duane and Mr. Jaeger appear on the risers and speak their feedbacky, nearly inaudible words to a hushed and reverent crowd. People peacefully light white candles, including those up in the Resort garage dripping painful…
Mile Kepka/San Francisco Chronicle, AP PhotosActivists Jess Walsh, left, and Doug Featherbeard pose naked for a photo shoot in a disputed grove of oak trees on the University Of California, Berkeley campus in this file photo in Berkeley, Calif. School officials have won the legal…
The law is not wrong, it is just not being followed. As I see it at least 3 violatons occured in the executive session as the vote taken after they came back into regular session was nothing more than a pre determined decision made behind…
From Taryn Brodwater's blog, The Skinny On North Idaho:It’s the first snow. We saw it coming yesterday when the chimney smoke disappeared into a sky the color of a dingy work shirt and the temperature hovered between pucker up and goose pimples. Just in time…
I'm off until Monday. But you still can find plenty of discussion fodder below this post. Of course, I wish you and your family a good day of eating, sleeping, and mebbe watching parades and sporting events. We're hosting the family that's stayed in town,…
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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