Item: Levy under fire: Community members question where funds from 2002 levy went/Maureen Dolan, Coeur d'Alene pressMore Info: More than 80 people came out Tuesday to Lakes Middle School to hear Coeur d'Alene School District officials discuss a $31.1 million school plant facilities levy voters…
You have to be born here to be a native (or be born to two native parents who were temporarily out of state but moved back), but if you grew up here and went to school here, then clearly you have the culture, understanding, and…
1. A squirrel enters the roadway do you:a. Apply your brakes rapidly but safely while scanning your rear view mirror for vehicles behind you?b. Hit the Jake Brake on your Peterbuilt and scare the living bejeezus out of it?c. Accelerate - Dinner!2. Two Subaru Brats…
I listened to you guys who advised that I should find a legit barber rather than the fast-clip joint that I was going to. As a result, I could a nice, personalized haircut from Robin (Headliners in Hayden) that included a neck shave with a…
Item: Rep. Sali asks Condoleeza Rice to delay Mexican consulate in Boise/Idaho StatesmanMore Info: Rep. Bill Sali has asked Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice to delay a Mexican consulate in Boise until the government promises the facility won’t “foster the continued presence of illegal aliens…
The Idaho Transportation Department has finished installing automated touch-screen driver license testing systems in every county, and now they’re operational. The idea is that people can take their tests quickly, scoring and record-keeping are automated, and there’s less opportunity for cheating or distribution of the…
The Federal Election Commission has a little-known rule, known as the “millionaire’s provision,” that says if a wealthy candidate for the U.S. Senate contributes more than a certain amount to his or her own campaign, opponents then are subject to much higher limits for individual…
APhoto cutline winners for TuesdayVictor Calzada/El Paso Times, APCanutillo Elementary School student Isabel Alvarez, center right, let out a yawn as she and her classmates participated in a Chi Gong session with teacher Carlos Aceves in preparation for their math Texas Assessment of Knowledge and…
I'm a New Yorker, my wife is a Hoosier and our children are Idahoans, though not born here. I have lived in Kootenai County, Idaho, longer than anywhere else with the exception of New York City. I plan on spending the rest of my life…
RE: I'll take a Californian over an EasternerI love it when people turn states into sovereign nations. This is America the united states of, in which any of us can live in any part of it we want. That's the beauty of it all and…
Journalists have morphed themselves into being "know it all difference makers". Instead of reporting what is happening, today’s journalists have been taught that they should "change" the world. They started to report about themselves rather than what is happening. Notice all the shows on Sunday…
RE: Otter Watching Idaho agencies' contact with mediaNot only is this paranoia of the highest order, it's harmful to the public good. Government agenices are not always on the same page, which is natural and healthy, if the conflict is honest and open. To line…
RE: Potlatch sends mixed message on toxic emissionsIn the past the emmissions from the pulp mill were so toxic that it actually affected the paint on homes. "Smell the pulp mill? Sure - its the smell of money" was the popular local response. But as…
A camp counselor and Tumwater teacher, wanted by Idaho authorities for five counts of lewd conduct with a minor, has turned himself in to investigators and currently resides in the Latah County Jail. Timothy Andrew Kellis, 38, surrendered Monday to the Idaho State Police. The…
Susan D. shares an interesting read from Jim Fisher published in the Lewiston Tribune. Here's an excerpt of this editorial: Potlatch sends mixed message on toxic outputSurely Idaho has not rejected new coal-fired power plants to block their airborne mercury emissions in order to permit…
Item: Obama Calls Wright's Remarks `Ridiculous,' Offensive/BloombergMore Info: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama denounced “ridiculous” statements made by the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, using his strongest language to date to distance himself from his former pastor. Obama cited Wright's contentions, repeated yesterday, that the government may…
APhoto of the Day cutline winners for MondayMike Derer/AP PhotoFirst lady Laura Bush and Jenna Bush react to a child at a book signing for a children's book they co-authored, "Read All About It!," at a book store in Glen Rock, N.J., recently. You write…
Franziska Edwards/PETE, AP PhotoIn this April 2008 photo provided Monday by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, a pigeon with a needle-like dart piercing its head is shown in Seattle. PETA is offering a $2,000 reward for information about the recent shootings that have…
RE: Defiling ChardonnayGreat going Sam. DFO steps away for one minute and see what you do? As if journalists don't have a bad enough reputation as elitist, pandering snobs who would rather comb hummus out of Osama bin Laden's beard before standing in a grocery…
Related: 12 groups sue feds over wolf delistmentIf anyone checks the news out of Montana they will find our friends from Defenders of Wildlife have sued the Feds over turning over wolf mgmt to the States. A prediction that came true from the website saveourelk.com.…
RE: Pastor Wright's rebuttals fuel trouble for Obama/Boston GlobeWhen half-wits like Hannity and Limbaugh played the continuous loops of Wright's comments I don't blame him for wanting to defend himself - especially being as neither of the two appear to be half the man that…
Jerome A. Pollos/Coeur d'Alene Press, APDave Caverly removes a studded tire from a car Monday at Best Tire and Auto in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Motorist have until Thursday to remove their studded tires in order to avoid a $52 fine.Question: Did you put studded tires…
AMSTETTEN, Austria (AP) — A man has confessed to imprisoning his daughter for 24 years in a windowless cell with a soundproofed door and fathering seven children with her including three who "never saw sunlight," police said Monday. Josef Fritzl, now 73, also told investigators…
Item: AP Poll: Clinton leads McCain, doing better than Obama/Associated PressMore Info: Hillary Rodham Clinton now leads John McCain by 9 points in a head-to-head presidential matchup, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll that bolsters her argument that she is more electable than Democratic rival…
If you see burnt stuff in a fire ring at your next campsite that looks like long, grey, ashy jumbles of burnt rope, beware. The BLM is warning of a new phenomenon that’s cropped up several times in the Boise area in recent months and…
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.