We're finally into the first official month of summer (although I'm not sure that we've experienced spring yet). Things tend to slow down here when school lets out. Part of the reason, of course, is that most tend to be outside enjoying themselves when the…
I was at a budget meeting recently and someone joked about how the finance guy could cut a quarter into 26 pieces. It reminded me of fishing for silvers with Grandpa on Lake Pend Oreille back when limits were high and you’d always catch yours.…
Matt Sayles/AP PhotoMegan Fox, left, and Rainn Wilson pose together backstage at the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday in Los Angeles. The presented the award for best kiss. You write the cutline.Top Cutlines:1. Roses are red,/My testes are blue,/Instead of a kiss,/She said toodle-oo --…
Fire ripped through a mobile home in Post Falls Monday afternoon, destroying part of the ceiling, living room and all of the porch. A fire destroyed the porch of this mobile home in Post Falls, ID Monday afternoon. Just after 1 p.m., one of the…
An eastern Idaho couple is offering a cool $50,000 reward for the return of their toy poodle. The 9-month-old poodle named Spanky disappeared from Dan and Donna Loucks' home in Rigby on May 21. Now, the couple says the diminutive dog's twin brother, Trouble, is…
High gas prices are the target of a two-mile demonstration march planned for Saturday in the Lewiston. Gary Church, one of the organizers of the event, says the event is to put pressure on the government to start doing things to lower gas prices. Organizers…
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy underwent what his doctors called successful surgery Monday to treat his cancerous brain tumor, and told his wife shortly after that he felt "like a million bucks," a family spokeswoman said. More here.
Matt York/AP PhotoUnited States Mint Director Ed Moy announces the Arizona quarter, the 48th quarter of the 50 State Quarters Program Monday at the State Capitol in Phoenix. Question: Which state quarter do you like best?
Kathy Sims, the former Repub senator who is in hot water re: questionable campaign finance reports, now sez she acted on her own in circulating a Concerned Taxpayers mailing just prior to the 2007 Coeur d'Alene city elections. Sidekick Tom Macy had nothing to do…
You may have heard Clinton campaigners talk over the weekend about the idea that Clinton leads in the popular vote and that more people have voted for her than any other presidential candidate in primary history. It isn't true. Senator Clinton certainly attracted a lot…
Julie Jacobson/AP PhotoIn a 2005 file photo, Bo Diddley performs during the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in New York. A spokeswoman says Diddley died of heart failure today in Florida. He was 79.
Item: Idaho takes hat off to icon J.R. Simplot: Crowd at Qwest remembers the maverick, the gambler, the potato magnate/IStatesmanMore Info: Simplot died on May 25 at 99. Two weeks earlier, he had celebrated the birth of his first great-great-grandchild. Son Don Simplot said his…
With gas prices hovering at $4 a gallon, motorists are putting less fuel in their tanks. What are you doing each time you fill up at the gas pump?/Idaho Statesman. *Fill up all the way*Fill above half*Fill up half a tank*Fill below half*Not driving
With gasoline prices near $4 a gallon and expected to rise even higher this summer, I'm surprised to see so many people still driving their gas-guzzling recreational vehicles and campers headed for summer vacations. Nobody I know can afford that kind of gas. These people…
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.
