Matt Cilley/APWalt Minnick, shown fly fishing in More's Creek near Boise in July, is casting himself as a conservative against first-term Rep. Bill Sali, R-Idaho, in Idaho's 1st Congressional District covering western and northern Idaho. Minnick, raised on a wheat farm in Walla Walla, Wash.,…
The city of Boise says the message just isn't getting across. Too many dog owners continue breaking leash and littering laws. Now city leaders are taking the tough approach - making owners pay up if they're caught. "Any of the dogs that are off the…
Thirty-seven young women from all over the state were OnLocation in Coeur d'Alene this past week for the Idaho Junior Miss Program. They displayed some extraordinary performing arts skills from piano to cello to ballet to classical vocals. These high school seniors are solidly among…
In Capt. Ben Wolfinger's felony warrant honor roll this week, the featured future defendants are (from left): Stephen Andrew Edgeman, 20, Coeur d'Alene, who's wanted for failure to appear on grand theft and forgery counts (no bond); Gregory James Herbert, 30, Hayden, probation violation for…
RE: Mary Souza column in CDA Press"Moderator: Our online community is a reflection of all of us. Ridiculing and humiliating groups of people or individuals is not constructive. Postive participation creates the environment we want to encourage which includes your feedback. The comment was not…
Idaho Escapee/Atmospheric RuminationsLooks like Idaho Escapee has been photoshopping again. Here, you see his impression of the Sarahcuda.*Watering the empty places/North Idaho Skinny*Priest Lake inspires Allen James Teague/As The Lake Churns*High standards/A Family Runs Through It*McCain, Palin deserve each other, but do we deserve them?/Dogwalk…
The five-step program emphasizes students' responsibility for their own behavior. If they disrupt class, they're making a "choice" to move to Step 1 of the program. That means they sit facing away from the class for a few minutes. If they continue acting out, they…
Sara Anderson/F-Words: I've resisted the temptation to bleg, because I know exactly how much traffic I get here, but hey, I need advice. My hair is currently two and a half inches long everywhere, and it's wavy if not curly. I have no idea what…
Palin kicked it up a notch yesterday with this nonsense: “Our opponent is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who target their own country.” To put it in a vernacular Palin might understand, that dog won’t hunt. (One presumes…
PRNewsFoto/NewsweekIn the Oct. issue of Newsweek (on newsstands today): "She's One of the Folks (And that's the problem)." Editor Jon Meacham writes an essay about how Sarah Palin's populist view of high office is risky for the country. Plus: the problems the next president will…
Christof Stache/AP PhotoWaitresses dance and celebrate the end of the beer festival Oktoberfest 2008 in Munich, southern Germany, on Sunday evening. Thousands of peoples visited the world largest beer festival Oktoberfest in Munich during the last two weeks. You write the cutline.Top Cutlines1. The UofI…
They pulled out the old railroad tracks, laid down some asphalt and suddenly the area came to life. The new Prairie Trail is full of activity. Old folks walking, young couples pushing strollers, bicycles of all sizes, shapes and configurations, in-line skaters, and of course,…
Poll: 3 in 5 voters: Boot every congressman: 59 percent say they'd kick out all members of House, Senate/WorldNetDailyMore Info: If given the choice, a new poll reveals, 59 percent of Americans would sweep Capitol Hill clean of the current batch of senators and representatives…
Countdown: There's exactly 30 days until the election and I can't believe how little action there's been on Countdown: the county races and local legislative races. I can't remember a time when there were two commissioner races that had both Rs and Ds on the…
The main thread @ Huckleberries Online had a number of very good comments Saturday. You'll find a sampling of them below to entertain you while I'm kicked back, continuing my recuperation from another bruising but fulfilling week at HBO Central. Of course, I always encourage…
Don Emmert/AP, PoolRepublican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, stands at the lectern during her vice presidential debate Thursday in St. Louis, Mo.Yes, for some people, Palin's constant smile, her winks, her head bobs, her dropped "G's" at the end of words -- thinkin',…
Dan of the County: With a McDonalds and the new Taco Bell and now Les Schwab, we Rathdrum areas folks now have an almost self-contained existence. All we need to be completely at peace is to get the hardware store back on line (after the…
Indy: I hope the paper could refocus itself on local and regional news. I'd wager that the weekly supplements, handle extra, south side, etc. are probably doing pretty well from a advertising standpoint. When I was a practicing journalist, I resisited the notion that this…
Poolman: ... this was my first daddy weekend with the boy while mommy gets some much needed fun and relaxation with old friends. Still have one more day to go, but feel like I’m coasting now. My arms and back are sore, my eyes are…
I'm sitting here early Saturday morning posting my usual early Saturday morning posts and listening to the latest Trailer Park Girls CD: "Cosmis Fleck of Rust." I can't believe I've been listening to buddy Doug Clark sing for more than 30 years. His latest features…
How do you intend to vote?/Idaho Statesman*Absentee*At poll*Won't vote
Joseph Millette: Our so-called representative just stabbed every American citizen in the back. Everyone should request a voting record listing to be posted in their local newspapers. And they should take them to the polls and vote against everyone who voted yes on this atrocity…
DFO and I have an interesting relationship here -- I make him laugh because I'm one of the funniest writers he's ever read, particularly for an amateur hack -- and he lets me eat wingnuts but, and here's the rub, I sometimes growl and snap…
You missed some great theater if you failed to attend the latest in a series of community forums about the proposed education corridor. Huckleberries Online didn't – thanks to local Demo chief Thom George, who provided the blog with real-time, blow-by-blow commentary from the Midtown…
Michel Euler/APA model wears a short dress with a portrait of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill, a creation by French designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac during his spring-summer 2009 ready-to-wear collection presented in Paris on Friday.
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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