The Maryland Democrat's bill would change the tax code, allowing newspapers to become 501(c)(3) nonprofits. Newspapers operating as nonprofits prompted a collective sad chuckle from newspaper employees. The way things have been going lately, many of us feel like we work for a business that…
In the "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished" Dept., Berry Picker Kibby reports a close encounter with a sixtysomething F-bomber in the parking lot of Super 1/Kathleen Avenue. As she was leaving the store, Kibby spotted an old brown Lab mix waddling in the parking lot…
<a href ="http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1529667/" >Despite a statement made re: workers dressed in drag, Ruthie Johnson was reappointed to the Human Rights Commission. Should she be on the commission?</a> <br/> <span style="font-size:9px;" mce_style="font-size:9px;" mce_style="font-size:9px;"> (<a href ="http://www.polldaddy.com"> surveys</a>)</span>
Truly: I don't really “observe” Good Friday but every year at this time I start watching more Jesus movies and I'm moved and then I question everything and get all confused over and over again and then I just try to be. ... Weird I…
Whatever it was that members of the Idaho House voted with Tuesday in approving an anti-wolf outburst masquerading as legislation, it sure wasn't their minds. Supporting Rep. Phil Hart's bill criminalizing the importation of "dangerous or vicious" animals as well as the delivery of false…
Item: Human rights leader defends gay remarks/Maureen Dolan, CdA PressMore Info: Ruthie Johnson says she isn't anti-gay, and she doesn't think it's right for employers to discriminate against workers based on sexual orientation. The 85-year-old Hayden Lake resident's reappointment to the Idaho Commission on Human…
OK, I'm going to catch it for this. But I needed a photo to illustrate that Coeur d'Alene Press business story about former-SR buddy Taryn Hecker's new photo studio in Spirit Lake. And I found this 1994 archive photo of her as a JV cheerleader…
An unidentified actor dressed as Jesus Christ walks with a cross as he re-enacts the crucifixion after visiting the stations of the cross while Israeli border policemen stand guard near the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, traditionally believed to be the site of the crucifixion…
In the HBO Poll Friday, 53 of 73 (73%) said the preferred capitalism to socialism. Which means Merry Hucksters are stronger supporters of capitalism than Americans in general. In a Rasmussen Poll, only 53% of Americans said capitalism was a better system. At HBO, 16…
Me: Both of (my parents) are gone now and I'm not 50 yet. sigh… Many of you know my Mom went in October. My Mom wanted to be cremated and put in the ocean if possible. In May, my Sister, Husband and Son and I…
MamaJD: I know Ruthie (Johnson) and she has always been warm, sincere and politically conservative. She has served our State well in her many positions she has held dating all the way back to Sen. McClure and before. I sure would hate it if my…
Fishwife: Minnick's comments (re: AIG) is simplistic pandering. This, by a person who accepted $6900 in campaign contributions from Bank of America lobbyists. Not a whimper from Mr. Minnick when Bank of America executives got bonuses after they got THEIR bailout. The simple fact is…
JeanieS: One year we had a terrific thunder and lightning storm right at 5:00. I got on the elevator on the 14th floor where there were already two people. It seemed like we stopped at every floor and picked up another person, when all of…
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.
