CDAMom: Today is my daughters 21st birthday. She is all excited about this being her first day to legally drink. I on the other hand am thinking how quick it all goes by and wondering if I taught her enough, showed her enough examples of…
Nordic skiers strut their stuff in "Ultimate Skiing Showdown," one of the films featured at the 2009 Banff Mountain Film Festival. (Photo from Ultimate Skiing Showdown)
At OpenCDA.com, Kage Mann tries to encourage kindred spirits who didn't get the change for which they voted. And he predicts offers 5 reasons why change will take place on the City Council in another 2 years:The city will have to raise our property taxes…
First, I should apologize to the many bloggers in the HBO Blogosphere for not highlighting them as I usually do in my daily roundups. I've been so slammed by the election, election results, and election follow-up that I didn't have time to do adequate roundups.…
Olympic gold medalist Kristin Armstrong is followed by Horseshoe Bend students while leaving after a school assembly in Horsheshoe Bend last week. Armstrong is ending her pro cycling career after a second world championship in September and 2008 Olympic time-trial triumph in Beijing. (AP Photo/Jessie…
Participants compete in the 27th Annual Great American Bug Race Wednesday at Palm Beach Atlantic University. The event is part of PBAU's Homecoming Week festivities and raises money for the University’s Science Club. Roaches were sold for 50 cents each, or entrants could bring their…
6:10 p.m. Male in an older, bright-green, 1960s pickup may be tampering w/ATM machine @ Wells Fargo Bank/Ironwood.5:17 p.m. A male in a red ballcap is waving knives around in the parking lot of Albertson's/Ironwood Drive.4:41 p.m. Sun Rental/Government Way clerk reports a customer is…
Actually, I'm hearing all kinds of misinformation about the recount and related issues. We've had different people who wanted us to check to make sure everyone had been required to show their ID before voting. I know that is the law in some state, but…
This year, my baby... my 39 year old baby, tells me she has bought a motorcycle.(Deep breath) ... hoping she takes her classes she talks about, after her son graduation. Yes, it is ... (ok ... another deep breath). I saw the bike, seems small…
Army Lt. Gen. Robert Cone gives a news conference after a shooting in Fort Hood, Texas today. The U.S. Army says 12 people have been killed and 31 wounded in a shooting rampage on the Fort Hood Army base in Texas today. Breaking story here.…
We get into arguments about Pixar all the time around the office. Why? When your average film garners approval from 95 percent of the critics there's plenty of room for disagreement. It becomes a bit like choosing your favorite spice. Can you really find the…
"What has become of my generation? Guys treating ladies like trash, girls showing themselves off like trophies to be won. It makes me sick to my stomach. I take one class at a public high school. Walking down the halls on any given day, I'm…
Chocolate flies as Kelcy Mastrup dives onto a slip-n-slide covered with chocolate pudding, ice cream, noodles and water during Warner Alliance Church's junior high kids outreach event Wednesday in Lewiston. (AP Photo/Lewiston Tribune, Kyle Mills)Cartoon: Despoiler of the planet?/David Horsey, Seattle P-IStudent who kicked $10K…
Twelve years ago, Kari Kelli lay curled up on the floor of a room at Anna Ogden Hall. She hadn’t eaten solid food in months and weighed 100 pounds. She’d lost her children, her car and her job. She’d walked away from it all for…
In yet another newsletter, Mary Souza attacks the successful incumbents -- again -- including top vote-getter Woody McEvers, whom she hints doesn't have a spine. Noting that Woody won by an "incredibly close margin of 361 votes, she applauds challenger Steve Adams for doing an…
11:52 a.m. Vicky has questions re: problems she has w/a neighbor.11:27 a.m. A man @ Benoit & Lacey/Hayden called 911, looking for a roommate.11:21 a.m. A 60YO male has spilled hot tar on different parts of himself @ Phillips 76 station on Huntington Court, across…
... whether Dan Gookin and Jim Brannon would have won there races if they'd weighed in on the Huckleberries Online comments threads to defend their stands and cause? Or would it have provided more fodder for opponents to beat them up with? Would it have…
To the voters who voted for my opponent, thank you, too for participating in the process. I have been and will continue to be, a representative of every citizen of Coeur d’Alene regardless of how they voted. It was a close election, which means there…
People attending the dedication applaud the unveiling of the statue of the late Fred Rogers of the PBS television program "Mr. Rogers Neighborhood" in Pittsburgh, Thursday. The statue by renowned sculptor Robert Berks depicts the children's television pioneer changing his shoes as he had done…
I remember feeling as though I was in a powder keg, just waiting for the right spark to set it off… the women's side was SO overcrowded (so, exponentially, the men's had to be twice as bad) that every bunk was full, none of the…
Victoria Velyk of Henrietta, looks at media as the Big Wheel was announced as one of the toys inducted in the National Toy Hall of Fame at Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, N.Y., today. (AP Photo/Democrat & Chronicle,Tina Yee ) Question: Which other…
I'm going to hate myself in the morning for saying this. But Dan Gookin should continue to be involved in local activism and politics. Sure, it'll take awhile to recover from the bruising campaign that ended Tuesday night with a 29-vote loss to Councilwoman Deanna…
Item: Detractors line up against state’s Spokane River plan: Draft seeks to reduce phosphorus levels by 90 percent in the next decade/Shawn Vestal, SRMore Info: The latest plan to limit algae-producing phosphorus in the Spokane River is drawing critics from all directions as Washington officials…
On his campaign blog, Dan Gookin, who gave Councilwoman Deanna Goodlander a run for her money Tuesday, thanked his supporters for their work on his behalf and asked them to return his signs. Then, he left the possibility of a third bid for council open…
There is a man passing through the Inland Northwest right now who can tell you for a fact you are moving too fast. He’s traveled 7,000 miles in a covered wagon with a team of horses during the past three years, relying on the kindnesses…
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.