On Wednesday, I published part of a blog post by Tara Roberts/Moscow-Pullman Daily News re: the mixed emotions she has for receiving welfare. The post attracted 23 comments, including one from Tara, who appreciates your input. Tara: "You guys are a lot — and I…
Visitors to the temporary Flight 93 memorial participate in a sunset ceremony of opening a large commemorative flag Thursday in Shanksville, Pa. United Flight 93 crashed in Shanksville, Pa, Sept. 11, 2001, after passengers and crew diverted the hijacked airplane from its intended target Washington,…
Item: East Valley players overcoming ACL injuries/Mike Vlahovich, SRMore Info: Women’s sport and the dreaded acronym ACL tend to go hand in hand. Scarcely a year goes by, it seems, when another female star is felled by a torn anterior cruciate ligament in her knee.…
Let's visit Sunday's marvelous rainbow one more time before bidding it goodbye. Here's what it looked like at Priest Lake, as photographed by Pecky Cox/As The Lake Churns.Judge shields names of anti-anything-but-marriage signers/SRJudge Bradbury will comply w/order to move/Eye On BoiseFallen Heroes Memorial Plaza dedication…
A Los Angeles fireman looks under a fire truck stuck in a sinkhole in the Valley Village neighborhood of Los Angeles Tuesday. Four firefighters escaped injury early Tuesday after their fire engine sunk into a large hole caused by a burst water main in the…
6 p.m. Male drinking a beer pulled into Ramsey Park softball complex, after almost rear-ending another vehicle.5:58 p.m. An occupied Skidoo Challenger boat is sinking off Arrow Point.5:50 p.m. An aggressive pitbull is running loose @ 7th & Shadow Wood Lane/CdA.5:16 p.m. A truck has…
"What if they had a protest and no one came? The Kootenai County Reagan Republicans saw on the Obama Organizing for America site that the pro-Obamacare folks were holding a protest on Highway 95 and Appleway today at 4 p.m. We showed up with our…
If we want reform, there are four things we must do: 1.) Start over. The reform bills being considered by Congress must be scrapped due to their vagueness and lack of understandability; 2.) Go slow. Health care reform is complex and affects every American. We…
Yikes! The Council Meeting tonight was pretty hairy. I left after being told by the Mayor in front of the people who came to the meeting that she's afraid to come to my house because of all the lies I tell on this website. I'll…
At JeanC's Cat House and Shooting Gallery, JeanC posts: "Not sure what it is, but this guy was hanging out while I was painting, so chased him around until I could snap a pic." Anyone know what it is?Obama foreign policy: Where's the substance?/Dogwalk MusingsHauser…
In this Sept. 1 photo, centenarian Dixie Monkhouse casts her fly on the waters of the McKenzie River in Eugene, Ore. with fishing guide Don Wouda, with whom she fishes once a month. Monkhouse, the first female member of the Flyfisher's Club of Oregon, turned…
Designer board games, sometimes referred to as German style board games, have gained popularity across the United Sates and on the Palouse over the last several years, and some local retailers are having trouble keeping the games in stock. The games are identified by their…
The Federal Election Commission has dismissed a complaint made against Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, by the Idaho Democratic Party raising questions about violations of federal election law during the 2008 campaign. Last September, as Risch faced former Democratic Rep. Larry LaRocco, Democrats questioned whether Risch's…
North Idaho prep sports scribe Greg Lee and Spokane counterpart Mike Vlahovich provide their picks to win high school football games this week.
Joker: The whole fraternity/sorority scene wasn't my thing. I guess I don't believe in buying my friends. Question (for those who belonged to a fraternity or sorority during college): Did you experience any long-lasting value from being involved in a college fraternity or sorority?
A funny thing happened to SR editorial assistant Rainey Coffin en route to the county courthouse to collect court records last Thursday. She almost got arrested. First, Rainey, who subs for "Idaho Records" regular Sherry Adkins during vacations, had trouble finding a parking spot. So…
Spc. Jeffrey Hodge mourns the loss of four soldiers from his unit, Capt. John Hallett, Capt. Cory Jenkins, Sgt. 1st Class Ronald Sawyer and Spc. Dennis Williams, following their memorial service at Soldiers Field House, at Fort Lewis, Wash., Wednesday. The four soldiers were members…
The sundry items dangling from rear-view mirrors on North Idaho College student cars parked along Rosenberry Drive this morning caught the attention of a Berry Picker walking her dog. Air fresheners were the top item dangling from the mirrors, with Christmas-tree shaped ones outnumbering leaves.…
A 19-year-old woman fell from the third story of a University of Idaho fraternity early today, the second such fall in less than two weeks. Amanda Andaverde was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle from Kootenai Medical Center “due to the severity of her…
11:38 a.m. A barbecue has set off the third-floor alarm @ St. Dominic's Girls School, Riverview & Goldfinch/Post Falls. School officials don't want firefighters to respond w/alarms on b/c there's a mass going on.11:26 a.m. A man is lying in the turnabout @ Victorian &…
I don't know about you, but I'm not interested in having a Socratic dialogue with strangers about my family's spiritual beliefs, be they atheist or Zoroastrian. Ain't nobody's business but my own. Seen through the generous lens of my bi-focals, the ice cream girls were…
Item: Nampa officers will take blood draws from DUI suspects w/o consent/Idaho Press-TribuneMore Info: Nampa police are being trained so they can take blood draws in the field to determine whether drivers are under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Sgt. Matthew Pavelek said in…
President Barack Obama kisses Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton after speaking to a joint session of Congress on healthcare at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Jason Reed, pool)Question: What do you make of the body language in this presidential kiss?
In a rare moment of unity in the bitter American healthcare debate, both sides of the political spectrum have turned on a Republican congressman after his extraordinary heckle of President Obama during a keynote speech last night. Joe Wilson, of South Carolina, breached Washington etiquette…
CindyH: Am I the only one who makes up stories about people and their purchases while waiting in long grocery lines? Last week this older gentleman in front of me at Fred Meyer, had a cart full of baby items. Diapers, blankets, tiny socks. A…
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.
