Rep. Bob Nonini, R-Coeur d’Alene, didn’t win his race last night for leadership, challenging House Majority Caucus Chairman Ken Roberts, R-Donnelly, but Nonini said this morning, “I was glad I put my hat in the ring. I think our caucus deserved choices.” He said he…
The College of Idaho softball team used Wednesday's snow day to build snowmen on the College of Idaho softball field in Caldwell, Idaho at every infield position including the batter. The team found old softball uniforms to put on the snowball players. The project took…
"Times are hard for bikini baristas," writes Jordy Byrd & Carrie Scozzaro of the Inlander. "Times are hard for bikini baristas. Besides the cold, which has really begun to bear down on those who bare nearly all, Spokane’s television news outlets have recently been drawing…
A Facebook Friend announced last night that she'd watched the "Folk Rewind" show on PBS last night (as did I), featuring host John Sebastian discussing a number of folk-singing acts, some in black-and-white, from days gone by. These included Pete Seeger, The Chad Mitchell Trio,…
Kendramama: Fellow bloggers/ thinker/ masters of the satiric written word, I would like to give you a glimpse into the life of a wife and mother, one who has overcome SO much yet in now sunk in a morass of myriad mid-holiday muck. I am…
"I say this as a former executive director of the state Democratic Party. There is no Democratic Party in Idaho. A party is infrastructure. A party is operation and fundraising. There is simply no party" -- John Foster, former campaign aide to Congressman Walt Minnick,…
House Speaker Lawerence Denney says he’s appointed an ethics committee to look into a complaint filed by Rep. Eric Anderson, R-Priest Lake, about the conduct of Rep. Phil Hart, R-Athol, including Hart’s 1996 theft of timber from school endowment land for use in building his…
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.