At Kootenai MPO, Staci Lehman reports: "It's January right? I ask because when I left work last night at 5:00 (so it was dark), I saw a woman in a convertible WITH THE TOP DOWN." Which beats the strangest sight that I've seen this January…
Nate Shepherd, 2, uses his finger to trace chiseled letters on the monument after a ceremony in Poteau, Okla., earlier today. Shepherd is grandson of former Poteau Mayor Don Barnes, who started the effort to place the Ten Commandments marker in the town. About 200…
For your reading pleasure, Huckleberries Online has added three new blog/news sites to the Idaho Blogroll: Idaho Freedom Foundation's Idaho Reporter, Nicole LeFavour's Notes from the Floor, and Idaho Conservative Blogger. Earlier this week, HBO added to the same list Idaho Politics, which brings you…
Staci Lehman/Kootenai MPO (re: Idaho drivers to get new licenses): The question is, if this ID is so great, can it also make you look good in your driver license photo? I had to wait 2 hours last time I went to the DMV so…
Muzamil Modaser listens to Air Force Col. Erik J. Nelson, right, read “Mudgy & Millie” in a military hospital in Afghanistan. Coeur d'Alene Today story here. (Courtesy photo)Inlander: Roping steers easier than budget for Otter/Kevin TaylorIdaho lawmakers want deeper cuts/Betsy Russell, SRWashington House committee rejects…
Ayla Brown, daughter of Massachusetts State Sen. Scott Brown, R-Wrentham, celebrates Brown's U.S. Senate special election victory for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy in Boston Tuesday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)Top Cutlines:1. The president of…
Spencer (on Eye On Boise re: Vaughn Ward announcement tour): Why on earth would he want Dirk to be seen supporting him? Did he want this kiss of neo-con death hung around his neck or was it forced on him? This is worse than showing…
6:02 p.m. 63YO woman in 1600 block of Elm hurt left knee & right ankle in basement fall.5:13 p.m. Dodge Calibre hit a deer in e/b lane of I-90 @ Sherman exit.5:02 p.m. Extremely drunk 47YO male is vomiting @ 11th & Sherman.4:59 p.m. A…
A Coeur d’Alene methamphetamine dealer was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison in U.S. District Court recently. Paul D. Hartman, 44, was given 188 months in prison and four years probation by Judge B. Lynn Winnill on Friday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced…
Charles Dixon: It was the independent voters who got Obama elected, and they didn't vote that way so Obama could do 90% of what he's tried to do this past year. They voted for hope and change and a better life, and in return they've…
Tareq Salahi and Michaele Salahi leave the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington today, after testifying before the House Homeland Security Committee. Story here. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)Question: What should be done with the White House gate crashers?
Nope, this isn't a post about food ... this is about you and I. And everyone else who has ever had a single elder parent and children that rely on you. Even if they don't think they do. Seems like the time your parents need…
Sasha Cohen falls as she skates during a practice at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Spokane today. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)Question: Anyone out there attend the figure skating championships? Was your event worth the price of admission?
1. Change my phone number and address2. Buy a house in MAUI. Another on a ranch sitting on some river in Montana and then another on a golf course somewhere3. Build that arena and ball park at Riverstone4. Re-build that ice rink in town5. Hang…
A long list of human rights leaders, including two former Idaho governors, three former directors of the Idaho Human Rights Commission, and more, have sent an “open letter” to the Idaho Legislature opposing Gov. Butch Otter’s proposal to phase out all state funding for the…
Katie Donnar, 18, shows her scar from where the melanoma was on the calf of her leg recently in Vincennes, Ind. in front of a tanning bed like the on she used at her home and at the tanning salons. Donnar was in the sixth…
Say it ain't so! Idaho Democrats are going the way of their Republican brethren when it comes to government secrecy. The minority Democrats, with just 18 House seats and seven in the Senate, made the decision to caucus behind closed doors to maximize their effectiveness.…
With due diligence, the Idaho Lottery lists the odds on every ticket it sells. Nobody reads them, of course. Like most humans, lotto ticket buyers think they’re exempt from probability and statistics. Notwithstanding, let’s look at your chances:Hot Lotto Sizzler, five balls plus the Hot…
A Coeur d’Alene man accused of stabbing another man last night has a criminal history that includes a kidnapping trial 10 years ago. His co-defendant in that case? The same man police believe was stabbed last night. Alan D. Burtness, 36, (right) is due in…
Seattle Seahawks new general manager John Schneider addresses the news media at the team headquarters in Renton, Wash., this morning. Story here. (AP Photo/John Froschauer)Spokane's unemployment rate jumps to 9.3%/Tom Sowa, SR60% of Idaho, Montana wolves have tapeworms/AP & SRTroy, Mont., left w/1 cop after…
Tom and KJ Torgerson has seen all kinds of wildlife outside their Fernan Hill home. Elk, deer, moose and black bear have shown up at one point from dusk to dawn. But they've never encountered any wolf tracks. Until now. "I looked at the tracks.…
10:33 a.m. Troy wants to speak to police re: a possible embezzlement.10:04 a.m. Anthony wants to speak to police re: a check written to Shopko on a closed account.9:50 a.m. A female student has passed out twice at Lake City High.9:23 a.m. Susan in Worley…
A sign of the times is posted on the bow of a boat at the 108th New York Boat Show in New York's Javits Convention Center earlier today. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)Question: Do you own a boat? Use it much? Do you regret buying it and…
Idaho enacted a state law regulating and permitting wine tastings five years ago, so why not allow the same for distilled spirits? That’s what Rep. Jim Clark, R-Hayden Lake, proposed this morning in legislation that the House State Affairs Committee agreed to introduce on a…
I’m not buying the idea that Brown’s win is a Tea Party triumph — especially for the Idaho flavor of Tea Party Republicans. Like Risch and fellow Idaho GOP Sen. Mike Crapo, Brown is an attorney who rose through the ranks of his state’s Legislature.…
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.
