I'll post this Wild Card while we wait for Ron Lahr of Strategery Group/Reagan Republicans to surface to discuss all that campaign money that his public relations firm has collected to promote Reagan Republican candidates in Post Falls and Coeur d'Alene. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting ...
A male wood duck, with its multicolored, iridescent plumage and red eyes, paddles through the marshy waters of the Cannon Hill Park pond on Tuesday in Spokane. The water reflects the foliage around the edge of the pond. (SR photo: Dan Pelle)
Kim Kardashian's lightning-quick marriage shouldn't have any impact on the E! Entertainment network's relationship with the reality TV family despite some shuffling this week, E!'s chief said on Wednesday. E! moved up, and then moved back, a rerun of Kardashian's lavish wedding to pro basketball…
5:25 p.m. Some sort of traffic hazard reported @ Lincoln & Virginia/CdA. 5:17 p.m. CPD Blues are looking for 15YO runaway Cody, 5-8, 115lbs, last seen 6 a.m. today. 5:15 p.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activities report for Nov. 1-2 here. 5:10 p.m. 4 skateboarders…
After a press conference in the Thomas S. Foley U.S. Courthouse in Spokane, Otto Zehm family members Dale Zehm, center, with his wife Sandy, thank U.S. Attorney Mike Ormsby, far left, for helping get a guilty verdict in the Karl Thompson trial today. Thomas Clouse…
Java Lounge owner Fonda Garringer listens as Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, left, speaks to local residents during a campaign stop at her coffee shop, Wednesday, in Williamsburg, Iowa. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) Cutline Contest: 1. Java Lounge owner…
Downtown Coeur d'Alene was full of combative and unconscious drunks -- and a public urinator or two -- from Oct. 1-23, according to the latest Coeur d'Alene Police Department Bar Report. But the favorite of HucksOnline was this one, from 1:37 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 23:…
On her Facebook wall, Linda Lantzy/Idaho Scenic Images writes of this image by Leland Howard: "This is one of my favorite views of the south fork of the Snake River in east Idaho because of the leading lines and balance." Canadians strike again/Blush Response Purple…
A jury has convicted Spokane Police Officer Karl F. Thompson Jr. of needlessly beating Otto Zehm and then lying about it to cover up his actions. The verdict comes five years and seven months since Zehm’s life ended and growing questions of police accountability began.…
Kootenai County Clerk Cliff Hayes announced today that County Elections’ personnel made an error on the City of Harrison’s ballot instructions. “The instruction should have said vote for three City Council candidates, but the instruction said vote for two,” Hayes said. “We apologize for our…
Here's what Phaedrus would do if he had Duane Hagadone's money: "Me? I’d pay my mom’s nursing home care so that Medicare won’t have to step-in after all mom’s money is gone; I’d pay six-figure bonuses too all the people who’ve cared for her and…
Gustav Lester from Caldwell, Idaho (left) and Brendon Asbury from St. Maries (right as Michael Jackson) perform as part of a Thriller-themed flash mob Nov. 1 at North Idaho College. Zombies lurched from behind newspapers in various lounges throughout the NIC Edminster Student Union Building…
A third, unidentified woman is saying that she considered filing a workplace complaint against Herman Cain over what she considered unwanted and aggressive behavior, the Associated Press reports. The former National Restaurant Association employee says Cain invited her to his corporate apartment and described situations…
Blogger Dennis Mansfield believes Easterners who don't know Idaho from Iowa will have a problem on their hands if Boise State joings the Big East conference. Dennis: "The perfect example that represents this odd geography dilemma once happened to me on a S. Cal trip.…
TWolf22: It is not just whooping cough. These kids bring all kinds of colds and flu into the schools and spread them around to the entire school. If your child is sick,,, keep them home. Teachers are not babysitters. It is a public health issue…
Ice formed during the early morning watering at the U.S. Forest Service Nursery in Coeur d'Alene this morning. Winter weather making an appearance in the Inland Northwest. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka) WSU student hospitalized after clothes catch on fire/SR Boise State football Big East bound?/David…
Please, for all that is holy, have your children immunized so that the sweet little darlings don't give me whooping cough ever again in my entire life. I know that you may have reasons why you choose not to immunize your children. But if they…
Noonish: Allen in Hayden WalMart security reports catching a cooperative shoplifter. Noon: Nervous bicyclist seen knocking on neighbor's door in 7300 block of Valley/Dalton Gardens. 11:59 a.m. A tent is on fire in the woods behind Target, Govt Way & Canfield. Unknown if occupied. 11:57…
Jeff Ward of the Kootenai County Reagan Republicans sent the following letter moments ago to Coeur d'Alene City Clerk Susan Weathers: "Since you unfortunately feel it is proper to communicate with on-line blogs about your office investigating organizations and companies before informing those entities that…
"Hypocrisy is not only at home among the "99%" but here in the wilderness of North Idaho. Yesterday on a local political blog, Coeur d'Alene's own liberal Democrat "Yosemite Sam", City Councilman Mike Kennedy, launched this election's attack on the Reagan Republicans, Ron Lahr and…
In talking with newspaper editors about running excerpts of the book of reminiscences of my years working with and for Governor Cecil D. Andrus, I often encountered the question “where are today’s Cecil Andruses?” Or “why can’t we produce leaders like Cecil Andrus, or Dan…
Tuesday Poll: A plurality of HucksOnline voters say the best campaigning method is door-to-door. 48 of 169 respondents (28.4%) touted door-to-door as the best way to reach voters. 31 (18.34%) said direct mailings is the second most effective campaign method, followed by radio advertising with…
Executive Chef Scott Miller shows off the signature duck entree at Seasons Fresh Grill and Bar. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka) The first thing that greeted me at Seasons Fresh Grill and Bar in Coeur d’Alene was the striking sculpture above the fireplace by award-winning local…
... that Duane Hagadone now owns the 205-foot mega-yacht Lady Lola again. In fact, HucksOnline sources say that he bought the yacht back for about half or less that he originally sold it for. Hagadone's original asking price for the Lady Lola was around $51…
In his blog today, editorialist Kevin Richert of the Idaho Statesman focuses on UIdaho's failure to report to Moscow police that associate professor Ernesto Bustamante had pointed a gun three times at eventual victim Katy Benoit: "Would this have made any difference? Would this have…
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.
