The Kermit the Frog balloon seems to reach out towards balloon handlers with Macy's department store's 85th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade as they work on another one of 15 giant helium balloons and 44 novelty and specialty balloons Wednesday that will be featured in…
Today's Wild Card shouldn't be called "Hump Day" because many of you, like Your Huckleberry Hound, are going to be off for the rest of the week. Mrs. O & I will be entertaining Amy Dearest, her beau, Okie Doke, and her roommate, Maggie Mae,…
My mother did our Thanksgivings, all my growing up years — with the six kids and later, their spouses and their children. It's my favorite holiday. Our family felt big back then, but now it has grown even bigger. Mom has 15 grandchildren and more…
Time is running out on a new group of Occupy Spokane protesters camped in Franklin Park whose permit runs out Thursday at midnight. (SR photo: Colin Mulvany) Landslide reported near Prichard/Shoshone News-Press CdA girls lead 5A high school prep poll/Idaho Statesman Idaho gas prices up…
5:06 p.m. A wanted man is reportedly visiting home in 4700 block of Cherry/CdA. 5:03 p.m. Patrol officer asks that father pick up daughter after he stops her @ Ramsey & Ohio Match Road/Rathdrum for unsafe driving in school parking lot & trying to elude…
Snowmobilers pause to view the beautiful back-country in this scenic provided by Hill's Resort via Pecky Cox's As The Lake Churns blog. Round trip finished at last/Bay Views "Thanks" giving/Dogwalk Musings Christmas cards: Who blinks first?/From A Simple Mind Count down to Thanksgiving continues/JeanC's Cat…
While white, evangelical Protestants are more likely than the general public to view Mormonism as a non-Christian faith — and less likely to support Mitt Romney — a majority of those voters are willing to back Romney in a general election run against President Obama,…
U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, poses with his grandchildren on stage after a Republican presidential debate in Washington on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) At Fort Boise, Tom Von Alten breaks down the latest GOP debate, including these "lowlights: I'm pretty sure the totality of Ron…
The annual gathering of bald eagles that feast on spawning kokanee at Lake Coeur d’Alene is getting off to a slow start. The eagle count at Wolf Lodge Bay is down about 70 percent from last year at this time, said Carrie Hugo, U.S. Bureau…
I love neighborhoods that subscribe to familiar "watch programs." It's a case of neighbors helping neighbors. And it works. Often in politics, when citizens are busy living their lives, the only people looking at certain things are lobbyists, politicos, elected officials and (at times) bloggers,…
Partisan creep is moving in on non-partisan territory and threatens to wreak havoc on our good government. I am angry and very sad for Coeur d’Alene. In the just-concluded, by-law-nonpartisan city elections in Kootenai County, the Reagan Republicans won all the races they invested time…
Not to get all Jean Shepherd on you, but today is one of the best days on the kid calendar. Sure, there's still school. But in the sense that anticipation often trumps the actual event, the day before the four-day Thanksgiving holiday is tough to…
A joke sign is seen at one of several entrances to the Occupy Portland camp in Portland, Ore., Tuesday. Occupy protesters want shoppers to occupy something besides door-buster sales and crowded aisles of big-box stores on Black Friday. Story here. Meanwhile, Occupy Boise plan to…
Noonish: 40-50YO man in red robe is walking w/b along I-90 @ M/P 6 (Seltice Way)/PF. Noonish: Two dogs, including a brown-and-black pitbull, are loose on Alice Court/Athol. Noonish: Caller is concerned A1 Smoke Shop, 7200 Seltice Way/Stateline, isn't answering phone. 11:54 a.m. CPD HQ…
In this CD cover image released by Walt Disney Records, the original soundtrack for "The Muppets," is shown. Disney is bringing the Muppets back together, with Jason Segel and Amy Adams, for a movie sequel after a hiatus of about a decade. New York Times…
I am 30 years old and I have just been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. It makes a lot of sense, actually. My whole life, I have been distractible, disorganized and impatient. I brainstorm a million projects and follow through on about 1 percent…
Northside garlic lovers have a new reason to rejoice this holiday season: They, too, now have their own garlic paradise. Last week, Raci Erdem, owner of Post Falls’ White House Grill and the Oval Office, and south Spokane’s West Wing, opened a stationary food truck…
Tuesday Poll: Hucks Nation sez Gov. Butch Otter shouldn't be holding Idaho up to nation in Roll Call column as an example of good governance. 102 of 164 respondents (62.2%) said Otter has no right to brag that Idaho is governed well. 56 of 164…
Corinne Hufft, right, of Dallas, feeds a boiled mealworm to her daughter Ella Hufft, 3, as visitors sample Thanksgiving-inspired foods with insects at the Audubon Insectarium in New Orleans. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
As you’ve probably heard by now, negotiations failed this week with the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction. Dubbed the supercommittee, it was charged with finding at least $1.2 trillion in debt savings over the next decade. Now the political finger-pointing is well underway. One…
Portland Police Capt. Todd Wyatt was placed on paid leave today after Idaho officials informed the bureau that Wyatt is being charged with exhibition or use of a deadly weapon stemming from an alleged off-duty road rage case this summer. The Kootenai County District Attorney's…
In this digital era, computer users need passwords for everything. But how much effort have you put into choosing your password? SplashData, a password software management firm, looked at millions of stolen passwords posted online by hackers and came out with its list of worst…
The Idaho County Commissioners Tuesday voted to join a lawsuit that challenges the constitutionality of a proposed plan that reconfigures the state's legislative districts. The county joins Bonner, Boundary, Benewah, Shoshone and Clearwater counties that have hired Boise lawyer Christ T. Troupis to represent them…
Don Cianci rides a lift truck to the level of the new copper squirrel bridge being installed above the 1300 block of Kessler Blvd. in Longview, Wash., Friday. The shiny copper stood out against the fall colors around it as the Sandbaggers, a local service…
President Barack Obama, with daughters Sasha and Malia, pardons Liberty, a 19-week old, 45-pound turkey, on the occasion of Thanksgiving, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011, on the North Portico of the White House in Washington. At left is National Turkey Federation Chairman Richard Huisinga. (AP Photo/Charles…
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.
