A 30-year-old Clark Fork man is facing a felony assault charge for allegedly ordering another man to “moonwalk” at gunpoint. John Ernest Cross is charged with aggravated assault. Judge Barbara Buchanan sustained Cross’ $20,000 bail on Tuesday and ordered a public defender to represent him.…
A tyke at the Stop the Recall Rally models a Decline to Sign button that was among the buttons, yard signs, T-shirts, etc., provided Wednesday evening. (Photo: Stop the Recall Facebook page) CdA Humanist: The rally was great! My wife and I attended but had…
I was thinking of the purity tests, the dysfunctionalism of the Kootenai County Republican Party and the new meaning of "conservative" as defined by United Conservatives of North Idaho and even Reagan Republicans. And came up with a Jeff Foxworthy -type list. You might be…
Item: GOP leader sues anonymous commenter/Coeur d'Alene Press; And: Original HucksOnline post here More Info: An anonymous commenter on a local blog is the target of a lawsuit filed Monday by Tina Jacobson, chair of the Kootenai County Republican Party. The suit claims a commenter…
Kootenai County wants a judge to rule how many days recall petitioners have to collect signatures in their drive to oust four Coeur d'Alene incumbents. A lawsuit filed Tuesday by Kootenai County Prosecutor Barry McHugh on behalf of Kootenai County Clerk Cliff Hayes asks that…
Here's hoping perfection repeats itself. New York Yankee pitching icon Don Larsen (shown in SR file photo), the Hayden resident best remembered for tossing a perfect game in the 1956 World Series, agreed to be the honorary chair for the fundraising drive for a new…
Erno Rubik, the inventor of the Rubik's Cube, poses for The Associated Press with cubes at Liberty Science Center on Wednesday in Jersey City, N.J. The center will have an exhibit on the toys and will include a cube made with diamonds that is worth…
Duroc (RE: Burger King pledges cage-free food): Sisyphus said on another thread that the family farm is dead. That was an overstatement - almost all of my relatives are still family farmers, and I have many friends involved in smaller-scale community-supported agriculture - but industrial…
Paul Mathews: There is another thread that asks “What makes you feel a teensy bit superior?” Posting under my own name here does it for me. I blurked here for years before I starting posting, fairly recently, in large part because I suspected that I…
MikeK: There was really an amazing turnout tonight at the Stop the Recall rally. I quit counting at about 250, and people were streaming in and out all evening. This community is stronger than the persistent negativity, and it’s the “next generation” who are taking…
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.
