Vacation Poll: Overwhelmingly, Hucks Nation wants the Idaho GOP to end its new, closed primary (which resulted in a record low voter turnout earlier this month) and return to its historic open primary. 322 of 380 respondents (84.74%) want to return to the open primary. Only 45 of 380 respondents (11.84%) want the new closed-primary system. 13 were undecided.
Today's Poll: Should Coeur d'Alene follow the lead of Spokane and name a street after Martin Luther King Jr.?
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.