My morning routine begins with a couple of cups of strong black coffee and the morning papers. They evoke a variety of emotions but rarely do they bring tears. Yesterday's did. It, of course, was Memorial Day. The front page of the Spokesman Review was…
5:47 p.m. Goodwill @ 4th & Harrison/CdA reports catching cooperative shoplifter. 5:33 p.m. Resident in 1900 block of N12th/CdA reports ongoing problem w/neighbor's loud music. 5:21 p.m. Callers from Fairwind Apts, 1905 Appleway/CdA, report 25YO man on bike yelling at people. 5:07 p.m. CPD officer…
WWII veteran Tom DePew solemnly rings a bell as other veterans read the names of submarines and the number of sailors lost in action Monday, May 28, 2012, during a Memorial Day event on the shores of Hayden Lake. Other veterans of the submarine service…
"No spots on my camera lens, just the evening hatch at Bloom Lake northeast of Sandpoint," posts Marianne Love/Slight Detour. "(Husband) Bill decided to take his pontoon boat and try out the beautiful little lake yesterday." More here. 10 of my favorite 'words of the…
Coeur d'Alene School District spokeswoman Laura Rumpler sent the following to HucksOnline after this blog emailed her re: possible complaints about Recallers using school property for signature gathering: "Multiple members of the school district Administrative team received citizen complaints that Recall CDA petitioners had set…
Rough winds of May did rip and pound; now pink confetti on the ground. The Bard of Sherman Avenue
Here's further proof that the reach of HucksOnline is everywhere in the community, even inside RecallCDA HQ & even while I'm on vacation. Phantom Photographer snapped this photo last week of two Recallers womaning Recall HQ in the Sunset Mall while a resident signs petitions…
Forty-three years ago this past Tuesday, the Green Bay Packers issued a terse statement that began with these words: “Guard and author Jerry Kramer announces his retirement after an 11-year career that stretches back to 1958.” Kramer, just 33 years old, had compiled an outstanding…
Genevieve Nutting, Miss Idaho 2011-2012, shared her passion for journalism, arduous 18,000 mile journey across the world and her fellowship with the Girl Scouts of America (GSA) to the Journalistic-English (JE) 11 class Wednesday, April 25, in room 103. Born in Spokane, Nutting discovered a…
A compilation of public art bike racks in Coeur d'Alene, from Coeur d'Alene Art Commission page. Art is subjective, of course. So for every person who protested Genesha's presence, there was someone who praised the statue's craftsmanship. For every person who marvels at the creativity…
Earlier, I posted the response by Tina Jacobson's lawyers to the Spokesman-Review's motion to quash Jacobson's subpoena seeking identities for three anonymous HucksOnline commenters: almostinnocentbystander, Phaedrus & OutOfStateTater. The memorandum was issued last week while I was on vacation. The SR has responded to the…
Most years, the job of precinct committee person (each major party has them) flies quietly under the radar. In Idaho (and some other places), not this year. Across Idaho,battles for precinct committee positions have erupted, reflecting an ideological struggle inside the Republican Party. One of…
Amanda Parrish, a Watershed Program Director with The Lands Council, carries water she drew from Coulee Creek to plants her program has planted near the Creek recently at Coulee Creek, just off of Coulee Hite Road in western Spokane County. Parrish and her colleague Joe…
Do you find the name Five Wives Vodka offensive? The Idaho State Liquor Division did, and has banned the vodka from the state. "We feel Five Wives Vodka concept is offensive to a prominent segment of our population and will not be carried," Howard Wasserstein,…
Martin Luther King, JR. Way opens on this week in downtown Spokane. (Dan Pelle SR photo) It may have taken more than four decades, but Spokane drivers will be able to motor down their own Martin Luther King Jr. Way for the first time this…
11:56 a.m. Owen asks for animal control re: incident w/vicious dog @ Coeur d'Alene Place Sunday. 11:44 a.m. CPDer responding from 19th & Sherman to HQ to handle report of misbehaving juveniles. 11:30 a.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activities report for May 28-29 here. 11:01…
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.…
Attorneys for former Kootenai County GOP CC Chairwoman Tina Jacobson, has filed the following memorandum to the motion to quash subpoena filed against the Spokesman-Review in her attempt to gain the identity of three anonymous HucksOnline posters. The memorandum contends that the newspaper has no…
James Purtee, the newly appointed member of the Coeur d'Alene School Board, sets up an inflatable at McEuen Field over the Memorial Day weekend, supporting the attempted recall of Coeur d'Alene Mayor Sandi Bloem and three City Council members: Deanna Goodlander, Woody McEvers and Mike…
Christa Hazel: The school district did not authorize Recall CdA to use school grounds this weekend. There is a board policy #910 that outlines how groups/individuals can get permission to be on school grounds. According to the Public Information Officer, Lara Rumpler, these individuals had…
Sarah Kladar, who will be a freshman at Coeur d'Alene High this fall, was part of the rifle squad honoring Navy veterans at Honeysuckle Beach on Memorial Day. In 2011, Sarah was honored by Kohl's nationally for her volunteer efforts in selling about 5,000 dishtowels.…
On her Twitter account, Nicole Hensley of Blush Response tweets: "I love it when writers describe Eastern Washington as 'vast and desolate.'" Question: How would you describe eastern Washington?
Lake Coeur d'Alene may not have reached the standards of Walden Pond yet, but North Idaho's fight for environmental protection will have to carry on without Terry Harris. The executive director of conservation group Kootenai Environmental Alliance will be leaving the organization, as well as…
Jeers ... to Congressman Raul Labrador, R-Idaho (pictured). Labrador supported the GOP's closed primary election. When Idaho Secretary of State Ben Ysursa pointed out the obvious - that more voters stayed home this year because they didn't want to register with a party - he…
Mike Kennedy, one of the Coeur d'Alene City Council members targeted for recall by the Souza-Orzell-Sims crowd, Facebooked an encounter with an individual over the weekend who was set up on Lake City High grounds. Here's Mike's description from 1:23 p.m. Sunday: "Recall petitioners on…
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.
| May 2012 | ||||
| 31 | 30 | 29 | 28 | 26 |
| 25 | 24 | 23 | 22 | 21 |
| 18 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 14 |
| 12 | 11 | 10 | 09 | 08 |
| 07 | 05 | 04 | 03 | 02 |
| 01 |
