Every time I attend the annual human rights banquet of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations, I'm reminded of the privilege that I had to cover the task force in its formative years. I was friends with the giants of the movement past…
An osprey comes out of Junction City Pond in Junction City, Ore., with a rainbow trout earlier today. The pond is stocked with trout and several ospreys were successful capturing the fish. (AP Photo/The Register-Guard, Kevin Clark)
Councilman Mike Kennedy tells Huckleberries Online that he will introduce a Coeur d'Alene ordinance that would ban discrimination against gays in Coeur d'Alene. The ordinance, which will be patterned after one in Boise, will be introduced at the noon meeting Monday, May 13, of the…
5:48 p.m. 2 carloads of drunk adults in cars w/Shoshone Co plates leave biz @ 330 E. Appleway. 5:30 p.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activities report for April 22-23 here. 5:20 p.m. A dead deer is laying on s/b H95/MP 418 (south of Mica Grange).…
P.F Chang's employees Michelle Sampson and David Crane spent Monday afternoon in Spokane scrubbing pink paint off the restaurant's replica of a Chinese T'ang Dynasty horse, which was painted in support of last Sunday's Susan G Komen Race for the Cure event. "I volunteered to…
Michelle Fink presents the Civil Rights Award at the 2013 Human Rights Banquet in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Christina Crawford accepts on behalf of the Benewah County Human Rights Coalition. (Video courtesy of Coeur d'Alene TV Channel 19) A human rights organization in Benewah County has…
William Shakespeare died at age 52 on this date 397 years ago. Marianne Love/Slight Detour brought that fact to the attention of Huckleberries Online in her blog post today: Shakespeare had himself a feather pen or something like that. He also had to read big…
At JeanC's Cat House & Shooting Gallery, our Witch with a Gun (and a camera) photographed a flock of redwing blackbirds enjoying themselves at a park in the Moscow area Monday. More here. Sales tax morass/Fort Boise Boston, the aftermath/Bay Views Confusion reigns/Dogwalk Musings Out…
In his The EDge blog, Kevin Richert provides a student's response to a tempest-in-teapot controversy re: giving out shot glasses at a high school prom. Here’s an excerpt from organizer Sammantha Gulliford’s guest opinion in today's Twin Falls Times-News: “I ran for junior class president…
The Idaho Transportation Department this week agreed to new regulations allowing transgender drivers to change the sex designation on their driver's licenses without a note from a surgeon, the Associated Press reports, after two people complained that previous policy violated their civil rights. In April…
25 Years ago: On April 25, 1988, I led off my Huckleberries column with this item: Katie Brodie's possible campaign for the state Senate bears watching closely. It will be a surprise if she decides Tuesday to go ahead with her challenge fo Democratic Sen.…
Shara Evans, of West Bloomfield, Mich., acts during a "zombie apocalypse" exercise, which included students dressing up as the undead, on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, Mich., today. The exercise was designed to get School of Public Health students thinking about what…
At the Human Rights Banquet last night, Mayor Sandi Bloem reported that she received a letter from the Western Orthopedics Association, in which the president expressed concern re: bringing a convention of 450-600 people to Coeur d'Alene in 2015. The president said the diversified members…
The Coeur d'Alene Police Department shouldn't expect that guy in the black 2-door Ford, with Kootenai County plates, to pay that $15 parking ticket issued by K301 at 9:40 this morning -- you know, the one who grabbed the ticket and envelope, wadded them up…
CPALisa (re: "My 2 Cents: Will Sandi run again?"): "I just hate it though when everyone who disagrees/disagreed with the McEuen project gets lumped in with the "radical political activists". There are many of us who oppose/d the project that are politically the polar opposite…
The Idaho Supreme Court is standing by a state judge who two years ago deemed a Malad City woman a vexatious litigant for filing too many frivolous lawsuits. The justices agreed Tuesday that the judge acted appropriately in finding that Holli Lundahl Telford meets the…
Ryan Trevithick of Montana's Parrot & Exotic Bird Sanctuary reaches for "Love Love" a scarlet amcaw that is being reunited with his owner Mike Taylor after 5 years, on Friday. (AP Photo/Montana Standard, Walter Hinick) A Great Falls man who lost his macaw in a…
11:30 a.m. Female reports to KCSD that she chased off burglars in a barn, who left tools behind. 11:27 a.m. Male reports to KCSD that another male is trying to provoke him into a fight at work. 10:48 a.m. Gray 1998 Subaru Legacy weaving, tailgating…
I know that Mayor Sandi Bloem would like to return as mayor for a fourth, four-year term. And she deserves to be re-elected. No mayor during my nearly 30 years in Coeur d'Alene has accomplished as much as Bloem. Under her guidance, as Downtown Coeur…
Following the Republican Party's losses in the 2012 elections, there has been a lot of hand-wringing about what the party should do to improve its electoral fortunes. Some argue the GOP should moderate its positions on social issues, as well as policies that affect income…
Hackers have compromised the main Twitter account of The Associated Press, sending out an erroneous tweet about an attack at the White House. The tweet, which said that there had been two explosions at the White House and President Barack Obama was injured, came after…
I've asked Jeff Crowe of Bunkhouse Media for video of the short comments that Coeur d'Alene Mayor Sandi Bloem made last night at the annual Human Rights Banquet. I've also left a voice message for the mayor re: a letter she received from an multi-cultural…
For all the talk about the National Rifle Association as the key player in defeating gun control proposals in the Senate last week, the hunting and wildlife lobby also played a significant role. Safari Club International touts itself as a lobbying leader on Capitol Hill…
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. He is one of eight senators who crossed party lines on the showdown vote on background checks for gun buyers. The four Democrats who voted against broader background checks are from largely rural states…
Investigators from the FBI inspect the boat where Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found hiding on Friday night in a backyard in Watertown, Mass., today. There is blood spattered on the wheel fender of the trailer and bullet holes in the hull of…
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.
