Well, we have a new county clerk who would have finished a distant third had he decided to run for Coeur d'Alene mayor in November. But he was the best of three less-than-stellar choices engineered by the dominant Tea Party/Ron Pauler wing of the Kootenai…
Commissioner Todd Tondee swears in Jim Brannon as the new Kootenai County clerk, as Commissioners Dan Green and Jai Nelson look on. The county commissioners unanimously selected Brannon to the the next clerk, in place of the late Cliff Hayes, Friday afternoon. He was there…
Readers of HucksOnline shouldn't be surprised -- at all -- that the GOP RINOs ignored more qualified candidates -- like former Post Falls city administrator and state senator Jim Hammond -- to set the stage for favorite son Jim Brannon to ascend to the county…
Update: On a 3-0 vote, following a motion by Commissioner Dan Green, county commissioners appointed Republicam Jim Brannon to replace the late Cliff Hayes as Kootenai County clerk. Brannon was immediately sworn into office. That 24 people are attending the commissioner interviews with the three…
Time 2 Vote ... Former NBA basketball star Dennis Rodman, second from right, and an interpreter watch a basketball practice session in Pyongyang, North Korea earlier today. Rodman selected the members of the North Korean team who will play in Pyongyang against visiting NBA stars…
5:37 p.m. Trouble 20ish female is standing naked in front of Post Falls house. 4:21 p.m. Vehicle slid into fence & ditch @ s/b H41/Diagonal Road, Rathdrum. 4:13 p.m. Caller says ISP officer @ I-90/H95 driving w/lights off, but officer assures dispatcher he has lights…
A&E "Duck Dynasty" stars are shown, from left, Phil Robertson, Jase Robertson, Si Robertson and Willie Robertson. (AP Photo/A&E, Zach Dilgard) Representative Lawerence Denney says recent controversy over anti-gay comments made by Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson will not deter him from bringing the reality…
"One of the more common street side businesses that I notice around Shanghai neighborhoods are shoe shine stands," posts Thom George/Eye on Shanghai. The former Kootenai County resident offers daily observations about life in Shanghai here. This day .../Slight Detour Christian hatred/Arch Druid Small miracles/Dogwalk…
Here's another photo SR photographer Kathy Plonka selected as her best of 2013: Kendall Sprock-Parrett listens for tones during a hearing test at St.Joseph's Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic in Post Falls on December 7, 2012. Kendall was diagnosed with Cholesteatoma, a cyst located in…
A federal judge struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban Friday in a decision that brings a growing shift toward allowing gay marriage to a conservative state where the Mormon church has long been against it. The Salt Lake County clerk's office started issuing marriage licenses…
Gov. Butch Otter on Friday appointed freshman Rep. Janie Ward-Engelking to fill the vacant Senate seat formerly held by Branden Durst. Durst, a member of the Senate Education Committee, resigned Dec. 1 after he had been living out of his district part-time. Durst said he…
Huckleberries has received one of the white slips of paper (see copy of one above) handed out by the UCNI/Pauler/Rally Right crowd to some but not all of the local GOP precinct committee members, directing them who to support for county clerk -- and in…
In this Aug. 29, 2013, file photo by Kathy Plonka, 14-year-old Isaac Sanders, of Rathdrum, demonstrates a ballet move. Sanders has been recruited by the Bolshoi Ballet, in Moscow Russia. Photographer Plonka, of the Coeur d'Alene bureau of The Spokesman-Review, has selected favorite photos that…
My dental hygienist wondered aloud this morning why snowfalls of 1 to 3 inches are now labeled "snow event" or something of that sort. She commutes each day over Fourth of July Pass from the Silver Valley. "Don't people realize that we live in North…
Coeur d'Alene City Hall will be closed for Christmas on Wednesday. Other city offices and facilities will be closed as well. Emergency calls for police, fire, and streets can be made by dialing 911. Other city facilities have emergency numbers and can be reached if…
Two-thirds of the public believes the war in Afghanistan has not been worth fighting, according to a new poll. A Washington Post/ABC News poll found a record 50 percent of respondents “strongly” believe the 12-year war was not worth fighting, and 66 percent felt it…
Pinkerton Retirement Specialists LLC, a Coeur d'Alene-based investment firm, plans to break ground in May on a new 31,766-square-foot headquarters building. The firm has been in leased office space at 2141 Merritt Creek Loop in Riverstone since 2004, and in Coeur d'Alene since 1997. The…
I wonder if the commissioners are being lobbied re: their choice of a successor to the late county clerk, Cliff Hayes? In April 2012, he expressed unhappiness that he'd been lobbied re: the commissioners' appointment to fill a Coeur d'Alene School Board vacancy. Remember? On…
12:19 p.m. KCSDeputy reports crash on Government Way, near Kootenai County Fairgrounds. 12:10 p.m. Patrol officer reports female unconscious, male w/serious head injuries, from H95/Blackwell Island crash. Extrication needed. Southbound lanes of H95 are blocked at the scene. 12:08 p.m. Small, red vehicle has slid…
The three nominees to become the next Kootenai County clerk are, from left: Dean Isaacson, Jim Brannon and Bjorn Handeen. (Facebook photo: Councilwoman KerriT) Commissioner Dan Green told Huckleberries moments ago that the Kootenai County Commission is prepared to select the next county clerk at…
An outfit called the Idaho New Years Commission has announced plans to lower a 16-foot-long glowing potato from the US Bank Building in downtown Boise to commemorate New Year’s Eve and Idaho’s sesquicentennial. The event will include live music in the Grove and along 8th…
Above, Jim Brannon and his wife at the 2009 watch party for the Coeur d'Alene City Council elections. (File photo: Duane Rasmussen) No one who reads this blog should be surprised that the Tea Party/Ron Paul wing of the county GOP Central Committee has engineered…
Prior to the Kootenai County GOP dog-and-pony show to help pick 3 names as county clerk nominees, candidate Dean Isaacson handed out flyers with the following wording: Vote Dean Isaacson, County Clerk Time to bring the Constitution Home 33 years Project Management Party Leadership Snohomish…
Lake City High School senior Ashley Lewis stands next to the 8-foot-tall horse that she made out of driftwood at the school in Coeur d’Alene on Tuesday. She plans to sell it to help pay for horse feed. Scott Maben SR story here. (SR photo:…
Thursday Poll: A solid majority of Hucks Nation voted that A&E was wrong in suspending "Duck Dynasty" star Phil Robertson for anti-gay comments in a magazine article. 104 of 171 respondents (60.82%) said the network made the wrong move in suspending the patriarch of the…
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.
