Two noteworthy events will take place early this afternoon. The Coeur d'Alene School Board will meet at the district's administrative building at 1:30 to discuss a disciplinary situation in executive session. A district spokeswoman has said that no discussion of the flap involving Trustee Brent…
On his Facebook page, Robin Loznak of Kellogg, Ore., posts this wonderful photo that brings up the eternal question: Why did the chicken cross the road? Posts Robin: "One of the chickens was teasing me again. I asked her why, but she didn't answer." You…
Alicia Troye was exhausted, and her joints hurt. “Everything hurt, all the time,” she said. She was 37. Her doctor ruled out arthritis, thyroid problems and other potential causes of her fatigue and pain. Meanwhile, in an ongoing struggle to lose weight, the Coeur d’Alene…
Shortly before 4 p.m. today, Kootenai County deputies responded to Rimrock Road, south of Corbin Hill Road, north of Hayden, for a school bus accident. The Lakeland School District bus, which was carrying 14 children, ages 13-17, was southbound on Rimrock Rd, when it failed…
The body of a homicide victim is removed from a home at 4818 N. Lincoln in Spokane today. Police were called to the home at 4:49 a.m. and found a 19-year-old male dead from a shot to the head. The suspect, 19-year-old Jeremy McVickers, has…
5:14 p.m. Motorist in gold Toyota 4Runner flipping off others @ Prairie/Ramsey, Hayden. 4:01 p.m. Caller reports abandoned Mazda w/b on H53/MP 6 (Idaho Road/Rathdrum). 4:53 p.m. Moose hard to see, walking along H95/Chilco is hard to see. 4:46 p.m. 62YO male has been hurt…
Duane Rasmussen got a bit artsy-fartsy with this silhouetted photo of Congressman Raul Labrador at the townhall meeting Monday. Huckleberries appreciates offbeat local photos like this one. Vinyl?/Tumblewords I'm spoiled/Bay Views A little taste/Stebbijo's Place Neologisms/Writing North Idaho Is 'stupid' party unfair?/Fort Boise The glamour…
This image released by NBC shows Tina Fey as Liz Lemon, left, and Jane Krakowski as Jenna Maroney in a scene from the series finale of "30 Rock," airing Thursday on NBC. (AP Photo/NBC, Ali Goldstein) Question: Will you be going through "30 Rock" withdrawals…
There's an online petition battle going on between Gov. Butch Otter and Idaho Freedom Foundation exec Wayne Hoffman. Otter wants Idahoans to sign his petitions in support of a state-run health insurance exchange. Hoffman wants Idahoans to sign his petitions against the insurance exchange. Thanks…
The Senate Education Committee heard a presentation this afternoon from Alan Dornfest, property tax policy supervisor for the Idaho State Tax Commission, on the impact of a possible repeal of the personal property tax on business equipment on Idaho school districts. The upshot: With only…
Earlier this month, Brian Dennehy started a new job as chief marketing officer of Nordstrom Inc. In his first week, he pulled aside a colleague to ask a question: How hard it is for a nonemployee to enter the building? Mr. Dennehy doesn't have a…
In this Coeur d'Alene School District Web site photo, Trustee Brent Regan is sworn in during a meeting of the Coeur d'Alene School Board in December. Regan ignited a firestorm by telling an insensitive anti-Obama joke at a legislative forum in Post Falls Saturday. The…
Norm Gissel, a long-time leader in the local human rights movement and an attorney that helped bankrupt the Aryan Nations, called on the four other members of the Coeur d'Alene School Board "to publicly express their own views regarding the recent public comments by their…
Moments ago, the executive committee Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations condemned a possible "racist" joke told by appointed Coeur d'Alene School Board Trustee Brent Regan at a legislative forum in Post Falls Saturday. Task force President Christie Wood and long-time human-rights leaders Tony…
House and Senate Democrats unveiled a five-bill package of legislation this morning aimed at enhancing voting rights, from allowing online voter registration – something they said 15 states already have – to, like most other states, adopting a “Motor Voter” law requiring voter registration materials…
Cats kill billions of birds every year and even more tiny rodents and other mammals in the United States, a new study finds. According to the research, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, cats kill between 1.4 billion and 3.7 billion birds and between…
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Alex Smith answers a question during media day for the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game Tuesday in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Pat Semansky) Question: Do you care who wins the Super Bowl?
12:19 p.m. 50YO Coeur d'Alene woman arrested as burglary suspect after being found hiding under Rubbermaid storage tub @ Driftwood/Greensferry, south of Spokane River. News release here. 12:09 p.m. Firefighter says mill "50 percent involved" on Blanchard Road Cut-Across. Twin Lakes and Northern Lakes fire…
Monday Poll: Overwhelming, Hucks Nation said that the anti-Obama joke told by appointed Coeur d'Alene School Board Trustee Brent Regan at a legislative forum in Post Falls Saturday was inappropriate. When asked if Regan's joke was appropriate, 183 of 328 respondents (55.79%) said "hell no,"…
YouTube Video of Brent Regan speaking to Tea Party of North Idaho gathering on June 14, 2009. I hadn't paid much attention to Brent Regan before the recent flap involving his insensitive, anti-Obama "joke" at the legislative forum in Post Falls. I knew that he'd…
Richard Pfenneger, a military veteran who recently spoke to the North Idaho Pachyderm Club about Agent Orange, asks Congressman Raul Labrador a question during the townhall meeting at the Coeur d'Alene Library Monday night. Pfenneger is concerned about the lingering effects of Agent Orange on…
Joker: As an active participant in the virtual lynch mob for Brent Regan’s head yesterday, his explanation should give everybody pause to stop and think. Do we condemn the man no matter what he says after the fact? Yes that is the easy thing to…
From Kestrel-West Morning Memo: When the governor's education task force said 'no labor issues' it opened the door for the Legislature to act. And act they did. Yesterday Idaho School Boards Association Director Karen Echeverria introduced four of seven labor-related bills to the Senate Education…
A protester stands at the back of a capacity town-hall crowd to hear Congressman Raul Labrador in the Coeur d'Alene Library Monday night. (Duane Rasmussen photo special to Huckleberries) At a town-hall meeting in the Coeur d'Alene Library Monday, Congressman Raul Labrador appeared to agree…
Adamsfly: I am glad regan apologized to the lady who called, but I could care less about his apology to the school board. What about an apology to all of the citizens of North Idaho, thousands who have worked for years to get rid 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.
