The House Education Committee has voted 12-3 along party lines to introduce legislation reinstating two more provisions from the voter-rejected Proposition 1: Requiring that teacher contract negotiations be conducted in public, and allowing school districts to unilaterally impose contract terms if an agreement isn’t reached…
Originally published at 1:59 p.m. Monday Huckleberries has learned ... that the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations will hold press conference at 1 p.m. Tuesday to condemn the offensive anti-Obama "joke" made by School Trustee Brent Regan at a legislative forum Saturday. The…
Brent Regan (pictured) says he never intended to hurt anyone with a comment, perceived by many to be racist, that he made about President Barack Obama during a legislative forum Saturday in Post Falls. Regan, the Coeur d’Alene School District’s newest trustee, contributed to a…
Photographer Jerome A. Pollos of the Coeur d'Alene Press snapped this photo of McEuen Field last May. McEuen, of course, is undergoing a total overhaul, which should be complete by this fall. What would you like Coeur d'Alene to look like in 2030? Backing up…
For those keeping score at home, Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" was published on this date in 1845 by the New York Daily Mirror. According to Wikipedia: "The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the…
It seems not everyone is pleased by the Boy Scouts of America's (BSA) decision to re-consider its controversial ban on gay participants. A number of conservative pundits were quick to condemn the BSA's Jan. 28 announcement. The American Family Association's Bryan Fischer, whose anti-gay declarations…
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.
