A swimmer gets out of the water next to a snowman with bunny ears at the snow covered beach of Strandbad Lake Wannsee lido in Berlin, Germany, earlier today. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/dpa, Rainer Jensen) Thursday winner -- DFO (w/3 likes): "No matter…
From Kestrel West Morning Memo: A defeated measure designed to protect health care workers from assault highlighted a simmering feud. “It sure appears as a conflict that Luke Malek did not disclose that he was doing this as a favor to his father and KMC.…
Idaho Democratic Party Chairman Larry Kenck says Republicans in the Legislature are scared to take up Medicaid expansion bills because they fear “blowback from their ‘return to the gold standard’ faction.” With Friday’s hoped-for adjournment dashed by Wednesday’s Senate defeat of the K-12 budget, Kenck…
It's going to a vote. The Coeur d'Alene City Council agreed Thursday to ask voters for the authority to borrow up to $36.3 million for federally mandated upgrades to its wastewater treatment plant. The City Council begrudgingly voted 4 to 1 to put the up…
Redux: You can read all about the parents complaint here. Marc Lyons, attorney for the Coeur d'Alene School Board, has told a parents group that the trustees want respond to their grievance re: the disbanding of the IB/PYP programs in the district. Here's parent Ashlie…
SR photographer Jesse Tinsley was on hand last night when a donkey basketball game broke out at Lakeland High. Question: What's the strangest animal that you've ever ridden? Moi? A circus elephant.
In the letters to the editor section of today's Coeur d'Alene Press: Pro Adams: I would just like to go on record about Steve Adams. I’ve done business with Steve for many years. I have found him to be a very honest, straightforward and sincere…
In his weekly Cheers & Jeers column, Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune cheers ... to Senate President Pro Tem Brent Hill, R-Rexburg: "He didn't just block Sen. Bob Nonini's barely concealed ploy to spend tax dollars on religious schools. Hill drove a stake through…
Strange night and morning at Casa Oliveria Wednesday and today sans Snoopy (who BTW was named after rapper Snoop Doggy Dog not Charlie Brown's Snoopy). Mrs. O & I caught ourselves several times stumbling over little rituals that we had done automatically as a result…
Jaycee Philen, 9-months, of Tomball, cries as she gets her photo taken by her mom, Jamie Philen in the blue bonnets near Chappell Hill, Texas, on Highway 290, today. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Karen Warren)
The Coeur d’Alene City Council agreed Thursday to put on an election May 21 for the authority to borrow up to $36 million to pay for federally mandated upgrades to its wastewater treatment plant. Councilman Ron Edinger voted against it/Coeur d'Alene Press. Question: Anyone know…
Where do you fit in the rank of your family? Are you the oldest? The youngest? Or the middle child/children? I started out as the oldest, and then got deranked for a year or so, to the Middle child… My folks had a foster child..…
5:31 p.m. Out-of-gas, large motor home stuck in middle of s/b lanes on s/b H95/Elder Road. 5:20 p.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activities report for March 27-28 here. 5:13 p.m. Horsehaven/Post Falls neighbors reports boy shooting BB gun off back deck. 5:11 p.m. 3YO girl…
Bjorn Handeen, left, a candidate for Coeur d'Alene School Board, makes nice with former GOP legislator Gary Ingram during the Reagan Republican luncheon at Fedora today. Handeen and Ingram or on opposite sides of the power struggle in the Kootenai County GOP Central Committee. Handeen…
Rep. Luke Malek, R-Coeur d’Alene, a former Kootenai County deputy prosecutor whose first bill as an Idaho state representative was defeated on a tied Senate vote today – a tie that was broken by a no vote from Lt. Gov. Brad Little – said, “I’m…
In this July 20, 1993, SR file photo, Tyler Ferguson, left, and Joey Jones get acquainted with greyhounds from Canadian Kennels at Coeur d'Alene Greyhound Park. Students and staff of the Coeur d'Alene Association for Handicapped Recreation visit the park as part of a summer…
It’s the core of Coeur d’Alene, and city officials are trying to figure out what to do with it. The so-called “4 corners” area is where Northwest Boulevard runs into Sherman Avenue downtown at the intersection of Government Way and Mullan Avenue. Crews tore down…
Huckleberries hears ... that there was a fun exchange at the end of the joint meeting between the Coeur d'Alene City Council and the Lake City Development Corporation today. Seems Councilman Dan Gookin asked the LCDC if there were any issues that would impede the…
The City of Coeur d’Alene Arts Commission is seeking artists for the McEuen Park Entry Arch. The renewed and revitalized McEuen Park has been a project long in the making for the community of Coeur d’Alene. This prime location in the heart of downtown has…
In this 2007 SR file photo, Lake City High principal John Brumley, left, is charged by Coeur d'Alene High principal Steve Casey as the two duke it out during halftime of the junior varsity game between their two schools. The schools have started a spirit…
A federal judge refused on Thursday to dismiss a Federal Election Commission lawsuit that accuses former Sen. Larry Craig of misusing $217,000 in campaign funds for his legal defense after his arrest in a 2007 airport bathroom sex sting. Craig had argued that the airport…
Supporters for gun rights gather outside the National Shooting Sports Foundation headquarters in Newtown, Conn., today. Search warrants released today revealed that an arsenal of weapons including guns, more than a thousand rounds of ammunition, a bayonet and several swords was seized at Adam Lanza's…
Huckleberries is still amused by appointed Trustee Brent Regan's reference to some challengers for area School Board elections as "recently minted conservatives." On his Facebook page, he listed himself among the "solid conservatives" along with Ann Seddon, Glorie Ward, Carol Goodman, Bjorn Handeen. Possibly Regan…
It somehow amazes me when the Ideologues are so wrapped up in their practice of preaching to the Choir, that they forget an important ingredient for good government. Yes, political philosophy is important, but only to a point. That point is first, that the philosophy…
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.
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