Another week dawns in the land of Huckleberries. We have one more week to vet the school and hospital district races before the ballots are counted. I haven't gotten pounded with Reagan Republican propaganda yet. So I suspect that's coming this weekend. I'll give this…
On his Facebook wall, outdoors photographer Robin Loznak of Kellogg, Ore., simply calls this one: "Happy Mother's Day." A Facebook Friend of his commented that this is exactly how motherhood feels some time. You can see more of Robin's terrific photography here. Question: Does this…
Item: Popular psychologist Joyce Brothers dead at age 85/USA Today Item: Barbara Walters, 83, announces retirement on 'The View'/Newsday Question: Which woman had a greater impact on your life?
5:29 p.m. Target management asks that disorderly male be trespassed from grounds. 5:18 p.m. Neighbor reports screaming neighbor on porch in 6900 block of Heritage/Rathdrum. 5:15 p.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activities report for May 12-13 here. 5:09 p.m. Deputy en route to investigate possible…
Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Idaho Sen. Jim Risch hold a press conference today at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise. With another extreme Western fire season predicted, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Interior Secretary Sally Jewell are visiting the National…
On Sunday, Stickman (who provided this photo) commented: "the Flying Fortress has been flying around Coeur d'Alene the past two days. What a thrill to see it. It flew low over the city 30 minutes ago and a few hours ago. I'm sure once or…
Time to vote Britain's Prince Harry kneels down at the bottom of a pyramid of cheerleaders, U.S. and British military officials and near the U.S. Air Force Academy mascot "The Bird" at the academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., Sunday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Rick…
Coeur d'Alene School Trustee Brent Regan discusses his association with Gary Brown's Reach America organization in a comment on the Coeur d'Alene Press Online site: Some years ago, Gary Brown and Tyler Smotherman approached me for financial support for a youth leadership program called “Reach…
On her Facebook page, Christa Hazel calls out appointed Trustee Brent Regan for his ties to an organization, Reach America, that tells followers to pull their children from public schools: "As a Christian public school parent, I'm not sure why my opponent is distancing himself…
One of the many interesting asides in the lengthy High Country News article about the conservative California emigres who have taken over Kootenai County politics is one about former county GOP chairman Tina Jacobson. Who told reporter Sierra Crane-Murdoch that she quit her post on…
This combination of Associated Press file photos shows from left, O.J. Simspon on Oct. 3, 1995, after the jury acquitted him in the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman in Los Angeles; Simpson, center, in court on the first day his trial for…
Facebook Friend Shirley Stafford Thagard posts: "Probably been in the woods too long. Had lunch in a theater today while watching "Gatsby". Not a hot dog. A real meal with a waiter, cloth napkin and silverware!!!!!! Buckhead theater in Atlanta! Maybe the future of the…
My extended family in Coeur d'Alene had a three-grandma Sunday for Mother's Day yesterday, celebrating in two different shifts with my wife's mother, Dorothy, my brother-in-law's mother from Boise, Hazel, and my mother, Eva. All three women are slowing down quite a bit, especially my…
Rain thinned out the crowds along the Coeur d'Alene waterfront during the noon hour today, as sports scribe Greg Lee and I made our regular three-mile jaunt. No Toms peeping out of the brush in the "Hobo Jungle" area, just north of Lewis-Clark State College/University…
Sen. Max Baucus says the Senate Finance Committee will investigate the IRS targeting conservative political groups, joining a growing list of congressional panels looking into the matter. The Finance Committee would be the first in the Democratic-controlled Senate to announce an investigation. The Montana Democrat…
I'm trying to figure out how to get my hands on a High Country News story that talks of the takeover of North Idaho politics by conservative activists from California. It's behind a firewall. It begins: If anyone in Kootenai County could have predicted the…
Sorta weird to turn on KVNI on my wag to work this AM -- and hear Colin Cowherd (formerly of Eastern Washington U) doing his smack down on national sports figures. Huckleberries mentioned Friday that the parent ship, KXLY, apparently has cut the AM news/talk…
Lakes Highway Commissioner Monty Montgomery once had a fleet of trucks in Southern California. This is the last working truck of that once large fleet. Sunday he spent part of the afternoon polishing his remaining work truck. Montgomery who once competed on race tracks in…
11:49 a.m. Female's daughter (11:48 item) pokes herself w/needle while trying to inject mom. 11:48 a.m. 57 YO female w/allergy history stung by bee @ 15100 block of Sedona/Rathdrum. 11:29 a.m. 84YO male bleeding uncontrollably from head injury suffered in fall on 21st/PF. 11:28 a.m.…
Weekend Poll: 137 of 215 respondents (63.72%) said they didn't think Coeur d'Alene was a "college town"? Another 57 of 215 respondents (26.51%) said it wasn't a college town but it's getting there. Only 20 (9.3%) said the Lake City was a college town. 1…
Sure, it’s the kids who score the goals and make the saves. But if you want the safety net that captures how all those games go on smoothly, including the plethora of them at the Bill Eisenwinter Hot Shot Tournament here this weekend, it’s the…
Gone are some of the developers with big ideas who tried to tap into Spirit Lake during the building boom. That situation, along with banks’ eagerness lately to move inventory that has been sitting idle due to the recession, fueled Marc Kroetch to breathe new…
The Idaho Freedom Foundation’s report on the 2013 Legislature says 64 of 105 Idaho lawmakers, including House Speaker Scott Bedke and Senate President Pro Tem Brent Hill, “favored expansion of government or statism” based on an analysis of 149 votes. The 148-page “Freedom Index Report”…
Shortly after moving into a new apartment, a neighbor allowed Omar Abdulrazaq to use his computer to email his family in the Middle East on Feb. 18. Later, Omar would purchase his own television, slightly smaller than this one. Omar is one of 500 Iraqis…
YouTube video of Reach America's "The Thaw." Gary Brown wouldn't tell The Press anything more than he told a Fox News reporter about the genesis of a video in which North Idaho school-age children say that because of their Christian beliefs, they've endured ridicule and…
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.
