We're finally on the home stretch of the race for control of Coeur d'Alene City Hall. It has been a wild ride. At this point, I don't think there will be any more dirty tricks pulled from up people's sleeves. It'll be nice to go…
We'll see tomorrow which side wins the day in terms of controlling City Hall for the next four years -- the RecallCdA (now ReclaimCdA) crowd or the Decline to Sign (Balance North Idaho) crowd. The Recall effort failed last spring. Three of four council members,…
My first introduction to the unseemly sideline of youth sports happened at a U6 soccer game. The players were in kindergarten, an age when the goal flags at the end of the field hold as much appeal as the soccer ball and after-game snacks are…
Despite forecasts of "an extremely snowy winter in the North Country" by the Old Farmers Almanac and other weather prognosticators, Randy Mann and I see only slightly above normal snowfall this winter across the region since we are now in a calmer 'La Nada' sea-surface…
Singer Kris Kristofferson signs the tattoo of Janis Joplin fan Rick Biehler of Regina, Canada, at a ceremony honoring Joplin with a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) Question: Am I the only ha-huge…
5:03 p.m. Someone has suffered a shoulder pulled out of socket on Wide River Road/Post Falls. 5:02 p.m. ISP officer needs backup to take 2 juveniles to welfare department after arresting a parent. 4:46 p.m. Back-up help en route to Cataldo residence where officer has…
"Bill and I went geocaching yesterday on a wet, wet day," posts Marianne Love/Slight Detour. "It wasn't too bad because we donned our raingear and hiked only one-half mile in to the cache site in the Deer Creek area northeast of Bonners Ferry." More here.…
At approximately 3:35 p.m. today, Coeur d’Alene Police officers responded to the 400 block of Idaho for the report of a kidnapping. A woman reported she was taken at gunpoint from her home in Dalton Gardens at 10 this morning and held by a man…
Joe Kunka, the dark horse in the three-way race for Coeur d'Alene mayor, told Huckleberries a few minutes ago that he's received dozens of phone calls asking him to drop out of the race. A conservative Republican he knows, named Bob, left a message on…
In civics class they taught her, quote: " Good citizens should always vote"; So each Election Day she goes, though sometimes she may hold her nose. The Bard of Sherman Avenue (AP/Idaho Press-Tribune photo: Adam Eschbach)
In her latest newsletter, Mary Souza claims the two local newspapers are coming after her, "a regular, everyday citizen, wife and mother of four?" Then, she does one of her connect-the-dots exercises that we've all come to enjoy: "The CdA Press, as we all know,…
Coeur d’Alene Police detectives took a 40 year-old male into protective custody in a case involving a suspicious package left at Congressman Raul Labrador’s office this morning. The male whose name will not be released was interviewed by detectives, who decided he needed mental attention.…
Mayor Sandi Bloem talks with Coeur d'Alene Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Steve Wilson at the Coeur d'Alene Library on Monday. (SR photo: Scott Maben) The C-SPAN television crews fanning out in Kootenai County this week will explore the area's fur trading, logging and…
In another show of, ahem, good sportsmanship this toxic Coeur d'Alene city elections cycle, Reagan Republican candidate Sharon Hebert dubs her opponent as "Git Along Go Along" Woody McEvers. She claims she will have more of an open mind than Councilman McEvers. Do you think…
Here’s another sign that the 2014 Legislature may take another look at the Common Core standards approved three years ago. State Sen. Steven Thayn has co-written a letter with Madison School District Superintendent Geoffrey Thomas, saying the state should drop the new Idaho Core Standards…
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho police on Monday were investigating a suspicious package found at the office of Sen. James Risch (R-ID). In a statement posted on the department's Facebook page, the Coeur d’Alene Police Department said "officers have responded to the report of a suspicious package…
Looks like Jeff Tyler has taken over for Jeff Ward as bloviator in chief for the Reagan Republicans. Today, he's grousing about a question I posed at the request of the moderator. I submitted 2 questions, including one asking candidates what they thought of political…
In some cases, the Internet is incredibly predictable. Shortly after Wind River Outdoor World posted this photo on its Facebook page on Oct. 28, the photo has been galloping around the Web for different reasons on pro-wolf and anti-wolf sites. The Facebook caption says: “A…
11:42 a.m. CPD officer approaching suspicious envelope in Congressman Labrador's office, but not touching it. 11:36 a.m. A suspicious male is reported in Nettleton Gulch/Maple Leaf, CdA. 11:07 a.m. Avista wants officers to shut down Seltice Way, near Grand Mill (west of Holiday Inn Express)…
Here's the campaign flyer that I received over the weekend from Noel Adam's campaign. He did land one solid political punch in pointing out that Kiki Miller didn't vote in the City Council election two years ago. Adam's whole campaign seems to focus on the…
"Location, location, location" often is the key to success for a business. And the location of the new WinCo store as the first commercial place at the south end of Ramsey Road is key as Ramsey leads to many of the area's new neighborhoods. WinCo…
Weekend Poll: Someone monkeyed with the HucksOnline poll over the weekend. On two different occasions, over a half hour time period -- Friday night and Sunday night, Mary Souza received about 75 votes each, which indicates a single individual was manufacturing votes. Steve Widmyer had…
The 2013 U.S. Capitol Christmas tree is lowered onto a semi-truck in the Colville National Forest in Usk, Wash., on Friday. The tree will serve as the nation's Christmas tree in the nation's capitol this yuletide. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka) Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SR A…
Caver Hater asked to see the other side of the Fillios' attack flyer. It's a little hard to read.
Seems this is what passes for intelligent political dialogue in the Chris Fillios camp in the closing days of the two-way race for Coeur d'Alene City Council seat No. 2 (currently held by Mike Kennedy). I received this and several other attack-mode mailers from 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.
