I see that Cindy encountered some troll trouble yesterday while subbing here at Huckleberries Online. But she was able to cast said troll into outer darkness -- and our cyber shire was spared yet again. Cindy remains a perfect sub in every way (except, perhaps,…
ACCESS Community Health and Research Center employee Salim Kazan unfurls an Affordable Care Act banner he is posting at the center in Dearborn, Mich., today. Today is the first day to shop on Michigan’s new insurance market created under the federal health care law. (AP…
On her Facebook page, candidate Amber Copeland posts: "I am excited for the candidate forum tomorrow. I am both confident and prepared. Feel free to come down to the Coeur d'Alene library's community room to view the forum live and educate yourself as a voter…
Idaho’s all-GOP congressional delegation scaled back constituent services Tuesday during the partial government shutdown. Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch say they will donate the portion of their $174,000 annual pay earned during the shutdown to charity. Crapo is keeping offices in Washington, D.C. and…
Facebook Friend Jeanne Helstrom followed and photographed these five deer for 3 blocks around 4 corners in her neighborhood, east of Coeur d'Alene High. They are mentioned in 2:59 Scanner Traffic item. 6:30 p.m. Hayden WalMart shoppers told to leave their grocery carts & evacuate…
Time 2 Vote ... Fay Wagstaff, of El Paso, Texas, sits on the front steps of the closed Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, this morning. Congress plunged the nation into a partial government shutdown Tuesday as a long-running dispute over President Barack…
Coeur d’Alene Police detectives are looking for the public’s assistance in identifying a male suspect who entered the Target store at 315 W. Canfield at 9:30 p.m. Saturday The male then hid in the restroom until after the store closed. Employees secured the store and…
Duane Rasmussen snapped this photo off Independence Point at around 7:30 Monday as James Flodin of Divers West and two other divers tested the water. Thom George, former Kootenai County Democratic Party chairman, is moving with his wife to China. He has started a blog…
Beech Grove, Indiana resident Joseph Lohman, 25, who served as a corporal in the U.S. Marines from 2008-2012, shows his concern over the government shutdown by holding an American flag upside down, a signal of distress, just north of I-465, where he has been since…
Democratic state Rep. Shirley Ringo says Idaho GOP Congressman Raul Labrador is among a group “holding the country hostage to serve their extreme agenda” by refusing to fund the government without delaying Obamacare. Labrador counters that the House Republicans proposal to delay the Affordable Care…
Things are busy at Idaho’s health insurance exchange today as enrollment opens, but the system hasn’t crashed as several other state exchanges around the country have reported. Instead, there are slowdowns, but everything’s functioning, and the state’s in-person assistants and insurance agents and brokers have…
Federal campgrounds and picnic areas have shut down across Idaho, the AP reports, due to the government shutdown forced by Congress' inability to pass a spending bill by a midnight deadline to keep the government functioning. Court cases are slowing down, 850 Idaho National Guard…
I saw the expanded seawall during my lunch walk along the waterfront. The sidewalk between City Beach and City Park is temporarily blocked. I had to walk through City Park to get to Northwest Boulevard. Unless you're tall, you can't see the North Idaho College…
Did you know you could win two movie tickets to area cinemas or a $50 gift card to the Davenport Hotel simply by entering our weekly news quiz? Test your knowledge of current events and put yourself in the running for Friday's drawings. Good luck!…
When a large contingent of older veterans and their caregivers showed up at the World War II Memorial on Tuesday, they were blocked from entering by metal barricades with signs warning that the park was closed because of the government shutdown. A few e-mails later,…
Former Coeur d'Alene police Chief Tom Cronin has joined the board of directors of Balance North Idaho. Here's the start of his bio, as it appears on the BNI Web page: Thomas J. Cronin retired after a 43 year career in law enforcement. Cronin served…
GirlFridayCDA (Re: Hydros might have sunk): You ... can't expect people to invest in an event that hasn't happened in 40 years and lets be honest...there was a lot of flip flopping on whether it was even going to happen. First time events have to…
On his Facebook wall, Joel Kennedy posts said he "believes he just set a World Record: Oldest Person to Read 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' for the First Time." Question: Which classic book are you afraid to admit that you've never read?
After being evacuated from their homes, residents of the apartment complex on the corner of 15th Street and Mullan Avenue watch as firefighters with the Coeur d'Alene Fire Department work to extinguish a fire in a second-floor apartment of Monday. Story here. (Coeur d'Alene Press…
On her Facebook wall, Cindy posted Monday: "I have battled evil trolls today at Huckleberries Online. I have written about hunting safety and buying distressed/foreclosed property. I have done 4 loads of laundry and got to hear about Sam's day, as well as checked in…
11:45 a.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activities report for Sept. 30-Oct. 1 here 11:28 a.m. CPD Blue checking on welfare of individual in 600 block of W. Emma, CdA. 11:03 a.m. 2-vehicle, non-injury crash reported @ Kootenai Emergency, 700 W. Ironwood, CdA. 10:47 a.m. Caller…
President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, about the government shutdown. Congress plunged the nation into a partial government shutdown Tuesday as a protracted dispute over Obama's signature health care law reached a boiling…
On its web page, the Idaho Democratic Party is asking voters seven quick questions about education. Among other things, they’re asking about teacher salaries and class sizes. They’re also asking about pre-kindergarten, a concept popular with many education and business leaders, but one that has…
On September 29 Pete Cenarrusa (pictured), died in Boise at the age of 95. The longest serving secretary of state not just in Idaho history but in all of American history, the former Speaker of the Idaho House and state legislator, a farmer-sheep rancher from…
The majority of blame for the U.S. Government shutdown is being put on the shoulders of Congress. However, members of the House of Representatives and the Senate will still be paid. Their pay is protected by the 27th Amendment to the Constitution. "No law, varying…
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.
