From Facebook Friend Brian Cronin: "I've bit my tongue on this long enough. The glorification of high school football, as evidenced by the TV news coverage on Friday nights, represents the many ways in which we prioritize the wrong things (and send very clear messages…
A company hauling human waste from Spokane into Idaho as fertilizer has sparked a legal fight with the Coeur d’Alene Tribe. Gobers Pumping and Repair, with business partner St. Isidore Farms, will have to prove that injecting 54,000 gallons of sewage from septic tanks and…
I'm probably just behaving like a silly Danish senior citizen, but a reader offended me the other day. A fellow elder emailed me what he considered a joke about black people and brown people going to heaven where they stole the Pearly Gates.I was doubly…
Idaho lawmakers are pressuring state schools superintendent Tom Luna to rework the terms of a Wi-Fi contract he stubbornly authorized in July, but the larger questions of why this deal was done remain unanswered. Lawmakers were stunned when they learned that Luna was about to…
In Friday’s paper, letter writer Geoffrey B. Clark declared it “is past time to end anonymous posts.” He’s right. Starting Sunday, Sept. 15, we will no longer have anonymous commenters at IdahoStatesman.com. For years, we have struggled with the dichotomy between our print commenters, who…
Artist Harold Balazs talked about his upcoming show in his studio near his home in Mead, Wash.,on Tuesday. Balazs’ joint show with painter Mel McCuddin, opening Friday at The Art Spirit Gallery in Coeur d’Alene, will hint at this new direction. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka)…
As you know, Coeur d'Alene and Post Falls will have challenged races for all but one council seat (in Post Falls), with three-way races featured for the mayor's seat and three council seats in Coeur d'Alene. Late Friday afternoon, the Kootenai County Clerk's Office provided…
Item: Cost of counsel: Price of public education increasingly includes legal fees/Maureen Dolan, Coeur d'Alene Press More Info: The Coeur d'Alene School District's recent consideration of whether to privatize school busing went on for several months, and it included 64 hours of legal work with…
In the “Believe It or Not” Department, the Coeur d’Alene School Board will decide whether Mark Twain’s “The Prince and the Pauper” is appropriate reading in eighth-grade classrooms. Before you dial the district office, however, there’s more to the story. Seems the Coeur d’Alene School…
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.
