Dan Gookin (re: How to heal Coeur d'Alene's wounds): I had an interview today. It was with Mike Gridley and the topic was Vision 2030. Mike fired away a slew of questions about the greater Coeur d'Alene area, what we do well, where we could…
Here’s what Doug Clark observed on Friday, when he took a State of the (Spokane) Downtown tour. 11:03 a.m. – Barely away from the newspaper, my travels lead me to two large and foot-flattened piles of excrement (Human? Wildebeest?) plopped in the middle of the…
The current state of education in Idaho could be condensed into one of those melodramatic movie trailers: “In a world where 60 percent of jobs require some post-secondary education, fewer than 40 percent of Idahoans have any credentials beyond a high school diploma.” In fact,…
Although charitable organizations are allowed to do some lobbying without risking their tax benefits, the Idaho Freedom Foundation actively pushes and opposes legislation on dozens of issues every session in ways that more closely resemble a full-on lobbying group. “If Wayne Hoffman can call a…
Seattle Seahawks fans cheer as rain pours down during a severe weather delay in the first half of an NFL football game between the Seattle Seahawks and the San Francisco 49ers, Sunday in Seattle. The Seahawks stifled the 49ers 29-3. (AP Photo/John Froschauer) Also: Overnight…
At times, I shake my head in awe that anything gets done in this country. It's bad enough that we have so many flea-ridden, drug-addled, Occupy Wall Street-types who, apparently jobless, find the time to protest the movement of megaloads over U.S. Highway 12 on…
‘Coeur d’Alene” opened at Northland Pioneer College in Snowflake, Ariz., last week, with former Coeur d’Alene Mayor Steve Judy in the audience. Never heard of the play? Well, neither had Huckleberries until a blog reader sent a link. Dramatist Lisa Jayne’s play explores the conflicting…
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.
