Telemedicine – doctors treating patients over the phone, online or by videoconferencing – is a growing subset of the health care system. But Idaho’s medical licensing board doesn’t approve and earlier this year punished a doctor for prescribing a common antibiotic over the phone. The…
The common joke on Twitter Saturday morning, after Idaho announced that the NCAA had slapped its football program with a 2014 bowl ban, was the Vandals didn’t need to be ineligible to be out of the running for the postseason. Idaho is coming off consecutive…
Republican candidates in Idaho’s primary are being surveyed to gauge their fealty to the state GOP’s platform, which includes a call to repeal Obamacare and resist implementation. But party officials should take their cue from the realists among them. While they may not like the…
Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA), left, and Jim Risch (R-ID), right, watch a demonstration of an industrial cutter by Ben Toews of Bullet Tools in Hayden Friday. Toews' company makes a line of cutting tools for siding and flooring and half of sales are exported overseas.…
Today I’d like to make an endorsement. And that is to return Matt Shea. Um, not to office. I realize the Republican representative for Washington’s Legislative District 4 is up for re-election this year, but I don’t make political endorsements. When I say return Matt…
Idaho is doing well in another Estately Blog poll. Remember? Estately named Idaho as one of the states that would survive a zombie apocalypse. After all, most Spud Staters are armed to the teeth and know survivability skills. Now, Estately ranks Idaho No. 4 –…
Next week, we'll begin the countdown to the soft opening of the overhauled McEuen Park. I can't wait to see the faces of the children as they enjoy their colorful new playground for the first time next Friday. But that's still a week off. We…
City of Coeur d’Alene spokesman Keith Erickson talked about the finished areas of McEuen Park in Coeur d’Alene on Thursday. The city plans to open part of the rebuilt park on Friday and the rest of it shortly before Memorial Day. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka)…
People gather around the 1969 Ford Shelby Mustang GT500 Cobra Jet owned by the Larry Brown before it was to be auctioned today in Centre Hall, Pa. George Cowfer of Clearfield County paid $280,000 for the car on Friday, more than the $200,000 the car…
I'm more than a little amazed that the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee has made such a big deal re: allowing members to know what's on its books. As a voluntary organization, it should be willing to open its books to any member, especially precinct…
Top Post of the day ... I've been trying to think of a way that Huckleberries Online could offer a way to our friends at the Kootenai County GOP Central Committee who are trying to conduct a legitimate audit of the local party's books. Among…
Time 2 Vote ... A statue of the Duke of Wellington in Glasgow, Scotland, is rarely seen without a traffic cone on its head. It started as a joke by students decades ago but is now an almost permanent symbol of local humor. You write…
5:25 p.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activities report for April 24-25 here. 5:11 p.m. Transient in red jacket eating grass & playing near eastern entrance to Hayden WalMart. 4:51 p.m. Driver of small, 2-door car almost hit vehicles head on while passing @ s/b H41/MP…
Twin Falls Times-News Editor Autumn Phillips moderates the 2nd Congressional District debate between GOP candidates U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson, left, and challenger Bryan Smith at Canyon Ridge High School Friday in Twin Falls. (AP Photo/Times-News, Ashley Smith) CWI suspends culinary arts program/KTVB Off-duty Liberty Lake…
The North Idaho Political Action Committee has endorsed a slate of state, legislative and Kootenai County courthouse candidates, in a release sent to Huckleberries Online moments ago. Brad Corkill of NIPAC told HucksOnline that this represents the first round of his PAC's endorsements. NIPAC raised…
On her Facebook page, Cindy posts: "Yesterday I was out at Mead High School to cover a new soccer program that pairs general ed kids with disabled students. A handsome young man came up and introduced himself. "What grade are you in?" I ask. "I'm…
A Berry Picker overheard an interesting snippet of a conversation that took place between two candidates as they exited the shindig at the Post Falls American Legion Hall earlier today, featuring Congressman Raul Labrador and state Sen. Bob Nonini, R-Coeur d'Alene. Appointed County Clerk Jim…
In this 2009 courtesy photo from Hamilton studio, Julia Keefe pays tribute to the late blues singer Mildred Bailey, who was from Spokane. Bailey, an enrolled Coeur d'Alene Indian who lived in Desmet as a child, was known as "Mrs. Swing" in the 1930s and…
... Idaho Sen. Russ Fulcher, R-Meridian, became my 1,458th Twitter follower moments ago (and I followed him back). Meanwhile, Democrat Shirley Ringo was my 1,456th Twitter follower. The more the merrier. I post links to my top Huckleberries Online blog items on Twitter, if you…
Have you heard that Cliven Bundy has been offered the role of patriarch on a new reality show? True. It's called "Schmuck Dynasty" -- Mike Kennedy, via Facebook.
Coeur d'Alene Mayor Steve Widmyer shoots hoops at the new outdoors basketball court at McEuen Park this morning. The eastern end of the park will be open May 2. (Photo:Coeur d'Alene Today) With the soft opening of the eastern portion of McEuen Park just one…
Former GOP Rep. Dolores Crow, pictured, says she’s been agitated since last week when Rep. Lawerence Denney accused outgoing Idaho Secretary of State Ben Ysursa of a conflict of interest for endorsing Phil McGrane as his successor. “I just couldn’t sleep well until I get…
On March 29, 1986, Pat Benatar took the stage at the old Spokane Coliseum. Once there, Benatar – the Spokane Chronicle’s reviewer called her a pixie in black leather – claimed her spot in the rock pantheon with a voice as big as her body…
Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, pictured, claimed during a Friday interview on CNN that he didn’t understand the bipartisan outrage over his recent comments suggesting the "Negro people" were “better off” as slaves, and blamed the perception that he's racist on Martin Luther King Jr. for…
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.
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