I'm delighted for you Seattle Seahawks fans out there and the entire Pacific Northwest today. The Seahawks proved they were the best that the NFL had to offer this year. As a 49er fan, I'd say that the real Super Bowl was played two weeks…
Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll, center, celebrates with Seattle Seahawks owner Paul Allen, left, and general manager John Schneider, right, after the NFL Super Bowl XLVIII football game against the Denver Broncos Sunday in East Rutherford, N.J. The Seahawks won 43-8. (AP Photo/Ted S.…
Facebook Friend Cis Gors writes that the jokes are starting: How are Papa John's and Peyton Manning different? Papa John's delivers during the Super Bowl. Question: Have you heard any Super Bowl jokes yet?
Idaho’s state Board of Education and all eight of its public college and university presidents came out unanimously and emphatically against a new guns-on-campus bill Monday, but lawmakers are pressing forward anyway, and the bill now appears likely to pass. “I wouldn’t bring it up…
Time 2 Vote ... The family of Billy Standley, of Mechanicsburg, Ohio, carried out his wish to be buried on his 1967 Harley Davidson motorcycle Friday, burying him in a large Plexiglas casket at Fairview Cemetery in Crawford County, Ohio. Standley's family said he'd been…
Coeur d’Alene city street crews have been out in full force clearing streets as the third snow storm of the season hit the region over the weekend. Street superintendent Tim Martin said his crews focused first on major arterials and hills, which included the application…
5:03 p.m. Keystone beer cans flying out the back of older green-and-silver pickup @ w/b I-90/Yellowstone Trail. 4:45 p.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activities report for Feb. 2-3 here. 4:37 p.m. A gray Toyota Highlander has hit a fence @ 3480 W. Hayden Ave/Hayden. 4:26…
Senate President Pro Tem Brent Hill (R-Rexburg) is blocked from entering the Senate chambers by Demonstrators at the Idaho Statehouse in Boise today. The protestors are advocating adding gender identity and sexual orientation to the state's human rights ordinance, but have thus far been unsuccessful…
Nils Rosdahl, former North Idaho College journalism instructor, dropped off his book of Spokesman-Review political cartoon drawn by William Morris, circa 1908. A number of the cartoons are about Teddy Roosevelt, who was considering a run for a third term. Some are outdated, of course.…
I’ve written here previously about the shortcomings of supposedly “gun free” zones: that places where one is unable to carry a gun are usually the places one is most likely to be shot with one. The reason for this is simple: criminals care not a…
Arpie: I'd point out that Dave predicted the first score of the game last week with the cutline pic of a ball seeming to hit Peyton Manning in the head (Parting Shot, Jan. 24). That's just what happened on the first play of the game.…
The 43 people arrested in the “Add the Words” protest this morning were processed in a 4th floor conference room of the Capitol, then released with misdemeanor trespassing citations. Asked what their fine will be, protester Hilary Rayhill, 46, said, “We’re going to go to…
On his Eye on Shanghai blog, Thom George posts: "Melinda, James, and I spent New Year’s Day 2014 walking around People’s Park, East Nanjing Road and The Bund. This man was taking a break from keeping Shanghai’s streets clean." Thom George has resolved to take…
Bruno Mars performs during the halftime show of the NFL Super Bowl XLVIII football game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos on Sunday in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) Question: I didn't see any of the Super Bowl halftime show. How would…
The St Vincent de Paul North Idaho Warming Center is going to continue to be open tonight through Sunday night, Feb. 9. Future nights will be extended as extreme cold persists. As temperatures continue below 25 degrees, St Vincent’s shelter will always be open from…
If you want something to make you as cranky as Chris Christie consider the fact that the National Football League, where teams are owned by millionaires and billionaires like the Seahawks’ Paul Allen, is officially registered with the IRS “as a 501(c)(6) nonprofit organization.” A…
This weekend, I sent my dear friends Jay and Jake up to the new Thai/Fusion eatery Asian Twist, located in the Albertsons complex in Coeur d'Alene (226 W Ironwood Dr.). I wanted to join them, but alas and alack, I was stuck at work pouring…
In 1998, a speeding bus plunged off a cliff in Bolivia and forever altered Linda Lawrence Hunt’s life. Her daughter, Krista Hunt Ausland, was aboard the bus with her husband, Aaron, and their puppy, Choclo. The couple had come to Bolivia to serve a three-year…
CSB Chairman Tom Hearn: The School Board takes the report quite seriously as well as the bullying problem in our schools. We invited Mr. Wessler into the schools to study the problem and the Board and administration will look at policies and programs to address…
Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin (89) dives into the end zone for a touchdown against Denver Broncos free safety Mike Adams (20) during the second half of the NFL Super Bowl XLVIII football game Sunday in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) DFO: I…
We've confirmed that two young children (descendants of the CDA tribe) drown in this fishing pond outside Plummer -- KXLY tweet. H/T: Cindy Hval
Weekend Poll: A plurality of Hucks Nation watched Seattle Whip Denver in Super Bowl XLVIII with family. 86 of 215 respondents (40%) said they watched the NFL finale with family members. 35 of 215 respondents (16.28%) were guests at a party; 28 (13.02%) watched alone;…
11:59 a.m. Possible shoplifter reported at Millers Harvest Foods/Spirit Lake. 11:43 a.m. Male complains to KCSD that his ex-wife won't let him see children. 11:30 a.m. CPD officer told that signal lights @ 5th/Sherman, downtown Spokane, have been out for a week. 11:16 a.m. 2…
Philip Seymour Hoffman poses for a portrait at The Collective and Gibson Lounge Powered by CEG, during the Sundance Film Festival, in Park City, Utah. Hoffman, who won the Oscar for best actor in 2006 for his portrayal of writer Truman Capote in "Capote," was…
In a special meeting this morning, Idaho’s State Board of Education voted unanimously to oppose SB 1254, the bill to allow guns on college campuses in certain circumstances. “We have to protect our students,” said Milford Terrell, a board member from Boise, according to a…
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.
