Servando Santamaria, of American Fine Arts Foundry, welds a solid bronze Actor, the Screen Actors Guild Award, on Thursday in Burbank, Calif. The Screen Actors Guild will be held on Sunday, Jan. 18, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
Cindy will be taking the reins of Huckleberries Online next week as I play host to family. Yeah, yeah, let the chorus begin re: how much vacation time I take each year. I didn't take a Christmas vacation in December. So I'm overdue. So many…
Saturday is National Milk day -- a date selected in honor of the first milk delivered in a bottle on Jan. 11, 1878. Here's some fun facts about milk from MooMilk.com: A cow drinks approximately 30 to 40 gallons of water each day! Mother cows…
Idaho’s education system saw no significant improvement in the past year, at least according to Education Week’s 2014 Quality Counts state report card. The annual report from the education-focused news outlet is frequently cited by all sides during education debates in Idaho. Education Week didn't…
A Seahawks' 12th man flag hangs from the Riverfront Park Clocktower after Spokane Mayor David Condon unfurled it in honor of the Seattle Seahawks on Friday at Riverfront Park in Spokane. The Seahawks face the New Orleans Saints Saturday in the second round of NFL…
Time 2 Vote ... Gonzaga head coach Mark Few, center, calls plays in the final minutes as the Portland Pilots beat the Gonzaga Bulldogs 82-73 in an NCAA college basketball game in Portland, Ore., Thursday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Greg Wahl-Stephens) Thursday Winner --…
4:45 p.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activities report for Jan. 9-10 here. 4:38 p.m. Driver of black Nissan Sentra weaving, driving w/o lights @ e/b I-90/MP 5 (Spokane Street). 4:36 p.m. Driver of white, half-ton Ford pickup possibly impaired @ w/b H53/Chase Road/Post Falls. 4:28…
Oopsy: This post originally said that the Reagan Republicans were asking members to contact Otter. An SOS from a Kuna man was issued on the Kootenai County Reagan Republican Facebook wall asking members to call Idaho Gov. Butch Otter, urging him to appoint Rod "Shut…
The city of Coeur d'Alene issued a press release to Huckleberries Online answering some of the questions that were raised here Thursday re: McEuen Field deadlines. These include: Q -- What are the penalties for the contractor failing to meet the May 2, 2014, deadline?…
Vince Grippi, my SR colleague who writes a superb online roundup re: Northwest sports daily, enjoyed watching the joy at the Chiles Center at the University of Portland after the Pilots upset the visiting Gonzaga Bulldogs. You can read Vinny's comments on that game and…
The Seahawks' 12th Man flag flies from the top of the Space Needle as viewed from Kerry Park, today in Seattle. The Seahawks will host the New Orleans Saints in an NFL football second-round playoff game on Saturday. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) Question: Which two…
Marc Stewart (RE: Extreme weather, seriously?): For those of you following my questions from yesterday regarding McEuen Park and possible delays in the project, I have news. Mayor Widmyer responded to my email this morning with a very nice note. He's working on getting the…
Marc Stewart (RE: Report: Most Idaho high school students skip college): On a personal note, I made a terrible decision 20 years ago. I dropped out of college and started working in journalism. I am working hard to correct that mistake and am currently taking…
A bufflehead duck skips across the water near Swantown Marina in Olympia, Wash., on Monday. (AP/Tacoma Tribune photo: Steve Bloom)
Expect a short session in Boise this year as lawmakers prepare for the primaries in May. Politics, not policy, will dominate the Legislature, says Rep. John Rusche (D-Lewiston). "The very conservative are battling the conservative," he says. "The legislative session is just going to be…
Stepping up the state’s physical education requirements may not be a marathon. But it isn’t going to be a sprint, either. A House Education subcommittee took a first run at the new P.E. requirements, but took no vote. The panel plans to take up the…
Enrollment in Idaho's insurance exchange has blossomed after the federal government in December fixed the website that residents use to sign up for health insurance coverage, with roughly 20,000 people buying individual and family coverage in time for it to begin Jan. 1. That's up…
SR Food Editor Adriana Janovich is looking for family recipes to try out. (SR photo) Great-grandma’s sugar pie. Grandpa’s tamales. Mom’s gingerbread. Dad’s sloppy joes. Whether the recipe came from a relative, the Old Country or a faded 3-by-5 card, you’ve made it tons of…
12:03 p.m. Driver of dark-green mini-van possibly DUI @ s/b H95/MP 442 (Chilco). 11:48 a.m. Possible drunk man on ATV is causing problems in downtown Coeur d'Alene. 11:47 a.m. A sick animal is reported @ 400 block of S17th/CdA. 11:39 a.m. A dead animal is…
Thursday Poll: A majority of Hucks Nation wants the city of Coeur d'Alene to enforce the May 2 deadline for completing work on the new McEuen Field. 74 of 147 respondents (50.34%) took that position. However, 40 of 147 respondents (27.21%) said they would be…
"Thanks to all who weighed in on how to not succumb to the cold virus, but I found the quickest way to get rid of it was to give it to my husband" -- Cindy, via Facebook. Question: Don't you wish you could give a…
Cuba's former President Fidel Castro attends the inauguration of the cultural center, Studio Kcho Romerillo, Laboratory for Art, in Havana, Cuba, late Wednesday. Castro has made his first public appearance in nine months, attending the opening of the art studio in the Cuban capital. Castro,…
Idaho's hateful treatment of wolves has reached disturbing new lows in recent weeks. Late last month the sadly misnamed "Idaho for Wildlife" held a two-day "predator derby" out of Salmon, Idaho, offering prizes for the most coyotes and wolves killed and the biggest wolf taken.…
GOP activist and former Senate Majority Leader Rod Beck, R-Boise, tops the list of three nominees to replace former Rep. Mark Patterson, R-Boise, reports Idaho Statesman columnist Dan Popkey. Beck, who served in the Senate in the ‘80s and ‘90s, has clashed with Gov. Butch…
The vast majority of Idaho students graduate from high school, but fewer than half continue on to college, Education Week announced Thursday in its annual Quality Counts report. Education Week, a nonprofit national newspaper on K-12 education, is considered the authoritative source on public education…
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.
