After two challengers announced campaigns to replace him this week, Idaho GOP Chairman Barry Peterson closed the work week affirming that he's still the boss. In an email Friday morning, Peterson reminded fellow Republicans that the party's Rules Committee held a special meeting to clarify…
In his 16 years as Idaho’s state treasurer, Ron Crane has built up the state’s credit rating, launched a popular college savings program and a free annual control-your-finances conference for women, and helped create a bond bank that lets local school bonds and other local-government…
Two horses from Budweiser sit on display as the crowds observe them Thursday at the Super 1 in Hayden. Story here. (Coeur d'Alene Press photo: Mike Curry) Idaho Records/SR PFPD: Missing 11YO boy found/KHQ Coeur d'Alene whittles down budget/Jeff Selle, Press Breakdown of county clerk's…
Carrie Gridley, owner of CG Salon at Charlotte's Web (2nd & Indiana), snapped this photo of a recent Coeur d'Alene sunset. Sam Crawford posted it on his Facebook page -- and drew my attention to it via email. Posts Sam: "Coeur d'Alene is spectacular in…
... rocker Ted Nugent?
Eight migrant children from Central America apprehended at the Mexican border already have been sent to Idaho, according to a U.S. Health & Human Services Report quoted late yesterday by the Associated Press, though they’ve gone to sponsors, not to state custody; that means they’ve…
Trustee Tom Hearn of the Coeur d'Alene School District took critic Mary Jo Finney to task after the county Prosecutor Barry McHugh dismissed Finney's complaint that Hearn and two other trustees had violated the state's open meeting law: I could say a lot about this…
Why did the Coeur d’Alene Tribe cancel the concert of super-bigot and hack rocker Ted Nugent? Because the left hates guns. Some people thought it was because a tribe inviting The Nuge to play for them was a bit like the NAACP inviting David Duke.…
In the Tony Award-winning musical “Avenue Q,” no topic is too taboo to skewer: race relations, poverty, religion, sexuality, politics, pornography. That’s nothing new – shows like “Rent” and “Spring Awakening” have tackled most of the same issues – but the twist here is that…
Local veterans are hopping mad re: a snarky response from Cathyanne Nonini re: a request that her husband, state Sen. Bob Nonini, attend a presentation re: a veteran's home being located in North Idaho. Cathyanne Nonini's responded to a request from Len Crosby, the legislative…
Ernie Power, camp host at Silverwood RV Park, cleans up debris Thursday from surrounding trees that blew onto his RV after a storm fell near 100 trees and caused damage to dozens of vehicles Wednesday night. (Coeur d'Alene Press photo: Shawn Gust) John Symons couldn't…
In his weekly Cheers & Jeers column, Marty Trillhaase/Lewiston Tribune gives jeers to ...to the Idaho Fish and Game Commission. The commission is opposing creating a Boulder-White Clouds National Monument. "Without state sovereignty, you won't have hunting, fishing and trapping in any meaningful way," said…
From Saturday’s front page; “I don’t think that much water (120K gallons/day) was anticipated by Team McEuen.” If that is not a giant red flag I don’t know what is. The Team should have known EXACTLY how many gallons per day this pad would take…
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.
