At CNN Tech, Doug Gross reports: Online comments are on the way out. Influential tech blog Re/code announced Thursday that it has shut off the comment forums on its story pages. Instead, the website is steering commenters to social media. "We thought about this decision…
An Indian taco from the Coeur d'Alene Casino Resort Hotel's Red Tail Bar. (Inlander photo: Young Kwak)
A mumps outbreak at the University of Idaho has prompted the state Department of Health & Welfare to advise students to use their winter breaks to make sure they're caught up on vaccinations, including the MMR vaccine, which is for measles, mumps and rubella. More…
House Speaker John Boehner said Friday he has sued the Obama Administration in federal court over its decisions to make changes to the President's health care law, which congressional Republicans argue were unconstitutional. The move was expected for months -- the GOP-controlled House of Representatives…
In the draft minutes from the City Council meeting Tuesday, City Clerk Renata McLeod reports: "Gregg Johnson, Coeur d’Alene, wanted to bring awareness to the City Council regarding the mid-town proposed housing development by the Housing Company and LCDC. He stated that the development should…
It was a souper success. Nearly 1,000 people trudged across a snow-covered parking lot at the Kootenai County Fairgrounds to attend St. Vincent de Paul's fifth annual Souport the End of Homelessness fundraiser. "When I heard they were doing it in the Jacklin Building, I…
Cindy Wooden, a Sandpoint High graduate and senior Vatican correspondent, is seen talking with Pope Francis aboard the Papal jet recently. Cindy has written a book about the pontiff, titled: "Pope Francis: A Guide to God's Time." (Photo by Paul Haring from Cindy Wooden's Facebook…
From Swing Shift of Post Falls Police Department: "A domestic battery report was taken for an incident that occurred one month ago. Complainant stated he waited one month to file the report because he thought things would work out with the other half."
“These are troubling times for America, when the President of the United States by executive decree seizes the Constitutional lawmaking power that belongs to the first branch of government. Regardless of the issue or who is president, every American should be deeply distressed by this…
A former Idaho state trooper pleaded guilty today to charges including petty theft and malicious injury to property in exchange for other criminal charges against him being dropped. Daniel Charles Howard, who resigned from the Idaho State Police on Nov. 14 after 19 years on…
11:15 a.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activities report for Nov. 20-21 here. 10:58 a.m. PFPD officer reports "wiped-out" chain-link fence @ Walnut/Poleline & wonders if crash report filed. 10:49 a.m. KCSDeputy is investigating report of child abuse in Hayden area. 10:42 a.m. Someone is having…
Laura Moreno, of Nampa, hugs her good friend Krista Busmante after watching President Obama's speech on immigration reform Thursday at the Hispanic Cultural Center in Nampa. "It's really big because families won't get separated," said Moreno. Moreno was nine years old when she came into…
Wayne Hoffman/Idaho Freedom Foundation columnizes: "Imagine an 8-ounce glass of water on a kitchen counter. The glass is almost full. I could, as a matter of public policy, declare that the glass should hold 16 ounces of water. But my declaration won’t make the glass…
In his latest Johnson Post, Marc Johnson writes: "In an engaging and provocative new book – To Make Men Free – Boston College historian Heather Cox Richardson tells the story of the creation of the Republican Party – Lincoln’s party – as an activist, results…
Here's some of the whereases from a resolution to be discussed by the Kootenai County GOP Central Committee (Tuesday, Nov. 25), asking the state GOP to disavow its appointment of former U.S. senator Larry Craig as finance chairman:
Dan Sisson, a historian and EWU professor, stands in front of his home, which he has been building for 12 years, to look like Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. See story below. (SR photo: Colin Mulvany)
Thursday Poll: A majority of Hucks Nation doesn't give to the United Way. 59 of 115 respondents (51.3%) said they never give to the United Way. 31 of 115 (26.96%) said they occasionally give to the United Way. 25 of 115 (21.74%) said they give…
"Mom, do you think Bill Cosby is a rapist? I don't want Bill Cosby to be a rapist. I LIKE Bill Cosby." Conversations my son starts before I've finished my first cup of coffee -- Cindy Hval.
Lydia Tanner, the dirt-bike road warrior for Bikemag.com, fell in love with the trails around Sandpoint, Idaho, writing: "Sandpoint, Idaho, is home to some of the most badass folks I’ve ever met. On skis, on bikes, wherever; over the years I’ve stopped feeling too surprised…
Idaho GOP Rep. Raul Labrador, in an interview airing now on NPR, says he thinks the president’s planned executive action on immigration is illegal, and while shying away from talk of impeachment, had these suggestions on how congressional Republicans might respond: “Well one of the…
Writing in the Coeur d'Alene Press, state Rep. Judy Boyle, R-Midvale: As a conservative state legislator from rural Idaho, member of the House Education Committee, supporter of the Idaho Education Network (IEN), and lifelong Republican, I have been carefully watching this issue since 2009 when…
In his weekly Cheers & Jeers column, editorialist Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune jeers ... state Rep. Thyra Stevenson, R-Lewiston: "Losing re-election to Democrat Dan Rudolph did not diminish her legendary sense of entitlement. Consider her appearance at the North Idaho Chamber of Commerce…
Post Falls High School junior Taylor Demute shares a laugh Thursday as she carries donated blankets at the school. Members of the PFHS Link Crew organized a blanket drive and fundraiser to benefit St. Vincent de Paul in Coeur d’Alene and the Kootenai County Humane…
President Obama chose confrontation over conciliation on Thursday as he asserted the powers of the Oval Office to reshape the nation’s immigration system and all but dared members of next year’s Republican-controlled Congress to reverse his actions on behalf of millions of immigrants. In a…
For the last 12 years, the Coeur d'Alene Chamber of Commerce has underwritten the Ironman Coeur d'Alene event, but now it's considering ending its sponsorship before the race slated for June 2017. Before making that decision, the chamber is seeking recommendations on how to proceed.…
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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