Just when you thought the silly notion of states managing federal lands had died in Idaho, U.S. Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch help breathe life back into it, at a federal level. And conservation and sportsmen groups are angry with Crapo for abandoning his collaborative approach to public lands issues ...
Rich Landers/Outdoors blog posts: "A high-flying soap opera is underway in Sandpoint. Ospreys have migrated back to the Idaho Panhandle to win female affections, breed and nest, and there's quite a show going at the platform under the unblinking eye of a web cam at Sandpoint’s War Memorial Field." Rich provides link to web cam below ...
In the Coeur d'Alene Press report of the City Council meeting Tuesday, Councilman Dan Gookin used a strange phrase in his irresponsible attempt to foist $845,100 in Front Avenue LID improvements on the entire city of Coeur d'Alene. He referred to the Front Avenue property owners as 'my residents.' Is Gookin declaring himself to be king?
In a comment here at HucksOnline, CDAIndependent opines that Benghazi isn't enough to sink Hillary Clinton's political aspirations. Also, CDAIndependent says that many Americans want to see a female president -- and that Hillary may benefit from the strong desire. What do you think?
On Tuesday, Councilman Dan Gookin, with Ron Edinger riding shotgun, tried mightily to foist the $845,100 bill owed by Front Avenue property owners for street improvements onto the entire city of Coeur d'Alene. Referring to "my residents," Gookin failed by a 3-2 vote to saddle the community with the bill that improved those properties significantly.
In an op-ed column for the Coeur d'Alene Press, Michelle Gluch explains what it's like to live in the Medicaid gap -- that place where many of our working poor exist. They're working but unable to afford health insurance. She wants Idaho legislators to know what their failure to redesign Medicaid this session is hurting people like her ...
In his Wednesday editorial, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune analyzes how the Idaho House got schooled by the Idaho Senate when it tried to raid the state general fund to pay for road and bridge repairs. In legislative parlance, the Senate radiator-capped the House. See what that means below ...
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.
