Idaho school districts are collecting more than $180 million in voter-approved supplemental levies in 2014-15. This represents almost a 4 percent decrease from 2013-14, when districts collected more than $188 million in supplemental levies. But the dropoff can be explained by reduced levies in three...
I prefer to shovel snow, to snow-blow it, unless the snow is deep & heavy (as it was last night). Then, I envy my neighbors with snow blowers, until the blowers jam.
Former U.S. senator Larry Craig is the gift that keeps giving. He and three other politicians who got caught in sex scandals are the subject of an off-Broadway play, called "Tail! Spin!)
All of today's AM Scanner Traffic, including a firefighter response to locate an electrical problem at American West Bank in Hayden & several slideoffs on freeway in Shoshone Co area ...
A new poll by Utah pollster Dan Jones & Associates shows that two-thirds of Idahoans believe it should be against state law to discriminate against gays, lesbians and transgender people in housing, employment and business. The poll, which queried 520 Idaho adults in late December...
See the top headlines of this morning, including a report on the snow storm that had many of outside shoveling and snow blowing over the weekend ...
While I was on vacation, Super Sub Cindy guided Huckleberries the rest of the way to records for page-views and blog views. In 2014, Huckleberries finished with 2,627,127 page-views, besting this blog's 2012 record by 23,017 pageviews, and 1,672,554 unique views. The 2014 total bested...
On Lake Harriet in Minneapolis, with the temperature creeping up toward zero and wind chill of -19 degrees, someone propped up a cardboard figure of Twins second baseman Brian Dozier on the ice Sunday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Jeff Wheeler)
Brian J. Lindsey, 25, of Spokane Valley, (pictured) has been arrested and charged in the robbery of the Walgreens pharmacy, 335 Appleway, at 8:37 p.m. Sunday. Responding Coeur d'Alene police were told that a white male dressed in all black clothing jumped the counter of...
Sandi Bloem, the longest serving and first woman mayor of Coeur d’Alene, has joined Gallatin Public Affairs. Gallatin is celebrating 25 years as a leading Northwest Public Affairs firm. Bloem served as mayor of Coeur d’Alene from 2002 to 2014. During her leadership, Coeur d’Alene…
Live by the gun, die by the gun. What, you were expecting sympathy? Why? Celebrate instead, Rutledge is the latest blood sacrifice made to live in a free country. Do it quick, before the next one comes along. Callous remark? No, tired, weary and fed...
In the year of the Big Lie, says Michael Costello of the Lewiston Tribune, 2 whoppers take the cake including President Obama's claim that he could sweet talk Islamic terrorists into behaving ...
On her Facebook wall, Kerri Thoreson announces that most school districts are closed today due to slush. Do you agree with that decision? Is it really that bad out there?
In this March 4, 2009 file photo, Donna Douglas, who starred in the television series "The Beverly Hillbillies" tours the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans. Douglas, who played the buxom tomboy Elly May Clampett on the hit 1960s sitcom died at age 82 on Jan.…
Can Idaho legislators put aside their hatred of Obamacare long enough to help Idaho's working poor? Coeur d'Alene Press editorial says they need to do so.
A lot of Kootenai County's outlook in 2015 will depend on the two new commissioners elected in November to the three-person board. County Commissioner-elect David Stewart said his schedule shows he will be sworn in at 10 a.m. on Jan. 12. He has asked that…
For Mayor Steve Widmyer and the Coeur d'Alene City Council, 2015 will be a year of challenging business and exciting developments. According to the mayor, public safety is the most important piece of business the city will continue to address in 2015. Widmyer said the...
I have to think of something nice to say about cats apparently -- because Cindy steered Huckleberries Online to a blog record for annual page-views while I was on vacation. I'll tell you more about that Monday. Meanwhile, I need to bundle up and head…
This photo of snow shrouding the gargoyles atop the Chronicle buidling in downtown Spokane make me especially glad I'm spending my day off hanging out at home with my guys. Stay safe out there!
Here it is. The new blog format. I love how they wait until DFO is on vacation to roll it out! Although to be fair, when is Dave NOT on vacation? I appear to be 7 years younger, since they used my orginal column mugshot....
The family of Veronica Rutledge has set up a memorial fund to pay for her funeral expenses and provide support for her husband and son. Rutledge was killed Tuesday at a Walmart in Hayden, Idaho after her two-year-old son accidentally shot her with a gun...
Dan Gayle, of SR's Tech Deck blogs, posts: "We've been hard at work building new templates for the entire network of spokesman.com blogs, and they're going live tonight! (Yay, we know how to party like it's 1999). If you're familiar with Rich Landers' Outdoors blog, the new designs are almost exactly the same,...
Spokesman-Review reporter Rachel Alexander describes her first Polar Bear Plunge, with hundreds of others, in Lake Coeur d'Alene today.
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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