Kerri Thoreson sends this picture from Portland. Random Portland street scene during the Saturday market. This panhandling pooch was quite serious about his grip on the sign as he accompanied his owner down the sidewalk.
In case you mised it last night, Cda Press reporter (and awesome BBQ-er) Jeff Selle was featured on KXLY News. Selle, or as reporter Jeff Humphrey prefers to call him, "Sally," talks about breaking the Dolezal story.
Spokane police are investigating claims that a 19-year-old homeless man sexually abused a 5-year-old girl, whose parents retaliated by tying him up in their basement and holding him at knifepoint. Before the alleged assault and kidnapping on May 20, the parents had befriended the homeless man and occasionally allowed him to stay at their home, according to a search warrant filed last week in Spokane County Superior Court.
You know, just once I'd like to see Spokane make the national news for something a tad less embarrassing than the Rachel Dolezal story. Gosh. But for media outlets, she's the gift that keeps on giving and giving and...
The Idaho Land Board has taken a step toward selling off endowment commercial real estate holdings within the state, while also looking to buy shares in professionally managed commercial property investments nationwide. The board voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a process for hiring an adviser to sell 21 commercial properties worth about $25 million, all but a handful in Boise, the AP reports.
Don't look now, but it appears Joker called it. Dolezal is reportedly fielding multiple offers to film a reality TV show. She probably needs the gig since she's no longer teaching at EWU and the Inlander has nixed her column.
Don't look now, but Sam's Honor's English summer reading assignment for 10th grade Honor's English has arrived. "So. There's some questionable content?" he asks.
BOISE -- The Idaho Freedom Foundation launched Tuesday a new website to expose and let the public track Politician Pension Payoffs, through which former state legislators use a special pension carve-out to rake in big bucks in retirement. Some ex-politicians have used the state’s pension perk to convert a retirement benefit worth a few thousand dollars a year into one worth more than many Idaho families make all year. Former Sen. Dean Cameron, one of the latest beneficiaries of the pension payout, started his new state job Monday.
The Spokane Tribe has won approval from a key government agency in its drive to build a casino, hotel and stores near Airway Heights. The U.S. Department of the Interior sent Gov. Jay Inslee a letter saying it believes the project “is in the best interests of the Spokane Tribe and its members and not detrimental to the surrounding community.”
MIAMI – Vowing to win the Republican presidential nomination on his own merits, Jeb Bush launched a White House bid months in the making Monday with a promise to stay true to his beliefs – easier said than done in a bristling primary contest where his conservative credentials will be sharply challenged.
Once a rising star in the Pacific Northwest’s civil rights movement, Rachel Dolezal’s career was in free fall Monday. She resigned under fire as president of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP. Eastern Washington University removed her online biography from the faculty directory. And Spokane city officials asked Spokane’s ethics commission to investigate whether she lied while applying for a volunteer position with the police ombudsman’s office.
Based on how state endowment fund investment returns are coming in, Idaho can likely expect distributions to the beneficiaries – the largest of which is public schools – to jump by about 9 percent from the fiscal year 2016 distribution to the 2017 level, investment manager Larry Johnson told the state Land Board this morning.
SEATTLE – Seven hours of shut-eye: That’s the minimum amount of sleep that adults need each night for best health, according to new recommendations from a panel led by a University of Washington sleep expert. And functioning effectively – without guzzling gallons of coffee – could require even more time between the sheets, said Dr. Nathaniel F. Watson, a professor of neurology and co-director of the UW Medicine Sleep Center.
Andy Goldfarb, a staff biologist at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, plays with one of the four clouded leopard cubs currently at the zoo June 5, 2015, in Tacoma, Wash. This sweet photo was made by former SR colleague Ingrid Barrentine. So great to see her work featured.
School’s out for summer, and the school cops are headed to the beach. Crowds flocking to downtown Coeur d’Alene, City Beach, Tubbs Hill and nearby parks this summer will be greeted by six of the city’s school resource officers. They volunteered for a pilot program to beef up patrols of those popular destinations, tackling problems such as heavy drinking, loitering, fighting, property crimes and dogs at large
Rachel Dolezal’s misrepresentations may extend beyond her racial and ethnic background. The civil rights advocate portrayed herself as the daughter of a black Oakland police officer when seeking appointment to Spokane’s police oversight commission last year. That blend of life experiences impressed at least two of those involved in the selection process. “I thought that kind of background would be beneficial,” said Spokane City Councilman and Public Safety Committee Chairman Jon Snyder.
Mind boggling, but Betsy Russell reports: All but four states have either met or are working toward meeting federal guidelines intended to prevent prison rape, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, but Idaho’s one of the four that hasn’t. AP reporter Rebecca Boone writes that Idaho, Arkansas, Alaska and Utah continue to reject the federal rules under the Prison Rape Elimination Act.
"It's more complex than that." That's what Dolezal said repeatedly in this morning's interview on the Today Show when asked about her deception. Did you watch the interview? NEW YORK — The woman who resigned as head of a NAACP chapter after her parents said she is white said Tuesday that she started identifying as black around age 5, when she drew self-portraits with a brown crayon, and “takes exception” to the contention that she tried to deceive people.
I enjoy a good Chiefs game once or twice a year, but I simply cannot fathom watching a winter sport in June. But hey, Go Blackhawks CHICAGO – Showing off their grit and determination, the Chicago Blackhawks finally put away the Tampa Bay Lightning in the Stanley Cup Final. The city of broad shoulders, strong enough to carry the silver trophy once again. A Windy City party 77 years in the making.
But wait. There's more. In a series of interviews last year Rachel Dolezal told an Eastern Washington University art student that her ex-husband expected her to look like a white woman. “She said it was this very oppressive experience where she had to deny her blackness,” said Lauren Campbell, who is black.
Khaliela Wright provides her latest cartoon: The Rachel Dolezal Race Determination Form.
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.
