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MONDAY, MARCH 9, 2015


Poll: Booze & '50 Shades'? Yes

In our weekend poll, Hucks Nation supported the continued serving of alcohol by theaters in Idaho that do, during the showing of "Fifty Shades of Grey." Today's Poll: Do you trust Gov. Butch Otter to unilaterally decide whether the state should accept more N-waste?

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Districts Save Big Without IEN 

The data is in from most of Idaho’s school districts, and it appears that the state is seeing big savings now that the districts have found their own vendors for broadband services to replace the defunct Idaho Education Network, for which the state’s $60 million...

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Trib: Raul Goes With The Flow

Ambitious Congressman Raul Labrador's trying to polish his credentials with his Teapublican supporters after straying off course and supporting House Speaker John Boehner's re-election bid. Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune weighs in ...

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Blanchette: Zags Win 30th Despite Funk 

Former UCLA coach Jim Harrick has an interesting perspective on Gonzaga's "funk" over the last half of the season in the West Coast Conference. Also, Jim Meehan provides an update on Kyle Wiltjer's status for tonight as well as the game story from Saturday night's win over USF ...

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A Real Conversation About Race 24 

America's long national nightmare is drawing to a close. Soon-to-be retired U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder got his tenure off to a fine start by calling the country he served "a nation of cowards." America's cowardice, as he saw it, had to do with its...

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Press: Don't Miss School Vote 

Tuesday is going to be more than a beautiful, warm, late-winter day across Kootenai County. It will also be a time of reckoning for Post Falls and Coeur d'Alene school districts. Both districts are asking voters for money. In Post Falls, the request is twofold:…

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1000s Observe Selma Anniversary

Thousands of people crowded an Alabama bridge on Sunday, many jammed shoulder to shoulder, many unable to move, to commemorate a bloody confrontation 50 years ago between police and peaceful protesters that helped bring about the 1965 Voting Rights Act ...

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SR: Idaho Needs N-Waste Debate

Idaho Gov. Butch Otter sees “possibilities” in a new agreement allowing more nuclear waste into the state. So do two of his predecessors, and they do not like the possibilities they see. To former Idaho chief executives Cecil Andrus and Phil Batt, possibility No. 1...

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Hucks: Remembering Spock

Sunday Huckleberries print opened with former Councilman Mike Kennedy's childhood remembrances of two neighbors in the Beverly Hill neighborhood of his aunt (Patty Duke) and uncle (John Astin): Carroll O'Connor and Leonard Nimoy ...

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Huckleberries Online

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.