As a kid, I enjoyed the two, three-day weekends away from school in February -- Feb. 12, for Abraham Lincoln's birthday, and Feb. 22, for George Washington's birthday. They were a welcome relief as winter wound down and spring near. Now, the two birthdays of...
President Bill Clinton makes a point to a Donald Trump supporter, during a rally for Hillary Clinton. who is running for the Democratic presidential nomination, at the Port of Palm Beach in Riviera Beach, Fla., Monday.
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The Cutline Contest today feature Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, encountering a 3-month-old lookalike while campaigning in Venice, Calif. Weekend Winner: DFO.
The Idaho Legislature is about to put the scroogy to Idaho homeowners again, by removing the index feature and freezing the homeowners exemption at $100,000. Over the course of years, homeowners will pay more of the property tax and business and natural resource industry less. If this scheme passes, you can thank your GOP legislator.
The daily roundup of post from Huckleberries Online blog roll includes: First Take: Scalia/Randy Stapilus, Let's get outside until it rains/Grip on Sports, Malheur refuge again for the birds/Outdoors, McConnell's climatic obstruction/Fort Boise, Election Day should be June 2/Simple Mind, Which makes for best eavesdropping?/The Slice ...
Idaho receives more federal funding relative to its total spending than two-thirds of all states. And because of its near-bottom average wages, it is reimbursed for social programs at a higher rate than all but two. The state’s proposed budget for next year is one-third funded by federal dollars.
On her Facebook wall this AM, Kerri Thoreson offers 89th birthday wishes to "Bubblehead Bob" Hough. Bob had shed the "Bubblehead" part by the time I arrived in Coeur d'Alene in 1984. He was the morning news reporter then, giving way to Dick Haugen. When Kerri started her "Main Street Monday" show on KVNI in 2010, Bob was a regular.
I'm sorry to see state Rep. Luke Malek, R-Coeur d'Alene, as lead sponsor on legislation attacking local government control in form of a bill that preempts city or county governments from raising the minimum wage. That puts him on the same side as Idaho Freedom Foundation's Wayne Hoffman. All the Republicans were for it. Of course.
A (Washington) rule allowing transgender people to use public restrooms based on their gender identity drew dueling protests at the Washington Capitol Monday. Opponents of the rule were told it may be challenged in court and with a ballot initiative. “We will not stop until we have it thrown out,” State Rep. Matt Shea, R-Spokane Valley.
State Rep. Ron Mendive, whose concerns about a literacy bill last week caused the House Education Committee to vote 7-6 to hold the bill for a week, explains his concerns about too much public education spending. (Question: How in the world does Kootenai County elect legislators like Mendive, who appear to be against public education?)
33 years ago, Woody McEvers and his brother, Daren, opened the original Rusters Roost at the corner of 7th Street & Sherman Avenue. From there, they jumped across the street to the building that now houses Java on Sherman. And then out to the corner of H95/Hayden Ave. And then into their own building nearby. Do you recall the original Roost.
AM Scanner Traffic for Monday (12 items & counting) includes a suspicious male who startled a female employee into pushing her car panic alarm as she arrived for work at a Hayden business.
Mayor Steve Widmyer tells Huckleberries Online that it's all systems go for Blogfest 2016 from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday at his Fort Ground Grill, the long-time home of Blogfest. The Spokesman-Review will provide the usual meal fare: pulled pork, mac-n-cheese, cole slaw, cookies & pop. (Question: Who is coming to Blogfest 2016?)
Congressman Raul Labrador has issued a statement re: unexpected death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia: "I have viewed him as the Court’s most important voice for protecting the meaning of the Constitution and the correct interpretation of the law. History will remember him as one of our greatest jurists."
Idaho would join the 48 other states that don’t require sales tax to be added to the price of Girl Scout cookies, under legislation that cleared the House Revenue & Taxation Committee this morning with just two dissenting votes. HB 449 would exempt food products…
The daily roundup of AM Headlines includes: 1st female Spokane Tribe leader faces challenges/SR, Temperatures to reach April-like highs/SR, Clark: LED street lights are global scourge/SR, Report of rollover crash Saturday partly true/SR, Coeur d'Alene teen honored for selfless act/Press, ITD tests device to limit car-animal collisions/Press ...
State Sen. Mary Souza, R-Coeur d'Alene, isn't fooling Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase with her end-around attempt to turn school board elections into a partisan event. Souza is trying to inject partisan ship into nonpartisan school board elections by promoting a bill that would move them from May in off years to the general election in even ones.
In the Weekend Poll, Hucks Nation said the Malheur Wildlife Refuge occupation by the Bundy brothers and their followers did "little or nothing" to help their cause. Today's Poll: Should legislators eliminate the right of local governments to vote on issues that affect their economy (minimum wage, plastic bags, school election dates, etc.)
In an editorial this morning, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune spotlights how the 2016 Legislature, including state Sen. Mary Souza, R-CdA, is working overtime to hamstring local control on a variety of issues, including plastic bags, minimum wage and (in Souza's case) local school board elections.
In a letter to the Coeur d'Alene Press, Denise Graves writes: It is somewhere between incredulous to betrayal for some Christians to see evangelical leaders lending their endorsements to Donald Trump for President. Perhaps they are willing to overlook his chameleon-like positions on major conservative planks (and moral shortcomings)."
This seems to be the year that Idaho lawmakers move against local control, considering an array of measures to restrict local governments or even local communities through ballot measures from setting their own local policies on a range of issues.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died of natural causes and no autopsy was necessary, a judge has told The Associated Press. Chris Lujan, a manager for Sunset Funeral Homes in Texas, said the 79-year-old jurist's body was taken from the El Paso facility late Sunday afternoon and was to be flown to Virginia.
In her Eye on Boise column Sunday, Betsy Russell writes: "Hundreds of people filled the state Capitol’s largest hearing room Friday morning to press for expanding Medicaid to help Idahoans who don’t have health insurance, reforming the state’s foster care system, raising reimbursements to Medicaid service providers and more."
Sunday Huckleberries launches with a follow-up to the Confederate flag protest by Jon Ruggles of Wallace. Now, Ruggles is being told to go back to California by a Florida native who happens to embrace the controversial flag. She castigates Ruggles for his stand in a half-page letter to the Shoshone News Press.
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.
