Blogfest 2016 was one of the best yet, in terms of content and turnout. The annual gathering of commenters, blurkers and bloggers in the North Idaho blogosphere serves to re-charge my batteries. It makes me realize what an odd, wonderful community that has built up around this blog over the years.
A full moon rises behind the Statue of Liberty seen from the Port Liberte neighborhood of Jersey City, N.J., Monday. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
A charter school in Rathdrum, Idaho, is headed to space. NASA has picked a team of high school students at STEM Charter Academy to design and build a small research satellite for launch next year.
The Bard of Sherman Avenue says there are three great gifts that life offers -- and he found all three at Blogfest 2016. Click on the link below to find out what the three great things in life are.
The Cutline Contest today features a high school principal in Michigan kissing a pig as part of a fundraiser for a Humane Society. Weekend Winner: JohnA.
Scanner Traffic for Monday PM (16 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic with 8 more items) ...
After years of resistance from Idaho lawmakers, there’s no longer any reason for Idaho to fear compliance with the federal Real ID Act, House Transportation Chairman Joe Palmer, R-Meridian, told lawmakers today. He said the two big fears – an unfunded mandate, and possible invasion...
The daily roundup of posts from the Huckleberries Online blogosphere includes a bunch of Don Sausser photos from Blogfest 2016. Also: Waiting for his reward/The SliceTed Cruz sent us a check/Fort Boise, Talk about inequality/Dogwalk Musings, Your weekly (brew pub) roundup/On Tap, Wild for Wilderness filmfest in CdA/Outdoors ...
Is there an exemption to the public records law that Idaho Republicans don't like. Now, the "transparent" Republican legislator in the House State Affairs Committee have given their approval to exempting the acquisition of sawed-off shotguns, machine guns and silencers from public records request. Thoughts?
Coeur d'Alene native Linda Lantzy, the superb Idaho Scenic Images outdoor photographer, is offering three, three-day photography workshops around the state this year, including one at Priest Lake in October. You can read about Linda's workshops below.
Mrs. O and I joined our in-laws and their daughter for a family birthday party at the Outback Steakhouse Friday night. The food was good. Per usual. And the service was exceptional. But the TLC provided by Outback Steakhouse proprietor Daniel De Hora was over the top good.
Here's a package of stories from Gonzaga's loss to Saint Mary's at The Kennel Saturday -- a loss that prevented the Zags from claiming at least a tie for the West Coast Conference title. Also, John Blanchette writes that this down season and a possible loss of an NCAA tournament bid were bound to happen sometime to the region's favorite team.
If the Constitution Party held a presidential debate in Boise and no one tuned in, would it still be a debate? Actually, the Constitution Party is planning a presidential debate in Boise Saturday for its presidential primary on March 8, the same day that the Idaho GOP is holding its publicly funded $2M presidential primary.
On Saturday, Tom Wobker, The Bard of Sherman Avenue, read a poem to the Blogfest 2016 gathering that was first published in my Huckleberries print column on Nov. 23, 2005. In it, he gives thanks for the many readers who were already following his "little rhymes."
Scanner Traffic for Monday AM (8 items) includes fire blazing at two structures @ 12th Ave/Lincoln Street, Post Falls, reported at 11:49 a.m.
The daily roundup of AM Headlines making the news includes: Cruz plans North Idaho visit/Press, Idaho not interested in pot legalization/AP, County sheriff warns of scams in area/Press, Coeur d'Alene mag celebrates birthday 20/Press, CdA schools suspend 268 in fall semester/Press, Arrest made in Post Falls gas pump skimming case/Press ...
In a Idaho Politics Weekly column, Chuck Malloy addresses how important Idaho Sen. Shawn Keough, R-Sandpoint, is to North Idaho. As co-chairwoman of the powerful Joint Finance & Appropriations Committee, Keough carries considerable clourt for Senate District 1 as well as the five northern counties.
Jeb Bush, the $100 million candidate with sterling political blood lines, folded his presidential tent after another disappointing finish in the South Carolina presidential primary Saturday. The national media is picking through the bones of his dead presidential campaign. Why do you think Bush failed to get untracked?
In the Weekend Poll, Hucks Nation voted overwhelmingly against the move by Secretary of State Lawerence Denney to order $20,000 worth of billboards to advertise the GOP prez primary March 8 without mentioning the Democratic caucuses on March 22. Today's Poll: Do you trust the Idaho Legislature to tinker with the homeowners property tax exemption?
The Senate State Affairs Committee has killed Sen. Mary Souza’s bill to require campaign finance reporting for all candidates and ballot measures, at all levels of government, whether or not any money is raised or spent; the bill was defeated on a lopsided voice vote.
Bert Caldwell, who retired as editorial page editor of The Spokesman-Review Friday, penned some thoughts about his career before he went out the door. His career began in 1978 at a weekly in Cut Bank, Mont., where he was so broke that he had to borrow $300 from his parents to fix his 1972 Pinto.
After I returned home Blogfest 2016, kicked my shoes off and began browsing through the comments about Tom Wobker, the now revealed Bard of Sherman Avenue, one comment rose to the top. Tom's brother, David, penned a short rhyme that indicates he didn't know the identity to The Bard either.
State Rep. Don Cheatham, R-Post Falls, and other co-sponsors of a bill that would exempt "critical infrastructure" from public records request in the name of homeland security are fighting against state government transparency. A SR editorial points out why this bill does nothing to provide more security but does limit public access.
For 14 years, Tom Wobker and I have kept a secret that was known only to few others. Wobker, a principal at Pennaluna minining stocks at 5th St & Sherman Avenue, was the man behind the little rhymes -- at least 606 of them -- that appeared in my Huckleberries & Hot Potatoes columns to joy of many. Meet The Bard of Sherman Avenue.
In her Eye on Boise column Sunday, Betsy Russell explains how your local Republican legislators might be trying to raise your property taxes by messing with the homeowners exemption.
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.
