I'm sorry to hear about the passing of radio legend John Rook this week. I met John when he was the owner/operator of KCDA-AM, above what is now Moose Lounge at 4th & Sherman. He had gold records and photos of himself and such stars as Kenny Rodgers all around the studio. He talked about his connections with past and present movie stars.
Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, wave to the crowd as he speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Friday, in National Harbor, Md. Cruz will fly cross country to appear at the Kootenai County Fairgrounds for a rally from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday.
As you know, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, will be the attraction of a Coeur d'Alene rally, from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Kootenai County Fairgrounds. The appearance comes days before the Idaho GOPrez primary. Maybe Cruz doesn't interest you. Which candidate would you turn out to see this year if he or she came to your town?
Scanner Traffic for Friday PM (20 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic with 20 more items) ...
The Cutline Contest today features a cormorant trying to swallow a big fish at the Cadillac Championship golf tournament in Florida. Thursday Winner -- HFHayden.
So, Cindy's at a workshop in the Seattle area, and the participants were asked to discuss: "Worst Date, First Date." Cindy posted about this on Facebook. And some responses involved bailing someone out of a jail in Sandpoint and going out with a blind date that ended up blind drunk. How about you? What was your "worst date, first date"?
More and more, The Bard of Sherman Avenue tells Huckleberries Online, he find himself looking for misplaced keys. I'm sure many of us can identify with that occurrence.
Wayne Hoffman of the Idaho Freedom Foundation argues that the state of Idaho should get out of the workforce training business, commenting: "A bill quietly making its way through the Idaho Legislature would prolong a failed government program — and all the taxes that go with it."
Four Idaho residents charged in connection with an armed standoff in Nevada were appointed public defenders during their first federal court appearance on Friday. The Idaho Statesman reports that if they are convicted, Eric James Parker, Steve Arthur Stewart, O. Scott Drexler and Todd Engle could face life sentences.
In the daily roundup of posts from the Huckleberries Online blogosphere, past Idaho governors and current Gov. Butch Otter were featured on Idaho Day at the Legislature. Also: Idaho Week in Review/Better Idaho 1st Take: Trumpspeak/Randy Stapilus, Sabonis, on & off the court/SportsLink, Spokane River & Bs keep rolling along/Grip ...
In his post today, Fort Boise spotlights the nasty political attack on state Rep. Kelley Packer, R-McCammon, by IFFy exec Wayne Hoffman in the form of robo-calls. Hoffman is slamming McCammon as a "librul" in the robo-calls after she had the nerve to call out his organization as hypocritical and bullyish.
In her SR column, Jill Barville warns readers not to fall victim to all that social media nonsense, distortion and lies, designed to entice you to click links to unknown Web sites: "This column is an Internet intervention, a public service column to save your face. A lot of intelligent people are looking like fools on the Internet."
In a Statesman op-ed, retired Air Force colonel Robert Blevins comments re: why he's no longer an Idaho Republican: "Paraphrasing President Ronald Reagan, I didn’t leave the Republican Party, the party left me. I’m a white male, age 64, raised in the South, and a retired military officer. I should be a Republican, right? Not so, and here's why."
After two hours of insults, policy disagreements and accusations, the Republican presidential candidates all said they would still support each other in a general election. Reprising a question from the first Republican debate in August, Mr. Baier asked the candidates if they would support Mr. Trump, the frontrunner, if he won the nomination.
In another twist in the long-running O.J. Simpson saga, Los Angeles police are investigating and testing a knife that was reportedly recovered on the Brentwood property once owned by the former football star. The elite Robbery-Homicide Division is investigating a knife now in the possession of the Los Angeles Police Department.
Scanner Traffic for Friday AM (20 items & counting) includes search for suicidal male in field near Wyoming Ave/Idaho Road, Rathdrum ...
The Coeur d'Alene Press takes Trustee Carol Goodman of the Post Falls School District for lobbying for an unconstitutional bill to divert public school dollars to private schools. Goodman was one of two Hard Right candidates to win office in 2013. The other has resigned her position. Voters should remember this stand if she seeks re-election.
A federal appeals court says former Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho improperly used campaign funds to pay for his legal defense after his arrest in a 2007 airport bathroom sex sting. The ruling Friday upheld a lower court decision that said Craig must pay the federal government $242,000 for violating election laws.
AM Headlines for TGIFriday includes: Idaho Records/Press, Cruz visits Coeur d'Alene Saturday/Press, Highway 41 trail construction starts/Press, Votes set budgets for ITD, Historical Society/EOB, Senate introduces abortion bill on party line vote/EOB, House hosts 4 guvs, 3 former ones, on Idaho Day/EOB ...
In Thursday's poll, more than 60% of Hucks Nation oppose a law proposed by state Rep. Eric Redman, R-Athol, that would ban Sharia law from Idaho. 146 of 232 respondents (62.93%) oppose Redman's proposal. Today's Poll: Which political faction do you identify with?
In an op-ed column for the Idaho Statesman, Jim Pierce of Coeur d'Alene, the 2nd vice president of the Idaho Republican Party, is telling conservative Independents to register Republican and vote in the GOP primaries. Otherwise, he said, such Independents will lose their voice in the only elections that really matter.
Legislation to remove a legal exemption for parents who believe in faith healing and whose children get seriously ill or die isn’t going anywhere this year. The governor had already asked legislative leaders to name a work group of lawmakers to study the issue after the session, but they haven’t decided whether they will.
In his Carlson Chronicles column today, Chris Carlson says Idaho's 2 US senators -- Jim Risch and Mike Crapo -- are abdicated their duties to serve their constituents. Risch and Crapo have joined other Republicans in saying that they won't hold a hearing or meet with President Obama to discuss a Supreme Court nomination.
It’s not just the Republicans who are confused about this year’s caucus and primary elections. “The Democrats are just as confused as the Republicans,” said Paula Neils, chair of the Kootenai County Democrats, explaining how her party is using the caucus system to select its candidates for this year’s general election in November.
John Rook was tuned in to the radio industry. Rook, an influential radio programmer in major markets before owning stations here, died on Tuesday of natural causes at his Coeur d'Alene home. He was 78. "John was a legend in the radio world," said longtime friend and Coeur d'Alene attorney John Magnuson.
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.
