An upset by seed but certainly not by how the game played out. No. 11 Gonzaga dominated most of the way, shut down Seton Hall standout guard Isaiah Whitehead and powered to a 68-52 first-round victory in front of 19,500 Thursday at the Pepsi Center. The Zags (27-7) looked very much like a team that has done this before, and for good reason.
For all of us non-Irish gardeners, St. Patrick's Day means that it's time to plant your potatoes -- if you grow potatoes. Spuds tend to take the nutrients out of the soil. So I plant them every so many years. I'm overdue to plant them this year. We'll see. OTOH, home-grown potatoes are way sweeter than the store-bought ones.
Deacon Fetterman blows a trumpet on the corner of Lafayette Square during the St. Patrick's Day Parade Thursday in Savannah, Ga.
Recently, Ethan Mansfield unearthed a 2007 photo showing several people kicking back at hot springs near Lowman. The group, including Mansfield, had just graduated from Boise High School. Fifteen grinning grads wearing swimsuits crowded into the frame. Today, Mansfield is one of just two living...
Scanner Traffic for Thursday PM (19 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic with 8 more items) includes arrest of driver of stolen Montana vehicle that shut down w/b I-90 traffic for awhile in the Post Falls area.
The Cutline Contest today features German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a tech and computer fair in Hannover. Wednesday Winner -- Nic.
The urban renewal reform bill that emerged from a legislative interim committee continued its tortured journey today, the Lewiston Tribune’s Bill Spence reports, earning just enough votes to make it out of committee to the House floor for possible amendments. The legislation, HB 606, has been rewritten and modified several times since November.
In a playful moment, state Sen. Bob Nonini, R-Post Falls, has fun with a cameraman during a break in the action today at the Idaho Statehouse. Clark Corbin of Idaho Education News, who snapped this photo, tweeted: "Sen. Nonini may need to put in for a brown tag so he can join the press corps."
We get another No. 2 seed (Bernie Sanders) to come to Idaho, but we don't even have to pay $2M for the privilege this time.
The daily roundup of posts from Huckleberries Online blogosphere includes news from Bay Views that former Bayview community booster Hobart Jenkins has died at the age of 92. In 2008, the SR applauded Hobart for his community activism. Also: St Patrick Day/Simple Mind, Birds of a feather/Fort Boise, From the other side/Carlson Chronicles ...
The University of Idaho College of Law climbed 16 spots on the U.S. News & World Report rankings of best law schools in the nation, up to position 111. This significant rise is one of the highest in the country and puts the college ahead of other law schools in Eastern Washington, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota and South Dakota.
A 2nd location for the Kootenai County Demo prez caucus will be open on Tuesday, March 22. Caucus-goers can cast their votes at North Idaho College Boswell Hall and the Jacklin Building No. 25 at the Kootenai County Fairground. County Democratic leaders are also calling for more volunteers to help with what is looking to be a record-setting event.
Sen. Dan Schmidt, D-Moscow, announced today that he’s giving up his state-paid health insurance. “I have state taxpayer-funded health insurance, because I am a state legislator,” he said. “I get that benefit, and this Legislature can’t give that benefit to 78,000 Idahoans who can’t afford it.” I don't expect any GOP legislator to follow suit.
Responding to a formal complaint from Idaho Education News, the Caldwell School Board on Wednesday admitted to violating Idaho open meetings law. The violations — and Idaho Education News’ complaint — stems from nine hours of closed meetings Saturday, and the board’s subsequent decision to hire Shalene French as the district’s new superintendent.
The Bard of Sherman Avenue offers a "St Patrick's Toast" to all of you who have Irish blood in you or wished you did.
In the editorial Wednesday, The Spokesman-Review spotlights the stubborn Republican Legislature in Idaho for repeatedly refusing to address the Medicaid gap that leaves 78,000 Idahoans exposed to life-and-death health risks.
Scanner Traffic for Thursday AM (8 items & counting) includes road rager pulling a gun on another motorist on Rathdrum Prairie ...
The daily roundup of AM headlines includes news from Eye on Boise that Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders will be in Boise Friday. Also: Abortion ultrasound bill goes to Otter/EOB, Panel OKs amendments to anti-Sharia law/EOB, Hayden man sentenced for counterfeiting/CdA Press, Gonzaga, Seton Hall offer contrasting styles of play/SR
Overwhelmingly (82%), Hucks Nation says it's the duty of the U.S. Senate to give a full hearing and vote to Supreme Court justice nominee Merrick Garland. Republican leaders in the Senate have promised to stonewall the nomination until a new president can be sworn in. Today's Poll: Do you support the construction of more high-rises in downtown CdA.
The races for precinct committee positions are largely ignored by the public, but not by the constitutional libertarians and Rally Right wings who control the local Republican Party. Now, Ronda Nash, a woman with strong Republican pedigree, is challenging controversial Bjorn Handeen for precinct committee person in Precinct 52 (the Borah Triangle).
The House Education Committee has voted to send SB 1342, Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll’s Bible-in-schools bill, to the full House with a recommendation that it “do pass.” The panel’s three minority Democrats plus Rep. Lance Clow, R-Twin Falls, voted against the motion. The action was taken despite an AG opinion that the bill is unconstitutional.
The House State Affairs Committee has voted along party lines, 13-4, in favor of SB 1389, the permitless concealed-carry bill. The four minority Democrats voted no; all Republican committee members voted yes.
An off-the-radar GOPrimary contest for Legislature will feature opponents from two distinct parts of the Balkanized local Republican Party: state Rep. Eric Redman from the religious Rally Right side and Alan Littlejohn from the North West Property Owners Alliance (Phil Hart Liberty Republican) branch. We'll see who has the most clout in Athol.
In an in-depth article for Oregon Public Broadcasting, reporter John Sepulvado looks at the role played in the Malheur Wildlife Refuge standoff by Republican legislators Matt Shea of Washington, Judy Boyle of Idaho, Michele Fiore of Nevada, and others. State Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, who visited Malheur twice, isn't mentioned.
Tessa DeMoy of Hayden was given a due date of March 9, so she did not think she would have her first baby in the new Kootenai Health McIntire Family Birth Center. But baby Danica wasn't ready by March 9 and the new birth center, part of the 100,000-square-foot expansion at Kootenai Health in Coeur d'Alene, officially opened its doors this week.
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.
