If you’re looking for the early results from the Idaho Democratic presidential caucuses, you’re out of luck. Party spokesman Dean Ferguson said no results will be posted until all county caucuses are done – and Ada County, the largest one, started late. However, Betsy Russell/Eye on Boise reports, Idaho appears to be trending for Bernie Sanders.
As the crowds entered Boswell Hall, there was never much doubt that Bernie Sanders would take Kootenai County. As caucus participants filed into auditorium at North Idaho College, the side marked for Sanders supporters kept growing. It got so packed that overflow was directed to sit in Hillary Clinton’s section.
The Spokesman-Review is sending a photographer and reporter to the Idaho Democratic Party caucuses in Kootenai County tonight. Huckleberries Online will publish the photos and report when they become available tonight. (Q: Question: Who do you think is going to win in Idaho -- former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders?)
In December, I could hardly wait for the 2016 Legislature to start, knowing that it would provide plenty of fodder for this cyber mill. Now, I simply want it to go away.
BrainScope employee Doug Oberly wears a brain scanning headset at the NFL owners' meeting in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday. The headset and mobile app can quickly and easily allow clinicians to determine whether patients have sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI), the company says. (AP…
A wood products company that wants to prohibit development on a large tract of its North Idaho timberland but keep it open for logging and outdoor recreation is looking for legislative support even as Bonner County elected leaders mull the merits of the plan.
The Senate has voted 27-7 along party lines in favor of SB 1404a, the bill pushed by the group “Idaho Chooses Life” that bans donation or sale of fetal tissue in cases of abortion, either for organ donation or medical research. Opponents said that’s not occurring in Idaho and there’s no need for the bill.
Scanner Traffic for Monday PM (11 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic with 15 more items) includes report that a parent has collapsed on Bryan Elementary playground ...
The Cutline Contest today features German Chancellor Angela Merkel checking out an unusual hair style in Berlin, Germany. Monday Winner: Fort Boise.
"Try Harder: Millions of welfare recipients depend on you" -- bumpersnicker on blue VW parked nose, probably owned by a North Idaho College student, parked nose in along the Dike Road during the noon hour.
In the "Here We Go Again" Department, a local woman has started a petition to remove that wonderful piece of art, "Epiphany," from in front of the Hayden Public Library. Krystal Heisz says she cringes every time she drives by the colorful art work. Moi? I cringe every time someone thinks they have to like public art to validate it.
KREM2 reports: "Former KREM anchor Maureen O’Boyle has taken to Facebook to make an impassioned plea to keep the man who raped her 30 years ago locked up. O’Boyle, 52, is now a news anchor for WBTV in her hometown of Charlotte. On her Facebook page she shares a video of herself asking for the public’s help to keep her rapist in prison."
The daily roundup of posts from the Huckleberries Online blogosphere includes: We're now down to only one team/Grip, Going to the circus tonight/Simple Mind, Filling in the blank with (Idaho)/The Slice, Bodenstein Creek & Brussels/Slight Detour, Friday's openings: Sally Fields returns/7 Blog, Tick infestation makes moose ghostly/Outdoors ...
I'm not alone in thinking that a presidential caucus is weird. Commenter Codywiench agrees. In fact, he thinks caucuses disenfranchises more voters than a primary -- even, I suppose, a closed Republican primary. A caucus relies on shoe leather. Eligible individuals vote by attending them. Which cuts the number of voters significantly.
¡Pleibol! President Obama capped off his 48-hour visit to Cuba on Tuesday with a final remarkable moment, taking in a rare spring exhibition game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Cuban national baseball team in front of 55,000 Cuban and American baseball fans. (Q: Do you agree/disagree w/criticism vs Obama for attending this game?)
On Friday, state Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, put out a call to action "all liberty-minded, limited government fiscally responsible citizens" in advance of the Bonner County commissioner meeting this morning re: the Clagstone Road conservation easement.
The House has voted 59-5 in favor of SCR 140, the resolution to reject proposed new administrative rules on science standards for Idaho schoolkids. Rep. Julie VanOrden, R-Pingree, said the standards weren’t bad, but lawmakers felt they should take more citizen input before approving them.
Democrats head to caucuses in each of Idaho's 44 counties Tuesday, and organizers expect record turnout for the contest between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Anyone can vote in the state's Democratic caucus, as long as they're eligible to vote in the November general election and they didn't already vote in the March 8 GOP primary.
"Bombs exploded Tuesday at the Brussels airport and in the city's subway, killing at least 31 people and wounding dozens, as a European capital was again locked down amid heightened security threats," reports the Chicago Tribune. "The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attacks."
Scanner Traffic for Tuesday AM (15 items & counting) ...
In the Monday Poll, Hucks Nation said by more than 2-to-1 that it would rather attend a rally to see presidential candidate Bernie Sanders live than one featuring former president Bill Clinton. Both men, of course, visited Spokane in the last 2 days. Today's Poll: Do you plan to participate in the Idaho Democratic Party presidential caucuses today?
Legislative budget-writers Tuesday earmarked $8 million that could settle some claims in the Idaho Education Network contract fiasco. The money could go to Education Networks of America and CenturyLink, the two lead vendors on the mothballed high school broadband system. Both vendors could sue the state over unpaid project bills.
Or are the elected governing officials reckless when it comes to spending our money: $2M to underwrite a presidential primary that should have been held during the May primaries, per usual. $2.1M in lost legal defenses of constitutional sovereignty issues. And now $8 million to possibly settle the lost IEN suit. More on this thought below.
The daily roundup of AM Headlines includes a Bonner County commissioner meeting today to discuss the controversial Clagstone Meadows conservation easement. Also: Work to close US 95 ramps, shoulders/CdA Press, Candidate drops out of 6-way Supreme Court race/SR, City Hall remodel to improve access for the disabled/Press ...
Rep. Shannon McMillan, R-Silverton, is refusing to say why she voted against seven of the eight bills that make up the public schools budget, the Lewiston Tribune reports. “When asked why she opposed the budgets, McMillan brusquely refused to answer,” writes Bill Spence of the Lewiston Tribune.
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.
