Today, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to ban the display of the Confederate flag on flagpoles on flagpoles at Veterans Administration cemeteries. The 265-159 vote would block descendants and others seeking to commemorate veterans of the Confederate States of America from flying the Confederae Battle Flag over mass graves.
I feel like Inigo Montoya of "Princess Bride" today. Remember. At the end of the story, with the bad guys vanquished, Inigo laments (and I paraphrase): I've been in the revenge business so long, I don't know what to do now. Now that the conservative hardliners have been beaten back for another election cycle, what should we do?
Scanner Traffic for Thursday PM (10 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic with 18 more items) ...
The Cutline Contest today features an officer reviewing members of the honor guard for a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People of Beijing. Wednesday Winner: Phaedrus.
The FBI is continuing its search for a fugitive North Idaho doctor who was convicted of 66 federal drug charges earlier this week. Rafael L.W. Beier, 61, failed to show up in U.S. District Court in Idaho to hear his verdict. He was convicted of selling narcotic prescriptions to people who were not his patients.
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The group “Better Idaho” has delivered petitions with more than 1,500 signatures to U.S. Attorney Wendy Olson calling for federal hate crime charges to be filed against the four men who beat Steven Nelson to death, after luring him to a meeting at Lake Lowell through an ad in a gay publication.
Mark this down on your calendar. Former SR colleague Jess Walter, best-selling author of "Beautiful Ruins" and "Financial Lives of Poets" will help launch the new reading and discussion series at the Coeur d'Alene Library. Walter will be featured at 6 p.m. Sunday, June 12, in the library community room.
Kootenai County Sheriff's Office press release: At about 7:50 a.m. today, deputies responded to Fowler Road, near Rathdrum, for the report of a suspicious male prowling a vehicle. The male was not located at that time. At about 9:20 a.m., deputies responded to another residence...
In a strange comment below a Coeur d'Alene Press online story today, "Reflections from the primary," Brent Regan, chairman of the Idaho Freedom Foundation, attacked House District 3 candidate Peter Riggs and his father, former Lt. Gov. Jack Riggs.
A new Washington Post poll found that 90 percent of Native Americans aren't offended by the Washington Redskins' nickname and an overwhelming majority consider it an unimportant issue. The Post polled 504 people who identify primarily as Native American from across the country.
Can Democrat Kristi Milan beat state Sen. Mary Souza in the race for the Senate District 4 in the general election this fall? Souza has the magical "R" after her name -- and she did attract 3,198 votes in her unopposed GOP primary "race." Milan, on the other hand, received 862 votes on the Democratic side.
A federal judge has ordered the state of Idaho to pay $249,875.08 in legal fees to the coalition of nonprofit groups that sued the state claiming its “ag-gag” law criminalizes whistleblowing and violates freedom of speech.
On May 14, 2003, the following poem by Tom Wobker, the Bard of Sherman Avenue, was published in Huckleberries. It provided a light touch to the expanding number of diners who were eating along downtown Coeur d'Alene sidewalks.
For those keeping score at home, Coeur d'Alene School Board Chairwoman Christa Hazel won a write-in election for the local GOP Central Committee precinct committee spot. The significance. She becomes the fifth current or former local school trustee on the Central Committee.
CBS: "Morley Safer, the CBS newsman who changed war reporting forever when he showed GIs burning the huts of Vietnamese villagers and went on to become the iconic 60 Minutes correspondent whose stylish stories on America's most-watched news program made him one of television's most enduring stars died today in Manhattan. He was 84."
Scanner Traffic for Thursday AM (18 items & counting) including police chase of individual who allegedly stole blue Jeep Cherokee in Hayden area. Suspect was eventually cornered by CPD K-9 dog ...
In the Wednesday poll, a majority of Hucks Nation said it was "fairly happy" with the local Idaho GOP primary election results Tuesday. Today's Poll: Do you think more Democrats are crossing over to vote in GOP closed primary than they did when Idaho GOP primaries were open?
On Tuesday, Wayne Hoffman, Brent Regan, IFF/A, Liberty Caucus & Co threw everything they could, including the proverbial kitchen sink at Sen. Shawn Keough and Rep. Luke Malek. The net reult? Sen Keough and Rep Malek won by larger margins in their contested GOP primary contests this year than they did in the 2014 primary.
Coeur d’Alene High boys basketball coach Kurt Lundblad was fired Wednesday. “I’m disappointed, I’m bummed. I’m more sad than anything,” Lundblad said, confirming he had been dismissed. “I loved working with the kids and the relationships I built with them. That hurts the most.”
At 2 p.m today at McEuen Park, Coeur d'Alene Mayor Steve Widmyer will launch a memorial campaign to fund a memorial for the late Sgt Greg Moore and other fallen heroes. The details of the memorial water feature project will be provided at a press...
Donald Trump escalated his attacks on former President Bill Clinton, accusing him of rape in a Fox News interview Wednesday. In an interview on Fox News’s “Hannity,” Sean Hannity compared allegations of Trump harassing women that appeared in The New York Times with accusations made against the former president.
In Idaho, 17 percent of adults smoke regularly, a federal survey shows, but fewer than 3 percent who bought coverage this year on the state’s insurance exchange paid the tobacco surcharge. The deception has insurer's steamed. Non-smokers should be, too, because the lie means the rest of us are paying higher insurance premiums.
In Idaho, according to an Idaho Politics Weekly poll, Republican Donald Trump would beat Hillary Clinton 49% to 32%. But the poll also learned that Idahoans don't like either candidates. In fact, Idaho might turn blue if Bernie Sanders found a way to snatch the Democratic presidential nomination from Clinton.
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.
