Idaho Rep. Raul Labrador pressed a sweeping immigration enforcement bill Thursday that would add 12,500 additional armed federal immigration officers, penalize sanctuary cities, enlist state and local police in federal immigration enforcement, impose new criminal penalties and step up detentions and deportations.
JohnA, who just won a three-way race for a seat on the East Side Highway District board, was disappointed with the low turnout in his race and the other local elections countywide. But he still has no use for Sen. Mary Souza's idea that these nonpartisan races should be folded into -- and lost in -- partisan general elections.
ESPY was out of breath when former Coeur d'Alene mayor Sandi Bloem poked her head into his spinning class at the Kroc Center. But he has a message for her in the Huckleberries commentary none-the-less.
That aquatic jungle gym that has attracted the anger of residents and city hall officials has been moved west from the water off City Beach to a spot off North Idaho College Beach. It was sitting unoccupied off the north shore when I walked past…
There’s talk once again of reopening the storied Bunker Hill Mine in the Silver Valley. A Canadian company says it wants to buy the long-closed mine in Kellogg with an eye toward restarting production there, just a mile west of the ski slopes of Silver Mountain. Scott Maben/SR reports ...
JohnA (who was elected to the East Side Highway District board Tuesday night): "Well, it's clearly not a mandate but by 28 votes I was able to prevail in the election. I'd like to thank everyone who voted and made your choice heard (Tuesday night)."
Heather Branstetter, the author of "Selling Sex in the Silver Valley: A Business of Doing Pleasure," now has a blog, A Business of Doing Pleasure. In her latest post, she reports that the first run of books has sold out and that another run will provide books in the first week of June.
On May 25, 1992, nearly 25 years ago, I wrote of an interesting fender-bender that occurred in front of the North Idaho Museum -- and was handled by CPD watch commander Bill Bozlee.
In the good old days, Canadians voted in North Idaho elections (see: Kennedy-Brannon recount, city of Coeur d'Alene). Now, they're actually on ballots. Sorta. Election workers had to black out 13,000 ballots after discovering that candidate Michelle Anderson is a Canadian. And she still received 250 votes.
Before he was accused of this week’s fatal shooting of a Montana sheriff’s deputy, an antigovernment extremist (Lloyd Barrus, 61) was involved in an eerily similar high-speed chase and gunfight with officers in California that included downing a police helicopter. Bill Morlin of the Southern Poverty Law Center reports ...
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The Kootenai County Sheriff's Office will offer its 8th active shooter class next month -- from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, June 24, in the VSAR Building, 10865 Ramsey Road, Hayden. The class focuses on surviving an active shooter event.
In her Front Porch column, Cindy comments that guilt-free mothers are mythical creatures, much like unicorns with rainbow wings. "Don't believe me?" she asks. "Google the words mother and guilt and you'll get more than 10 million hits."
Don't look to Idaho Sen. Jim Risch to follow in the footsteps of Sens. Howard Baker, R-Tenn., or Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz. Both Baker and Goldwater put principle ahead of their Republican president during the Watergate crisis of the 1970s. Serving on the Watergate committee, Baker...
AM Headlines: Public Records (May 18)/Press, Aquatic jungle gym raises CdA concerns/KHQ, Enjoy a day for kids Saturday at McEuen/Press, Ministry eviction spotlights local homelessness/SR, Idaho's first medical school slated to open in'18/SR, Spirit Lake Chinook study needs anglers' help/Outdoors + more ...
In the Wednesday poll, a plurality of Hucks Nation said the state could boost turnout in the nonpartisan, off-year spring elections by opting for a vote-by-mail system similar to Oregon and Washington. Today's Poll: Should Coeur d'Alene allow vendors to anchor floating aquatic play platforms off its beaches?
Commenter Arpie explains election results in the Lake Pend Oreille School Board trustee races Tuesday. Seems there was an attempt by conservative hardliners (does this sound familiar) to take over the school board. The more someone was aligned with the Redoubt movement, Arpie says, the worse they did.
Idaho awarded its highest law enforcement honor, the Idaho Medal of Honor, posthumously Wednesday to Coeur d’Alene Police Sgt. Greg Moore, who was shot to death by a suspect in May of 2015 while he patrolled a quiet neighborhood after midnight. Betsy Russell/Eye on Boise reports ...
Columnist Doug Clark/SR takes aim at the latest attempt by Spokane's "tourism chuckleheads" to come up with a slogan that fits the Lilac City. Clark says community boosters have tossed "nearly $250,000 down a marmot hole for a new, lame civic slagon that is even lamer than the last lame slogan they tagged us with."
Acting Superintendent Trina Caudle of the Coeur d'Alene School District will earn an extra $3,000 per month while performing the duties of superintendent. Keith Cousins/Coeur d'Alene Press looks at the new salary arrangement between the district and Caudle.
City Attorney Mike Gridley and environmental officials walked the old Atlas Mill site west of Coeur d'Alene Wednesday morning to familiarize themselves with the 47 acres that the city hopes to purchase for about $8M. Ralph Bartholdt/Coeur d'Alene Press reports ...
If you hold an election and only 5.68 percent show up, does it still count? Seems so. Despite the lousy turnout in Kootenai County on Tuesday, candidates were still elected to seats for highway, school, water, library and hospital districts. In Huckleberries Thursday, DFO suggests it's time for Idaho to change to vote-by-mail.
State Sen. Mary Souza is riding her hobby horse again, planning to bring back a bill that would combine nonpartisan elections with partisan general elections, to boost turnout. She points to the dismal turnout Tuesday to validate her crusade. If Mary truly wanted to boost turnout, she would push for vote by mail not a combo election.
The Parting Shot today features President Donald Trump saluting as he leaves commencement exercises at the U.S. Coast Guar Academy in New London, Conn.
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.
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