I know one person who has voted today, in the hospital board and Eastside Highway District races. She's a knowledgeable voter. But she admitted that she was flying blind in voting in the hospital board races. She also voted for our friend John Austin in the Eastside Highway District race. I'm in the same boat as her.
Scanner Traffic for Tuesday PM (19 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic with 19 more items) ...
The Cutline Contest features White House press secretary Sean Spicer calling on a reporter as National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster listens during a White House briefing. Monday Winner: Nic.
If you don’t like dump trucks, stay out of Idaho’s Silver Valley this summer. More than $20 million work of environmental cleanup work in the historic mining district this year will create about 400 jobs and untold numbers of truckloads full of dirt. Becky Kramer/SR reports ...
If you been to City Beach or Independence Point in the last week, you've seen a water jungle gym contraption hundreds feet into the water. It has a slide, swing, diving board and a platform to play on. City staffers refer to it as "Tarzan." A private party placed Tarzan there recently after he was unable to get city permission to do so.
Idaho Sen. Jim Risch, a member of the Senate intelligence and foreign relations committees, has strongly defended President Donald Trump in the midst of the nationwide uproar over reports that he revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week.
You can use this roundup to discuss the local elections being held today. Mike Kennedy reports that he was voter No. 7 at 1:20 p.m. in one of the 2 precincts that vote at Woodland Middle School/CdA.
"If you can read this (musical notes on a scale), thank a music teacher" -- bumpersnicker on violin teacher Cathyanne Nonini's Subaru Outback.
From DFO's archives of 25 years ago comes a column nugget (Huckleberries, May 18, 1992) about a rookie Post Falls Police Department officer who made an impression with a traffic stop on Seltice Way.
In this rhyme from July 2, 2015, Tom Wobker, The Bard of Sherman Avenue, points out that our view of nature is "all relative." Take the robin, for example. The beautiful bird with a lovely song isn't admired by all creatures.
If this helps, I'll re-run the post that I made yesterday that shows the candidates for contested races in local elections. We'll all be voting for the hospital district seats, I suspect. I've also included links to Coeur d'Alene Press stories about some of the election races.
The Route of the Hiawatha rail trail across the Montana-Idaho border will open for hiking and mountain biking on May 27. The 15-mile trail along the abandoned Milwaukee Railroad grade through the Bitterroot Mountains includes 10 tunnels and seven trestles as high as 230 feet between Taft (MT) and the North Fork of the St. Joe River.
Scanner Traffic for Tuesday AM (19 items & counting) ...
The area provided for Fort Sherman -- 999.9 acres -- extended north into the middle of what is now Riverstone -- Jon Mueller (from soon-to-be-released history of Coeur d'Alene's City Park).
AM Headlines: Montana deputy killed in shootout/AP, Lake City rapist finally sent to prison/Press, Spokane's Steam Plant set for upgrade/SR, Crash near Spirit Lake kills juvenile boy/SR, No decision on Renfro change of venue/Press, City Hall staffers play musical chairs/Press, Spokane evicting group that feeds homeless/SR + more ...
Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter says he's endorsing Republican Lt. Gov. Brad Little in Idaho's 2018 governor race. Otter said Monday that while the gubernatorial race currently has a several capable candidates, he's always supported Little. Question: Does Otter's endorsement make a difference for you?)
In the Monday poll, a majority of Hucks Nation expressed concern re: how close the Hanford Nuclear Reservation is, after the recent collapse of a tunnel that involved nuclear waste. Today's Poll: New Miss USA Kara McCullough considers health care a 'privilege' not a right. Do you agree?
On his Facebook wall, Mike Kennedy describes a disgusting situation that he encountered at a Moses Lake gas station, involving a key, a mini-plunger and fast food. Question: Can you describe a disgusting gas station/rest stop/quick stop situation that you've encountered.
Idaho GOP Sen. Jim Risch said the president can declassify anything simply by speaking about it. The Washington Post has reported that President Donald Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week. Risch has issued a statement.
Vikki Moormann, a retired Coeur d'Alene High teacher, describes being held captive in a private Mexican hospital after a diabetic episode. Moormann was kept at the hospital because she couldn't pay $35,000 in medical treatment. She had been on a trip to Nuevo Vallarta on Mexico's Pacific rim when the incident happened.
Huckleberries Tuesday explains how Coeur d'Alene and the Idaho Panhandle became wary of the motives of Washington state in general and Spokane in particular. It began in the region's formative years, according to Jon Mueller, who will soon release a book about the history of Coeur d'Alene's City Park.
Polls are open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. today for a local election that will determine winners of open board seats for the Kootenai Hospital District, Community Library Network, highway districts, Post Falls School District and Bayview Water and Sewer. Voters must go to their designated poll. (Q: Do you plan to vote today?)
The Parting Shot features representativies from law enforcement agencies around Minnesota walking the thin blue line of the Peace Officer sMemorial at the Minnesota State Capitol as part of National Law Enforcement Memorial Day.
So the weekend is over and the sun decides to come out. Well, good for the sun. The jerk. Those of us who work for a living would prefer a weekend of old man sol. But I did get some garden planting in. And Mrs. O and I spent some time with our mothers over the weekend.
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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