PM Scanner Traffic -- 4.3.17
Scanner Traffic for Monday PM (16 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic with 19 more items) includes slow-moving grass fire off Remington Road/Athol.
MONDAY, APRIL 3, 2017
Cutline Contest -- 4.3.17 5
The Cutline Contest today features Gonzaga guard Rem Bakamus revealing his thoughts about North Carolina before practice Sunday in Phoenix. Gonzaga and North Carolina meet tonight to decide the NCAA Tournament basketball championship. Weekend Winner: MJhartid.
Little backs grocery sales tax repeal 2
Lt. Gov. Brad Little, who already has announced his candidacy for governor in 2018, is urging Butch Otter to sign the repeal of the grocery sales tax in Idaho. Otter has said that he doesn't support the repeal of the grocery tax.
Yates likely to run for Lt Gov 2
In his column for Idaho Politics Weekly, Chuck Malloy comments that the race for Idaho lieutenant governor may be over before it begins. Steve Yates, the state GOP chairman, likely will run for the post. And he's a slam dunk to win if he does, according to Malloy.
Huckleberry Friends -- 4.3.17
The daily roundup of links to Huckleberries Online social media includes a look at two unique vehicles that Marianne Love/Slight Detour spotted at the Pack River General Store Sunday. Also: Good teachers/Faithful Geek, Your weekly (pub) planner/On Tap, Foster changes/Jim Jones, RP, Who are these singers?/Simple Mind ...
Redux: Sage advice saved city $$$
From the Files of Huckleberries Online (30 years ago): Kootenai County Commissioner Frank Henderson tells readers how Post Falls Highway Commissioner Roy Bodine had saved the city of Post Falls money after Mount St Helens blew.
Press: Hecla, miners need to settle
On Sunday, the Coeur d'Alene Press Editorial Board said it hoped that the Hecla Mining Co. and strike miners would settle soon: "For the sake of a good company and good workers, we hope logic and an honest assessment of negotiating strengths and weaknesses leads to a satisfactory resolution soon."
Christa: Why I will watch Zags rather than attend board meeting 13
Trustee Christa Hazel explains why she will be watching the NCAA Tournament final between the Gonzaga Bulldogs and North Carolina this evening instead of attending a school board meeting. She explains that she married into Zag Nation years ago and will opt for the biggest basketball game in Gonzaga history.
Did you ever ... 13
Huckleberry Friend Dave Chamberlain comments: "I wonder how many of your readers actually ever rode those ponies when it was at Playland Pier. I did. And rode the chain swings over the lake. Did the arcade and bumper cars. Man that was some fun stuff for a young guy." Q: Did you hang out at Playland Pier back in the day?
AM Scanner Traffic -- 4.3.17 1
Scanner Traffic for Monday AM (19 items & counting) includes mother who found her daughter semi-conscious and high on drugs in vehicle behind Flying J this morning ...
McCarthey Center to host watch party
Officials with Gonzaga University announced Sunday that the McCarthey Athletic Center, aka The Kennel, will be hosting a watch party Monday evening as the Gonzaga Bulldogs take on the North Carolina Tar Heels in the team's first NCAA National Championship game in school history. Tipoff is at 6 PM (PDT).
AM Headlines -- 4.3.17
AM Headlines: Idaho Public Records (April 1)/Press, Blanchette: Gonzaga ties bind like no other/SR, Festival at Sandpoint announces headliners/AP, Boisean in homeless suit to run for governor/AP, Conditions have been extreme across region/Press, Special Olympics Penguins take 12th plunge/Press + more ...
Poll: Trump, hardliners will make up 6
In the weekend poll: a plurality of Hucks Nation expects President Donald Trump and the Freedom Caucus to "kiss and make up" after their spat that torpedoed TrumpCare recently. Today's Poll: Gonzaga or North Carolina?
Eye on Boise: The session that was 1
In her Sunday column, Betsy Russell/SR examines the 2017 legislative session. She writes that nothing was down to address Idaho's health coverage gap. Education was a bright point. And transportation and taxes were addressed in fits and starts as the session progressed.
Then & Now: Gonzaga's Przemek Karnowski
In his Then & Now column, SR photog Jesse Tinsley spotlights Gonzaga center Przemek Karnowski: "When the 7-foot kid from Torun, Poland, arrived at Gonzaga University to play basketball in 2012, he made an immediate impact."
Record pike bloodies Hayden angler
Landing Idaho’s catch-and-release record northern pike wasn’t painless for Scott Kerns. “He cut me,” the Hayden resident. “I was bleeding, but that’s OK. We got him back in the water alive.” Rich Landers/SR reports.
Curley: It's OK to cry over the Zags 3
In a column today, Editor Rob Curley/SR admits that he gets sentimental over a wide range of things: Books. Movies. A beautiful column. "All of them," he writes, "can bring me to Tammy Faye levels of public weeping." But it's sports that really get the tear works going. "Hoosiers"? No chance. Now, we have the 2016-17 Gonzaga Bulldogs.
Time for Otter to break out veto pen 2
In his Saturday editorial, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune comments that the mediocre 2017 Legislature left Gov. Butch Otter to clean up the mess it left behind.
Huckleberries: She gave us hope as Leia -- and that hope lives on
Huckleberries Monday launches with thoughts from a Faithful Geek blog post that Nic made shortly after Carrie Fisher died in late December. In the post, Nic tells of Fisher's importance as the actor who gave us Princess Leia to us for 40 years.
SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 2017
Gonzaga 77, South Carolina 73 3
Gonzaga weathered a fierce comeback by South Carolina to win its NCAA Tournament semi-final game and advance to the tourney title game against North Carolina Monday. Link below contains game story by Jacob Thorpe and a package of game photos by Spokesman-Review photographers.
Weekend Wild Card -- 4.1-2.17 9
I was stunned last night to read on my Facebook feed that some people are bothered that the region is ga-ga for the Gonzaga Bulldogs deep run in the NCAA Tournament. They want the mania to be over. Really? With so much bad news and unsettling news happening to us every day, a few people are bothered that most of us are celebrating? Really?
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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