The Parting Shot today features a woman at the San Francisco International Airport who is waiting anxiously for her mother to return from a visit to Baghdad, Iraq. President Donald Trump has issued an executive order barring citizens of seven predominantly Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S.
I read a few more chapters of "The Street Agent" by Wayne Manis over the weekend. Wayne, of course, was the FBI agent assigned to Coeur d'Alene during the turbulent 1980s when violent Aryan strains (The Order 1 & 2) were running amok and in the 1990s when his agency brought down the gambling/drug/prostitution activities in Shoshone County ...
Scanner Traffic for Monday PM (13 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic with 21 more items) ...
The Cutline Contest today features wind-blown Japanese citizens in the Chinatown area in Yokohama, near Tokyo. Weekend Winner: thatBruceguy.
In a column this week, Chris Carlson/Carlson Chronicles says Idaho Democrats should fire executive director Sally Boynton-Brown for her pandering before the National Democratic Committee. Brown wants to be national chairman. But Carlson insists that she embarrassed Idaho with her comments on race.
So Cindy's grocery shopping when a guy excuses himself in the bread aisle and reaches above her. Sez he: "You smell really good." You can read the rest of the short conversation below. Question: When did you last have a weird experience with a stranger while shopping or otherwise minding your own business?
The daily links from the social media network for HucksOnline includes a walk along Sand Creek with Marianne Love/Slight Detour. Also: Stone cold crazy/Fort Boise, Your weekly planner/On Tap, I have the tech blues/Simple Mind, Openings: SpIFF is feline great/7 Blog, A Legislature like the people?/Randy Stapilus + more ...
An alert Coeur d'Alene police officer was responsible for apprehending 2 suspects allegedly involved in several auto burglaries. After he gave chase, the suspects, both 22 and from Florida, crashed off the NW Blvd/I-90 on-ramp, got stuck, and then allegedly tried to car-jack a vehicle at a nearby service station.
More than 100,000 Idahoans have signed up for 2017 health insurance coverage through the state insurance exchange, Your Health Idaho, and the exchange is reminding Idahoans that the deadline to sign up for the coming year is Tuesday at midnight.
In his Idaho Politics Weekly column, Chuck Malloy notes that Rep. Vito Barbieri, R-Dalton Gardens, is no friend of the local chambers of commerce. Which might be a problem for the chambers because Barbieri is chairman of the House Business Committee.
Rep. Steven Harris, R-Meridian, introduced legislation today to remove a little-known restriction from Idaho law, dating back to 1988, that he suggested appears to make it illegal to remotely start your car to warm it up.
In my first Walk Along the Shoreline this year, I spotted this sign blocking the west entrance to the Coeur d'Alene Resort Boardwalk. So I snapped a photo of it with my handy-dandy new iPhone 7 -- another first. If you look beyond the "Road Closed" sign, you'll see snow and ice on the boardwalk.
Idaho’s investment of nearly $1 million last year to launch a new state Office of Suicide Prevention came “in the nick of time,” state public health Administrator Elke Shaw-Tulloch told JFAC this morning. 362 people in Idaho killed themselves in 2015, a 13% increase over 2016. Idaho now ranks 5th in nation re: highest suicide rate.
More than half of likely voters polled by the right-leaning firm Rasmussen Reports support President Trump banning refugees from seven Muslim-majority nations entering the U.S., according to a new poll.
Idaho Democrats in the House and Senate have introduced the “Add the Words” bill – to add the words “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to the Idaho Human Rights Act to ban discrimination on those grounds – as a personal bill in the Idaho House, just in time for Friday’s deadline for introduction of personal bills.
AM Headlines: City eyes vacation rental regs/Press, Vandals target Spokane GOP office/KHQ, Idaho 5th in USA for suicide rate/EOBoise, Democrats introduce 'Add the Words'/EOBoise, Rep Jordan: My ancestors backed immigration/EOBoise, Judge halts grazing in Oregon forest to protect frog/AP + more ...
Scanner Traffic for Monday AM (21 items & counting) includes crash of suspect in string of auto burglaries as officers pursue him. Crash occurs off I-90/NW Blvd intersection. Male taken into custody ...
Kimberlee Kruesi of the Associated Press posted this screen shot of a tweet by Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, complaining that she's still Committee-less in Boise. Methinks that Rep. Scott should look in a mirror when she's looking for someone to blame for her predicament.
Jadd Davis, artistic director for Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre, attended a meeting of Lake City Playhouse supporters last night. The Lake City Playhouse is trying to regroup after its recent Modern Theater misfire. Jadd writes to his Facebook Friends: Give the Lake City Playhouse a chance to rebound.
Before a room packed full of silently disapproving immigration supporters, the House State Affairs Committee voted Monday morning to introduce legislation proposed by Rep. Greg Chaney, R-Caldwell, to discourage “sanctuary cities” in Idaho by cutting off state sales tax funding to them. Betsy Russell/SR reports ...
In the Weekend Wild Card, A near supermajority of Hucks Nation says outspoken Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, shouldn't be given her committee assignments back. Today's Poll: Do you support/oppose President Trump's order that would stop flow of immigrants from Muslim countries?
Spokane protesters joined an eruption of anger and exasperation across the country as President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to stop the flow of immigrants from Muslim nations became reality with a sweeping executive order this weekend. Question: Do you support/oppose President Trump's immigration order?
Roger’s Ice Cream & Burgers opens (today) in its new 2,900-square-foot building at 403 N. Spokane St. (south of I-90) in Post Falls. Nils Rosdahl, of Business Bits/Coeur d'Alene Press, reports. Question: Any Roger's fans out there?
Idaho GOP Rep. Raúl Labrador, R-Idaho, in a statement issued Sunday, praised President Trump’s new executive order suspending refugee arrivals and barring entry to the U.S. from seven Muslim-majority countries, calling it “bold.”
Unbeaten and now No. 1. Gonzaga moved up to top spot Monday in the AP college basketball poll. The voting wasn’t all that close, like most of the Zags’ games this season. All it took was Gonzaga’s unprecedented 22-0 start and stumbles by power conference teams last week when upsets rocked the top 10. Jim Meehan/SR reports ...
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.
