I just checked the 10-day forecast. Highs in the 70s and low 80s into the first week of June. Which means it's finally time to turn on the sprinkler and plant the tomatoes and other warm weather plants. We've been waiting for this stretch all year. I hope you have restful or interesting weekend plans.
The Parting Shot today features workers preparing to take down the statue of Robert E. Lee, former president of the Confederacy, in New Orleans today. The city is completing the removal of four Confederate-related statues.
I hope old Sol isn't teasing us today. I'd like to take my daily stroll along the waterfront with the sun shining on our Inland Northwest paradise. Who knows? If the sun keeps shining next week, I might have to break out the bike. Once the weather officially breaks, of course, the tourists move in to clog our parks, beaches and waterways.
Scanner Traffic for Friday PM (15 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic with 16 more items) includes Rathdrum resident disturbing neighborhood by shooting off cannon ...
The Cutline Contest today features former high school cheerleaders performing back flips while enjoying the record breaking heat at Old Orchard Beach, Maine. Thursday Winner: gitrdun.
Lookout Pass Ski and Recreation Area plans to spend about $10 million over the next several years on new ski runs, chairlifts and an addition to its lodge. The ski area on the Idaho-Montana border received final U.S. Forest Service approval Friday to expand its operations on federal land. Becky Kramer/SR reports ...
Here's another Huckleberries nugget from 25 years ago. On May 25, 1992, The "Parting Shot" began: "Eli Ross, that wild and crazy new guy-elect on the Coeur d'Alene School Board, will have to change his sleeping habits. Board meetings sometimes wander into the wee hours." More below.
Researchers at Washington State University need volunteers for a study to develop a breathalyzer for pot. The breathalyzer would need to accurately detect “acute exposure” to tetrahydrocannabinol. Taylor Nadauld/Moscow Pullman Daily News reports ...
Do you think Congressman Raul Labrador should resign while running for Idaho governor? Democratic state Rep. Matt Erpelding does.
A poem that Tom Wobker, The Bard of Sherman Avenue, comes to mind as Memorial Day approaches. On Feb. 25, 2009, his poem, "To A Snow Pile in the Street" appeared in my Huckleberries column. With our long winter barely over, it seems appropriate today.
In an editorial for the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, Devin Rokyta comments about the collapse of a wood-and-dirt tunnel built to contain rail cars filled with radioactive waste at Hanford Nuclear Reservation: "Even in the absence of radioactive bugs, the government still has quite the predicament on its hands."
In a post from her blog, A Business Doing Pleasure, Heather Branstetter provides her schedule of reading and signing events for her new history book of the Wallace area sex trade: "Selling Sex in the Silver Valley: A Business Doing Pleasure." Heather will conduct a reading at 7 tonight at the Wallace Brewing Company's tasting room.
Scanner Traffic for Friday AM (16 items & counting) ...
In the Thursday poll, Hucks Nation, overwhelmingly, opposed the idea of vendors being allowed to anchor aquatic play platforms off the Coeur d'Alene shoreline. More than 78% opposed the idea. Today's Poll: Is anyone in your extended family homeless?
Idaho Sen. Jim Risch’s defense of President Donald Trump’s reported May 10 disclosure of classified intelligence to Russian officials is the trigger for another protest Friday at the senator’s Boise office. Bill Dentzer/Idaho Statesman reports ...
Have you ever had a bad date? Well, Brandon Vezmar of Austin, Texas, is suing a woman for a bad date. The met on a dating app. Vezmar the woman, Crystal Cruz, ruined their date and movie-going experience. Now, the woman is speaking out. (Q: Describe the worst date that you've been on.)
AM Headlines: Public Records (May 19)/Press, Rathdrum Mountain on display Saturday/Press, Worley to celebrate centennial on June 3/Press, Bond hiked to $1M for murder suspect Kelly/Press, North Idaho victim: 'I just paid $400 to get raped'/KREM, Kennewick Coast Guard crew rescued from river/Herald + more ...
In a letter to the Coeur d'Alene Press, Shirley Thagard of Hayden writes that non-gender specific bathrooms have been the rule of thumb for some time for public transportation such as tour buses, trains and planes. She has only one qualm re: others using a non-gender specific bathroom.
After years of declining ticket sales and seemingly endless conflicts with animal rights groups, Ringling Bros. will stage its final show in Uniondale, N.Y. National Public Radio reports. (Question: When and where did you last attend a circus?)
Roger E. Ailes, who shaped the images that helped elect three Republican presidents and then became a dominant, often-intimidating force in American conservative politics at the helm of Fox News until he was forced out last year in a sexual harassment scandal, died on Thursday...
In his column today, Shawn Vestal/SR says there's a silver lining behind the statistic that shows homelessness is up in Spokane. Rob McCann says that's good news because it means that homeless people are finding shelter and being counted. (Question: Have you ever been homeless?)
Former Coeur d'Alene Police Chief Wayne Longo remembers the night that he was one of the first responders to the Idaho State Police District 1 HQ, where Trooper Linda Huff had been gunned down in an exchange of gunfire. As the nation observes police week, Longo remembers Huff and Coeur d'Alene PD Sgt Greg Moore ...
In a comment, Campbay says that "ultraconservatives armed to the teeth" are a greater danger to the peace of the Inland Northwest than Mexican farm laborers. (Question: Which concerns you more: Ultraconservatives armed to the teeth or Mexican farm workers?)
In his Cheers & Jeers column today, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune gives Jeers to ... Reps. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, Mike Kingsley, R-Lewiston, Priscilla Giddings, R-White Bird, and Ron Nate, R-Rexburg. Why are these self-appointed guardians of Idaho's probity so quiet when there's a scandal to address?
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.
