Item: Officials: Higher education rankings only part of equation: WSU, UI administrators, professors say value of various college rankings is in eye of the beholder/Yesenia Amaro, Moscow-Pullman Daily NewsMore Info: Eric Spangenberg said his college doesn't "chase" rankings. "I really just believe that we need…
Boise State coach Chris Petersen has taken some heat nationally for not suspending Hout, who tapped Blount on the shoulder pads and said something to him - no one will say exactly what - during the postgame handshakes. Blount responded with his punch and has…
Weekend Poll: 84% of 113 respondents said Mayor Clay Larkin will win re-election in his three-way race. Results here.TGIF Poll: 58% of 182 respondents said they would want their children to hear President Obama's speech to students Tuesday. Results here. <a href="http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1968604/" mce_href="http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1968604/" mce_href="http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1968604/">Should Obama…
Sandpoint volleyball coach Karen Alsager near her home in Sagle. Here’s all you need to know about North Idaho high school volleyball – Sandpoint. Sandpoint will dominate all area teams this fall. The Bulldogs are heavily favored to capture an eighth state championship this decade.…
It was a good old-fashioned yen for bacon that drove me into JB’s Family Restaurant recently on a sweltering late summer afternoon. We do have some mighty fine breakfast joints around, but few stay open long enough to cater to late-arriving bacon cravers such as…
Item: Districts let teachers opt to air speech: Coeur d'Alene cites bad timing in deciding to pass on first day of school/Shawn Vestal, SRMore Info: President Barack Obama will be talking to schoolchildren Tuesday. It’s unclear how many of them in the Inland Northwest will…
It's Labor Day, and I'm off for the day, as many of you are. I don't have much on my schedule today. Mebbe a lunch with the two grandmas in town. Then, some hard-core vegetating around the house. I don't spend a lot of time…
Idaho's Princeton McCarty (20) looks for some running room against New Mexico State in an NCAA college football game Saturday in Las Cruces, N.M. (AP Photo/The Albuquerque Journal, Jim Thompson) Idaho won 21-6. Sportslink story here. And: ESPN boxscore here. (AP Photo/The Albuquerque Journal, Jim…
I went for a long walk along the waterfront Saturday afternoon, starting at the Coeur d'Alene library and turning around at the north end of Rosenberry Drive, where the proposed Education Corridor begins -- about 45 minutes each way when the boardwalk is included. There…
I have mixed emotions as I approach the Labor Day weekend this year. I have a job. But the newspaper industry is still struggling to regain its footing after the recession compounded the ongoing problem of revenue losses. I still have a job. But I…
Tim Lorentz takes his 1994 Chrysler LaBaron/Apollo boat, he calls the Laboata, for a spin on Grand Boulevard and into Manito Park in Spokane. Story here. (Dan Pelle/SR)
BrentA: Took a pizza delivery job last night. Pretty fun. Very lucrative, for a part time job. And easy if you know your way around. I'm making about 80 percent of what I was making this time last year, with all the same bills. One…
Bent: Tell me you haven't killed a thing today and I will call you a big fat liar. Life is life. Period. It is a circle folks. It is called the food chain. Survival of the fittest. … We as humans probably manage that situation…
Look, Blount bears the majority of the blame for the events of Thursday night. He sucker punched (Byron) Hout (shown in red in 2007 as a Lake City Timberwolf) after the trash talking, then shoved a teammate, then tried to attack hostile Boise State fans…
TGIF's Poll: 57% of 161 respondents said they would want their children to hear President Obama's speech to students next week. Full results here. <a href="http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1957737/" mce_href="http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1957737/" mce_href="http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1957737/">Who will win the race for Post Falls mayor in November?</a><span style="font-size:9px;" mce_style="font-size:9px;" mce_style="font-size:9px;">(<a href="http://answers.polldaddy.com" mce_href="http://answers.polldaddy.com" mce_href="http://answers.polldaddy.com">opinion</a>)</span>
People have started dropping out of Facebook, according to the New York Times, for a variety of reasons: 1. Privacy issues. 2. Monotony over the “my-feelings-about-omelets” musings of their 3,000 friends. 3. Free-floating anxiety over corporate tyranny. 4. I guess people are worried that Facebook…
Item: No nudity required in Spokane’s ‘high-intensity’ striptease class/Jonathan Brunt, SR More Info: The fact that the class is open to girls as young as 16 might raise some eyebrows – especially because those who sign up for the parks department’s “Italian for the Traveler”…
Item: Post Falls, Coeur d’Alene mayors face challengers Filing deadline yields host of contested races/Alison Boggs, SRComplete list of Kootenai County municipal racesMore Info: Post Falls Mayor Clay Larkin faces two political newcomers — private investigator Steven De Gon and Matthew Behringer, a 24-year-old who…
Obviously, the lineups are now set for the fall elections in North Idaho communities. In Coeur d'Alene, Mayor Sandi Bloem has token opposition as she seeks her unprecedented third, four-year term as mayor. But there will be fireworks in the three council races where OpenCDA.com's…
The moon rises behind a fan watching Iowa State's game against North Dakota State in the first half of this NCAA college football game Thursday in Ames, Iowa. Iowa State won 34-17. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)SR's Today In Photos
If I am being completely honest, sometimes I cannot believe how asinine certain groups who reside in the Inland Northwest are. The latest bout of insanity comes from so-called “sportsmen” who insist Idaho needs to allow for the hunting of wolves. If I continue being…
University of Idaho student Shane Meyer fell from a third floor window of Delta Tau Delta fraternity last weekend. Meyer is currently being treated in the Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Story here. Jake Barber/ArgonautEx-UIdaho student cleared to sue Ashcroft/APPolice: BSU crowd well-behaved for Oregon…
City Clerk Susan Weathers of Coeur d'Alene told Huckleberries Online a minute ago that no one filed candidacy papers today for the fall mayor and council elections. That means incumbent Sandi Bloem will face Joe Kunka in an attempt to become the first Lake City…
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.
