AP Photo/Mike GrollDemocratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., greets supporters following a rally at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y., earlier today. New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, right, endorsed Clinton's presidential campaign with other top state Democrats.A YouTube message by Bill re: Hillary hereQuestion:…
When I graduated high school, I had no idea what I was supposed to do with myself. I really had no interest in going to college, but I also didn’t really want to work crap jobs the rest of my life. One day the Marine…
Eagle Eye: Can anyone in the know explain the 270K for two part time vice principals? Christy Wood? Amend? I am trying to be an informed voter.Christie Wood: Eagle Eye thank you for an opportunity to address this. I am on my lunch hour so…
... The Coeur d’Alene Police CARE team (traffic team) will be working a "zero tolerance" traffic emphasis on US95 from Appleway to Prairie Ave. on Wednesday. This will be a joint effort with Idaho State Police. Officers will be working aggressive driving to include, but…
Try getting a job these days without peeing in a cup. Hate to break this to you, kids, but your urine is no longer sacred. If you want a job, odds are you're going to have to let your employer check for illegal drugs. Is…
... that Coeur d'Alene School District trustee wannabe Brad St. John has irritated parents/educators by posting his campaign signs at the entrance to Dalton Gardens Elementary School. They're now checking on the legality of posting signs in a public right of way that close to…
Stefan RosseauBritain's Prime Minister Tony Blair joins in a tennis lesson at Windsor High School in Halesowen, England, earlier today. The school was one of five on the Prime Minister's whistle-stop farewell cross-country tour marking his decade in Downing Street. Britain's Labour party will announce…
Item: $1 million gift puts center on target: Albertson Foundation donates to Kroc project/Amy Cannata, Spokesman-ReviewMore Info: Supporters have the money they need to break ground next month on the $70 million Salvation Army Kroc Community Center in Coeur d'Alene, after the J.A. and Kathryn…
Merle Parsley, an ex-state senator from Sandpoint, recalls his scrape with the late Ron Rankin differently. Last week, Huckleberries told of the 1966 fight at the old North Shore resort parking lot between Parsley and Rankin. Rankin's wife, Alice, and eyewitness Gary Ingram confirmed the…
I forgot to mention that I talked to Merle Parsley by phone Friday evening. Merle? He's the other combatant in the 1966 thrilla with the late Ron Rankin. I posted Merle's version of the fight last week. But he followed up with a phone call…
Well, Major John Chamness and Mayor Sandi Bloem were pretty excited albeit secretive Thursday and today re: a major announcement later this morning re: the Kroc Center. I'd guess they're going to say that the $6M local match has been reached to wrap up the…
What is your favorite indulgence? -- Idaho Statesman. *Chocolate*Fried food*Chips*Red meat*Candy*Other
This was the price of gas at our Costco here in Bellingham the other day. It's basically the cheapest place in town to get gas. I found one other station that was basically as cheap. Not sure how they can mark down so much. The…
Last Democrat In Idaho: What? What was that DFO? "... visionary community leaders expanding infrastructure to prepare us for inevitable growth???" Can you give me some solid examples of this greatly expanded infrastructure, other than the second high school? In my senile stupidity, I guess…
Item: Green Beret raised in Coeur d'Alene killed in Iraq/KXLYBrad graduated from Kellogg High School in 1984. He was a great kid, and was best friends with my husband's brother. Here is what was told us about his death.Early this Wednesday morning, May 9th, Cyndi…
firstskeinspins outmotorboatplanes the indigowaking waves from sleeping waterSue Turner/Tumblewords
Another week's in the books, HBOers. I'm enjoying the new vibes from the new direction this blog has taken. We had a little nastiness re: Real Life Ministries. Other than that, it's been all good -- and the introduction of Alice Rankin's Garden Spot and…
Sunday nights in downtown Coeur d’Alene can be a little eerie. Most of the week, the area is full of nightlife, revelers hopping from bar to bar, live music pouring out onto the streets. However, on Sunday evenings the place turns into a virtual ghost…
Marianne Love/Slight Detour included this photo among the "faces of 2007 Idaho State Forestry Contest: 25 years at the home of Ray and Fairy Delay in Careywood." If you look closely, you'll recognize SR photographer Jesse Tinsley (left) and SReporter Jim Hagengruber (center) on assignment.…
*Sightem (at Coeur d'Alene Tribe powwow at NIC), a T-shirt message that said: "I'm part white, but I can't prove it."...*Huckleberries hears ... that our old friend Spencer has been hanging out at the Coeur d'Alene Press for the last two days, trying to sell…
A Coeur d'Alene soldier based out of Fort Lewis, Wash., was killed Wednesday by a roadside bomb in Iraq. Sgt. Maj. Bradly D. Conner, 41, died near Al-Hillah, Iraq when an improvised explosive device went-off near his vehicle, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.…
Photo provided by YAOW/WYOW Television Inc., APThis undated image from provided by WAOW/WYOW Television, Inc., shows Lucy, a calf born May 4, with two noses on Mark Krombholz's hobby farm in Lincoln County Wis. The second, smaller nose sits on top of the first. Breeder…
For those who earn less than $35,000 ... this ($3 gas prices and higher) is just the beginning of the end and there are a LOT of families out there with $35,000. Or less. With $800 rent and now $200 for gas ... where will…
Jesse Tinsley/Spokesman-ReviewBartender Daina Oliver talks about her former neighbors Rick and Rose Turner at the bar in the Calder Store today. The Turners were found at the scene of what appears to be a domestic gunfight in which Rick and Rose' parents were found dead…
... HBO's latest weird animal shot. Remember the one-eyed cat? Check back in after lunch ...
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.
