In a dramatic decision that brought down the house, the Idaho State Board of Education Monday resurrected the University of Idaho College of Art and Architecture. Hundreds of UI students stood and cheered as the board voted 5-2 to reverse a 2002 decision that dissolved…
Breaking: Suspected serial killer Joseph Edward Duncan III (shown above with Shasta Groene shortly before a few hours before his capture) used his young captives to produce graphic child porn videos, authorities acknowledged for the first time today/Taryn Brodwater, Spokesman-Review, here.2. Supreme Court nominee Hariet…
I'll be MIA for about 90 minutes this afternoon (1:30 to 3 p.m.) because I'll be involved in taping an on-air interview with Tony Stewart at North Idaho College. Tony will be interviewing Bill Morlin and me about our 25 years of covering the Aryans…
Issue: What Would Ron Rankin Do?DFO: Today is the 29th anniversary of my father's death in a vehicle accident in central California. As I was thinking about that, my mind jumped to Kerri Thoreson and her family, which recently observed the first anniversary of The…
Apparently, Kootenai County property owners have embraced the local-option tax, which shifts the cost of jail expansion off the unpopular property tax and onto the sales tax, paid to some extent by out-of-county visitors and tourists. The cost of the expansion causes sticker shock —…
1. APhoto Fix: Saddam Hussein, right, and Awad Hamad al-Bandar, former chief of the Revolutionary Court, listen to the Presiding Judge as their trial begins in a heavily fortified courthouse in Baghdad's Green Zone, Iraq, earlier today. Hussein pleaded innocent to charges of murder and…
This one was too good to pass up. So, I moved it from Quick Fix 6 to become Photo of the Day. Here, Pennsylvania officers drag a tranquilized deer from a Weis supermarket in Reading, Pa., Monday. The 130-pound deer crashed through the front window…
re: from the SR Daily Briefing blog re: the behind-the-scenes decision on which of two Washington stories to run in the Idaho edition:Part of today's discussion was determining which of two stories our Idaho readers would be least interested in: New Gonzaga-themed license plates, or…
Here's the guy you read about in Huckleberries Best of the Northwest today: Barney Longacre of Frenchtown, Mont., applies liquid asphalt in his shop Monday, Oct.17, 2005, to a mirror frame he is making for first lady Laura Bush. Longacre and his wife, Judy, make…
Question: Why in God's name was a church's shunning of a member front page news? --HBO Commenter Sue Haynes to Spokesman-Review editors re. this story here.Answer: We placed Virginia de Leon’s excellent story about church shunning on the front page because we thought readers would…
I have a paperback on my office desk, featuring "The World's Dumbest Criminals." It was an office Christmas gift. I haven't looked at it in awhile. But I have a nominee for any followup books -- the clowns who were trying to pass off fake…
Jackie McAvoy: Heavily involved in community organizations. She serves on more boards and committees than I have fingers and toes. She punctuated several questions by saying: I serve on a committee for that. She emphasized that she's the only one of the three contestants who…
Kootenai County and other areas of our great state are flush with the newfound riches that escalating property values and a strong overall economy have fostered. We're spending those riches and committing future fortunes smug in the certainty that the good times will just keep…
This one was too good to pass up. So, I moved it from Quick Fix 6 to become Photo of the Day. Here, Pennsylvania officers drag a tranquilized deer from a Weis supermarket in Reading, Pa., Monday. The 130-pound deer crashed through the front window…
What would you tell President Bush regarding his choice of Harriet Miers? 1. Push forward, Miers is the best person for the job 2. Keep her, and get her to publicly say she'd overturn Roe v. Wade 3. Hold the Senate hearings and let the…
Arlene Mitzimberg had to walk around the yellow tape to retrieve her mother's laundry from the laundromat at the Tamarack Trailer Park after the bodies of two men were found by the daughter of one of the men in the airstream trailer in the background…
Here, you have actor Peter Mayhew, right, who played Chewbacca in the "Star Wars" movies. Now a resident of Branberry, Texas, Mayhew, 60, was among 400 people from 77 countries to become an American today in ceremonies at Arlington, Va. 'Tis a nice photo. And…
I ask myselfwill I join a churchto amplify my prayers,to blanket this pain,quiet in fellowship.Or will I kneel alonein a corner at home, pride naked and drowntheir softly rising wordsof worship, shrieking.Bob Salsbury/Unbearable Bobness of Being
A few days ago we went for an early evening walk through Coeur d'Alene's City Park and Beach. I was really surprised to find the place completely empty at 5:30 p.m., but I guess that's what happens on fall days when the tourists are gone.…
CPD Blue are investigating another possible murder-suicide at the Tamarack Mobile Home park, next to Rockin' Robin restaurant (southeast of the old Sunset Bowling Alley), possibly involving an elderly man and his sixtysomething son. Stay tuned.
A firefighter picks up debries after a small single-engine plane crashed near Paine Field airport in Everett, Wash., Saturday morning, Oct. 15, 2005, killing all three people on board, according to the Federal Aviation Administration/Dustin Snipes, Seattle Times. See Item No. 3.1. Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist…
This photo supplied by the Magazine Publishers Association and American Society of Magazine Editors show The New Yorker's March 29, 1976 cover with a drawing of New York's West Side and then a perspective of the rest of the country, which was deemed as the…
Leggings, silver shoes and a witch hat sit under a Wicked Witch sign painted on a house in the middle of a suburban street while another house sits off its' foundation in the background in the St. Bernard Parish of New Orleans, La. You write…
Mayor Bloem has shown she deserves a second term Coeur d'Alene City Council endorsements: Mike Kennedy, Deanna Goodlander & Woody McEvers.Coming this week: Post Falls City Council endorsement and editorial on half-cent sales tax
1. APhoto Fix: An Iraqi man reads a paper carrying a picture of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein on its front page in Baghdad earlier today. Saddam Hussein's trial will start Wednesday.2. Cartoon Fix: Larry Wright (Golden parachutes), Jeff Stahler (Addictive blogosphere), and Bill Schorr…
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.
