It's Friday, it's sunny, I'm out of hours and there's a cold PBR in my fridge. I'll check in throughout the afternoon to make sure nobody needs to be coolered or cyber waterboarded or put in the corner. You get to see me again on Monday. Luckies.
I don't remember hearing any complaints like this about the Lake City's weed-munching goats: Salem, Ore., officials are giving goats the boot because of cost overruns and they stink. AP story here, via KXLY.
A Bonners Ferry man who shot two dogs on a Forest Service Road last year after his dad allegedly told him to “shoot the wolf” was sentenced to two years probation and ordered to pay $1,275 in fines and restitution. Collin Cossairt was sentenced Thursday in Idaho’s District Court for the May, 2015 shooting.
The Idaho Attorney General's office is investigating a political action committee. Spokesman Todd Dvorak tells the Post Register in a story on Friday that the Integrity in Government PAC is being investigated but declined to provide details.
Autumn Englehardt pets her stepmother’s chicken with a bird feather in the front yard of her parents’ home on the 2500 block of West Mallon Avenue, Thursday, Feb 25, 2016, in Spokane. (Colin Mulvany / The Spokesman-Review)
I'm doubling up on the coffee this morning because last night was pool night in our wily Athol-Bayview-Spirit Lake pool league. By the time our family pool team was leaving the Athol Legion Hall, having been spanked by the Linger Longer, the lights were already out at Big Jim's Pastime Club. That's how late of a night it was.
The Senate has killed legislation proposed by the Idaho Sheriff’s Association to add eight additional crimes to the list of felonies for which gun rights aren’t restored after serving time.
The literacy bill that’s had such a rocky path earlier in the session sailed through the House today with just two “no” votes, from Reps. Ron Nate, R-Rexburg, and Heather Scott, R-Blanchard.
The House has voted 42-24 in favor of the bill to ban powdered alcohol, HB 331a. Rep. Gayle Batt, R-Wilder, said the state Liquor Division already can decide which products are sold in the state. She cited an example: Alcoholic popsicles.
It looks like EVERYONE is welcome in the ladies room at the Athol American Legion. I get a chuckle out of this every time our pool team plays at home.
The 911 call from a woman who called for help after her friend had been hit with bear spray during a drug deal was released Thursday. The woman who made the call makes it sound like she was working with authorities to try and arrest her friend who was a wanted fugitive. But she ended up getting arrested too.
After a hearing stretching for nearly two hours, the Senate State Affairs Committee has voted unanimously to send SB 1342, Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll’s Bible in schools bill, to the Senate’s 14th Order for amendments. Senators said they wanted to make sure the measure recognizes that schools may use other religious texts for reference as well.
Good news out of Boise this morning and it's a cause very near and dear to my heart. Betsy Russell, Eye On Boise, reports: Legislative budget writers overwhelmingly backed a budget that includes $971,100 in state funds and 4 new positions to carry out the state’s suicide prevention plan.
A unanimous, 16-0 vote in JFAC this morning set the budget for Medicaid for next year, which reflects a 3.4 percent increase in state general funds; 6.2 percent in total funds.
Through a proposed land swap, Idaho Department of Fish and Game would obtain the Black Lake site off Highway 3 in the chain lakes area owned by Minnaloosa Land Company LLC for 1,402 acres of mostly forested land the state owns 6 miles south of St. Maries.
A 1922 hand-carved carousel spent more than 30 years in Coeur d'Alene, from 1942 to 1975. Forty years after it was sold from its location at Playland Pier, now known as Independence Point, the carousel will have a home in Coeur d'Alene once again.
After a two-hour debate – nearly an hour of which consisted of Sen. Jeff Siddoway’s opening debate – the Idaho Senate has voted 31-4 in favor of SB 1339, a controversial proposal to streamline the process for issuing permits for oil and gas wells.
I missed the GOP debate, but judging from today's news it looks like Trump was true to form. I ran across a quiz this week that is scary-hilarious: "Who tweeted it: Donald Trump or Kanye West?"
Here's a warm, furry miracle for your Friday morning: The AP reports a dog in Kuna was hit by a train 13 times and survived. Question: What do you consider yourself lucky to have survived?
Rathdrum's mayor says the town is growing fast and though it might not make everyone happy, "We know new growth is coming here and there's no stopping it." (I can go a week or longer without going "into town" because I can get most everything I need in Rathdrum now. - Taryn. Non-city dwellers: How long can you go without making a trip to town?)
Kanye West is $53 million in the hole and pleading via twitter for a bailout. Question: Have you ever been down on your luck?
A Legislative panel introduced a measure Thursday that would implement major reforms in the Idaho foster care program in response to complaints lodged against the program last week.
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.
