D.F. Oliveria
Dave Oliveria writes the Huckleberries Online Blog and the Huckleberries print column.
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- Email: daveo@spokesman.com
- Phone: 208-765-7125
- Fax: 208-765-7149
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Recent stories by Dave
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Huckleberries: Though the end is near, he’ll meet it his way
June 9, 2013 in City, Idaho on Page B10 Larry Justus, who operates the Lakeland RV Park on Bayview Creek with wife, Liz, has a lung disease with a name that friend Herb Huseland of Bayview can’t pronounce. The …
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Huckleberries: Kennedy claims career is marked by ‘nontroversy’
June 2, 2013 in City, Idaho on Page B2 Coeur d’Alene Councilman Mike Kennedy thought he’d struck gold Thursday when he conjured the word “nontroversy.” According to Mike’s definition, “nontroversy” means roughly “a ginned up scandal, controversy or otherwise … 2
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Huckleberries: Mack won’t be held up by vote this time
May 26, 2013 in City, Idaho on Page B10 Sheriff Richard Mack, the tea party darling from Texas/Arizona, will return to North Idaho in July – and he didn’t need an invitation from the dysfunctional Kootenai County GOP Central …
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Huckleberries: North Idaho’s right turn being driven by exiles
May 19, 2013 in City, Idaho on Page B7 On Tuesday, we’ll learn whether Kootenai County archconservatives who call themselves “Republicans” for politics’ sake will keep total control of the Coeur d’Alene School Board. And establish beachheads on the … 4
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Huckleberries: Word of advice brings chocolate-chip reward
May 12, 2013 in City, Idaho on Page B2 Everyone seems related to everyone else in North Idaho. This includes the female jogger that S-R sports scribe Greg Lee and I met near the LCSC/UIdaho branch campus Wednesday. We …
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Huckleberries: Tourism tip omits CdA’s construction disarray
May 5, 2013 in City, Idaho on Page B3 In her article “Idaho one cool destination at one cool price,” Clara Bosonetto of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution touts cheap air rates in getting from Atlanta to Boise ($266 round trip). …
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Huckleberries: Mayor Bloem’s departure a win for hard-liners
April 28, 2013 in City, Idaho on Page B10 Now, we all know what Mayor Sandi Bloem meant at the annual Human Rights Banquet on Monday when she said she’d return to the feast in 2014, but maybe not … 3
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Huckleberries: You are free to say what they want you to say
April 21, 2013 in City, Idaho on Page B3 No one can blame the Kootenai County commissioners for adopting a social media policy for county employees. The Spokesman-Review has one, too. But some of the 16 guidelines approved by … 2
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Huckleberries: Councilman’s free parking stratagem shot down
April 7, 2013 in City, Idaho on Page B1 You may know that Coeur d’Alene Councilman Steve Adams decided not to appeal a judge’s decision to allow sewer expansion without a public vote. But did you know that Adams … 5
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Huckleberries: GOP committee shows love for Steve Adams
March 31, 2013 in City, Idaho on Page B3 City Attorney Mike Gridley may think Steve Adams is a moron (for threatening legal action that could sidetrack a federally mandated expansion of the sewer plant). And Mayor Sandi Bloem …
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Huckleberries: CdA officials regress to grade-school antics
March 24, 2013 in City, Idaho on Page B7 Do you suppose that the hard-working 911 dispatcher bit her tongue when Coeur d’Alene Councilman Steve Adams SOS’d to tattle on City Attorney Mike Gridley? A short version of the …
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Huckleberries: Sandpoint High grad has had papal beat for 25 years
March 17, 2013 in City, Idaho on Page B3 The selection of Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio as the new pope wasn’t Cindy Wooden’s first papal rodeo. The Sandpoint native has covered three popes in her 25 years as the … 1
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Huckleberries: Potty mouth exchange at council sanitized
March 10, 2013 in City, Idaho on Page B2 New Coeur d’Alene City Clerk Renata McLeod is too proper to insert that nasty exchange between Councilman Steve Adams and City Attorney Mike Gridley in her draft minutes of the … 1
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Huckleberries: ‘Crucible’ boasts political players; ‘Sweeney’ superb
March 3, 2013 in City, Idaho on Page B3 Ron Lahr, president of Kootenai County’s Reagan Republicans, tells Huckleberries that he speaks four words in “The Crucible.” Which is the intense play about the 1692-’93 Salem witch trials in …
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Huckleberries: Wolfinger defends right to miss recent gun rally
January 27, 2013 in City, Idaho on Page B3 An Athol gun lover gave new Kootenai County Sheriff Ben Wolfinger a razzberry for not attending that Second Amendment rally in Coeur d’Alene on Jan. 19. In a letter to … 1
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Huckleberries: Crackdown on drugs is nothing to sniff at
January 20, 2013 in City, Idaho on Page B1 Nic Casey, of Coeur d’Alene, hasn’t purchased rubber cement for some time. But he’ll be ready with his driver’s license if he has to do so. You may think rubber …
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Huckleberries: Breakthrough for common good – imagine that
January 13, 2013 in City, Idaho on Page B3 ’Tis nice that warring elected officials in the Coeur d’Alene area could come together, as in times past, to do the right thing for the common good. The tentative deal …
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Huckleberries: ‘McScrew’em Park’ enlivens council meeting
January 6, 2013 in City, Idaho on Page B2 Coeur d’Alene Councilman Mike Kennedy was ready when school board Chairman Tom Hamilton approached the lectern during the public comments section of the council meeting Wednesday. First the bait. Kennedy … 1
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Huckleberries: Campaign coincidence has Seymour’s number
December 23, 2012 in City, Idaho on Page B1 In spring 2011, there was a minor flap about the post office box number for the Coeur d’Alene School Board campaign supporting candidates Tom Hamilton and Terri Seymour. Inadvertently, the … 2
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Huckleberries: School tragedy leaves heartbreaking questions
December 16, 2012 in City, Idaho on Page B7 Coeur d’Alene kindergarten teacher Jen Rude wrote this in her blog, A Butterfly Moment, on Friday, after learning of the senseless Newtown, Conn., massacre: “Here I sit, in a room …

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