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• Huckleberries: These public fountains fall short of city code

  Aug. 7, 2011 in City on Page B2 A whole lotta peein’s goin’ on in downtown Coeur d’Alene after hours. And, judging from the latest Downtown Bar Report, not all of that urine is finding its way into …

• Huckleberries: Economic times hardly comical

  July 17, 2011 in City on Page B3 Somewhere between “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” in 1986 and Priest Lake in 2011, actor Ben Stein (boring economics teacher in “Bueller”) got sexy. At least, that’s the opinion of a …

• Huckleberries: Hagadone’s partner has plenty of space to hide

  July 10, 2011 in City, Idaho on Page B1 If you look from the sky, as Google Earth does, at Jerry Jaeger’s 10,000-square-foot mansion, you might think it’s shaped like a gray handgun. The house belonging to Duane Hagadone’s … 1

• Huckleberries: Solidarity is in the mind of statue beholder

  June 26, 2011 in City, Idaho on Page B2 In response to criticism about the small protest against the public art statue of Hindu god Ganesha in downtown Coeur d’Alene June 10, Kootenai County Constitution Party Chairman Daniel Brennan … 3

• Huckleberries: Changes to McEuen Field will make it shine

  May 29, 2011 in City on Page B10 Huckleberries isn’t surprised that proposed changes to Coeur d’Alene’s McEuen Field attracted a crowd of boo-birds. A quarter to a third of Coeur d’Alene opposes any public project. We call …

• Huckleberries: He didn’t exactly Steele my heart

  May 8, 2011 in City, Idaho on Page B1 As a reporter assigned to cover the human-rights movement in Kootenai County back in the day, I dealt with racists, too. One gave me a swastika tiepin. Another crashed his … 4

• Huckleberries: Strangers reward woman’s effort to turn life around

  April 10, 2011 in City on Page B3 Kendra Martinez has kept herself out of trouble since the days of yore when she was the object of a tug-of-war between the Kootenai County prosecutor and the public defender. …

• Huckleberries: If mermaid’s hair looks familiar, ask Cheryl

  March 20, 2011 in City on Page B2 You wouldn’t think Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” would have ties to a burg on freshwater Lake Coeur d’Alene. But the inspiration for Ariel’s hair may come from the strawberry-blond locks … 1

• Try to keep that inside the beltway

  May 16, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 I’m not one to discuss butt-crack sightings usually. Nor is Marianne Love. But when you spot the Mother of All Butt Cracks (or is that the Father of All Butt …

• An insider’s view of jail crowding

  Nov. 22, 2009 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 Kendra Goodrick- Martinez, the ex-meth dealer who continues to go straight, was an interested observer when Kootenai County voters rejected that jail expansion proposal. She knows first-hand that a bigger …

• For waiter, free dessert has its price

  May 24, 2009 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 A funny thing happened to Nic Casey on the eve of his 30th birthday. Seems he and his wife, Bekah, decided to test-drive a relatively new eatery in town – …

• I-scream memory from Topper, Too

  Feb. 14, 2009 in Idaho Voices on Page I2 So the other day Patrick Jacobs was browsing through a 1989 Polks directory at St. Vinny’s and stumbled onto Memory Lane. He posted his close encounter with bygone restaurants on …

• Former CdA High jock one of Idaho’s hottest

  Oct. 23, 2008 in Voices on Page PF1 If you were wondering what happened to ex-Coeur d’Alene High football/baseball star Mark Scates, he’s a federal law enforcement officer living in Boise – and one of Cosmopolitan’s hottest Idaho …

• Not a time for joking around

  Oct. 9, 2008 in Voices on Page PF1 If you followed the popular “Scanner Traffic” feature at Huckleberries Online last week, you’d be the first one in your ’hood to know that a fiftysomething man had local pols …

• GOP warming to blogs

  Aug. 14, 2008 in Voices on Page PF1 First, Congressman Bill Sali. Now, Lt. Gov. Jim Risch. Slowly, Repub candidates are warming up to the blogosphere. Last week, Sali launched his blog with little fanfare. On Friday, Risch …

• War of words continues

  Feb. 21, 2008 in Voices on Page PF1 As chairman of the Idaho House Education Committee, state Rep. Bob Nonini always has the opportunity to get in the last word. As predicted by Huckleberries Saturday, however, the District …

• Well, I remember when …

  Jan. 31, 2008 in Voices on Page PF1 You don’t have to be a native to recall tough winters in North Idaho. Jeff Selle/Post Falls nominated the winter of 1996-97 as a doozy. Jeff was living in Cocalalla …

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