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• Huckleberries: Duke rally draws few, fries return

  September 12, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 ABC/ESPN sportscaster Brent Musburger, who was raised near Billings, had high words of praise for the Coeur d’Alene area during No. 5 Boise State’s ha-huge televised victory over No. 6 …

• Huckleberries: Docs pass with flying colors

  September 5, 2010 in News on Page I1 There wasn’t a doctor in the house, but there were two freshly minted ones on that flight from Seattle to New York when a female passenger passed out and quit …

• County fair hosting baking contests

  August 11, 2010 in Food on Page C1 It’s not too late for Pend Oreille County bakers to get in on some blue-ribbon action. Head to the fairgrounds next Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. to enter …

• Piazza fans should’ve caught that

  May 30, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 Not only has Rich Piazza hit 427 less home runs, knocked in 1,335 less RBIs, and played in 1,912 less games than former star catcher Mike Piazza, but he’s never …

• Kennedy ponders lawsuit

  May 23, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 I can’t figure out why state law allows the loser of a close election to directly sue the winner. Then, has any losing candidate ever followed the steps taken by …

• 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 …

• That sign clearly not from God

  May 2, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 So there I was minding my own business on a return trip from church at 1:15 Sunday afternoon when I saw a friendly man with short-cropped hair and a sign …

• Ex-S-R reporter a tough editor

  April 25, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 Before J. Todd Foster was editor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Bristol (Va.) Herald Courier, he was a reporter in the Coeur d’Alene newsroom of The Spokesman-Review. A Tennessean, he was …

• Political punches fly on the blog

  April 18, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 Councilman Mike Kennedy won’t take up Jim Brannon on his challenge to stage a do-over election for Kennedy’s council seat on May 25. If you don’t know what I’m talking …

• ‘Makeover’ ends with egg facial

  April 11, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 That “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” in 2006 involving a Sandpoint family has been spotlighted by the Wall Street Journal as one of the show’s all-time flops. Remember? The town celebrated …

• Priggee carries quite a ’toon

  April 4, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 If you don’t know who Milt Priggee is, you probably haven’t lived in the Inland Northwest for long. For years, Milt was the free-spirit cartoonist for The Spokesman-Review who was …

• Stereotype lecture hits home

  March 28, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 At A Family Runs Through It, local blogger Phil Corless has had it up to here with negative stereotypes aimed at home schoolers. Phil is a home schooler. Also, Phil …

• Election challenge gets zanier

  March 14, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 You want to know how far over the top the biggest cheerleaders for unsuccessful City Council candidate Jim Brannon are? Some sincerely believe that there’s a conspiracy to steal votes …

• NY Times skewers tea partiers

  March 7, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 Charlie Brown never seemed to learn that Lucy always yanked the football before he tried to kick it. And Idaho conservatives never learn that they aren’t going to catch a …

• Comments on Benewah sheriff brought Payne to surface

  February 28, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 Prosecutor Doug Payne didn’t appreciate the criticism leveled at Sheriff Bob Kirts and Benewah County by outsiders including me recently. In a Handle Extra comment, I said the issue of …

• Sandpoint retiree’s teatime makes the big Times

  February 21, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 Now that she has a lead role in a North Idaho Tea Party movement, Pam Stout, 66, is lucky that she has jettisoned her shyness. Otherwise, the Sandpoint woman would … 1

• McEuen plan gets a mishearing

  February 14, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 You may have heard that Steve Adams claims that Finance Director Troy Tymeson told him about plans to build a two-story parking garage on McEuen Field. Adams, an unsuccessful council …

• Tracking the vote tracker

  February 7, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 You really don’t have to tell a private eye how you voted, no matter how persuasive he may sound on the phone or in person at your doorstep. As you …

• Suit hinges on absentee vote, eh?

  January 31, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 Monica Paquin, a former resident of Coeur d’Alene now living in the Montreal area, finds herself the focus of an effort to overthrow the 2009 Lake City elections. And all …

• Jeans joke lives on for clerk, wife

  January 24, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 You may already know that Kootenai County Clerk Dan English has lost the equivalent of a runway model worth of weight. But did you know that his successful stomach bypass …

• Thanks for memories, CdA police

  January 17, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 Coeur d’Alene police finally caught up with that desperado who has bedeviled lakeshore owners trying to construct buildings or docks in the wrong places for years. Attorney Scott Reed, 81, …

• Readers question online ire

  January 10, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 It didn’t take Dan Gookin long to return to bashing CPD Blue spokeswoman Sgt. Christie Wood. Ornery Gookin reinvented himself as Mr. Nice Guy last fall in a council bid …

• Inkstained fingers get snippy slap

  December 27, 2009 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 So there I was minding my own business when – shazam! – I found myself in the middle of Jim Brannon’s sour-grapes lawsuit to overthrow the 2009 Coeur d’Alene city …

• 2009 spotlight

  December 27, 2009 in Outdoors on Page C13 Kayaker descends Palouse Falls Tyler Bradt, 22, of Stevensville, Mont., set a world record by riding his kayak over Palouse Falls on April 21. He quickly disappeared in the plummeting, …

• Autograph seekers find rogue love

  December 20, 2009 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 While other media tried in vain to interview Sarah Palin on her recent book tour, Huckleberries Online simply embedded a Berry Picker with the ex-VP wannabe when she visited North …

• Pot calling kettle blue may work

  December 13, 2009 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 Kevin Richert, opinion editor of the Idaho Statesman, and conservative blogger Adam Graham/Give Me Liberty responded to the attack by Sen. Mike Jorgenson, R-Hayden Lake, on Rep. Raul Labrador’s candidacy …

• Vandals win where it counts

  November 29, 2009 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 For all long-suffering UIdaho Vandal fans, Argonaut News Editor Marcus Kellis offers a unique perspective re: the lopsided results of recent football games w/Boise State. First, Marcus has solid southern …

• An insider’s view of jail crowding

  November 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 …

• Elections and full moons

  November 8, 2009 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 I was visiting my mother-in-law for lunch in the Coeur d’Alene Place development last Sunday when the door bell rang. I heard a familiar voice when my mother-in-law answered the …

• Human-rights conference gets hand from Hattiesburg

  November 1, 2009 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 That cross-the-border press conference staged to oppose local racists circulating hate literature was felt all the way down in Mississippi. Seems Jackie Bland and her family from Hattiesburg, Miss., visited …

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