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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 … 3

• 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 …

• 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). …

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 …

• 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 …

• 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

• 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

• 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 …

• Huckleberries: Diamond Cup Regatta directors jumping ship

  February 24, 2013 in City, Idaho on Page B3 You may know that hydroplane races are set to return to Lake Coeur d’Alene on Labor Day weekend this year. But did you know that half of the directors of … 4

• Huckleberries: Stewart says task force satisfied with Regan apology

  February 17, 2013 in City, Idaho on Page B7 Trustee Brent Regan of the Coeur d’Alene School District has performed proper contrition for his insensitive anti-Obama joke at a recent legislative forum. Tony Stewart told Huckleberries that his Kootenai …

• Huckleberries: Do-not-call list popular but has political hangups

  February 10, 2013 in City, Idaho on Page B7 Seems one lobbyist with past ties to the Idaho Legislature has more clout than a million Idahoans. How else can you explain the unanimous vote by the House State Affairs … 1

• Huckleberries: Beware staking claim to mantle of nerdiness

  February 3, 2013 in City, Idaho on Page B3 Jeff Ward, a founder of the Kootenai County Reagan Republicans, views his Tea Party Lite group as an underdog. Never mind that Kootenai County is one of the most Republican … 1

• 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

• 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 …

• 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 …

• 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

• 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

• 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 …

• Huckleberries: Former Bronco goes back to Rocky Mountain ways

  December 2, 2012 in Idaho on Page B2 Jake Plummer is back in Colorado, rekindling his love for football. Last Sunday, New York Times reporter Hunter Atkins described the former quarterback’s retreat from the Denver Broncos and professional …

• Huckleberries: Wallace poetry book harks back to times past

  November 18, 2012 in City, Idaho on Page B3 A book of poetry about “Wallace, Idaho,” that recalls the bygone houses of prostitution begs reading: “Every 12-year-old charged/with selling something to benefit anything/knew like the Lord’s Prayer/the first steps … 1

• Huckleberries: Note to GOP: America will always survive

  November 11, 2012 in City, Idaho on Page B7 Nathan Empsall has a message for distraught Republicans who are facing four more years of President Barack Obama. Nathan? He’s a 2005 Coeur d’Alene Charter Academy graduate who graduated from … 5

• Huckleberries: In storm’s aftermath, it’s the little things

  November 4, 2012 in City, Idaho on Page B3 Thom George, a former Kootenai County Democratic Party chairman, moved from Seattle to New York in time for Hurricane Sandy. Luckily, the New York native and social media addict knows …

• Huckleberries: Stranded motorist gives shout-out to helpful chief

  October 28, 2012 in Idaho on Page B3 A funny thing happened to Coeur d’Alene physical therapist Gary Bartoo and son, Trey, on the way home from the new Frontier Ice Arena on Thursday night. The fuel pump …

• Huckleberries: No gas, no problem on sunny Hayden Lake day

  October 14, 2012 in City, Idaho on Page B2 Another week, another lake rescue story from North Idaho, although not as dramatic as the one in which a father and a son capsized their sailboat in high winds on …

• Huckleberries: International program debate takes ugly turn

  October 7, 2012 in City, Idaho on Page B2 Coeur d’Alene is still buzzing about that 5-0 vote by the new Coeur d’Alene School Board against the Primary Years Programme at Hayden Meadows School last Monday. Of interest were …

• Huckleberries: Reagan Republicans, PR group joined at hip

  September 30, 2012 in City, Idaho on Page B2 A public relations company tied closely to a Kootenai County Republican organization was paid $86,000 by eight candidates involved in the local 2012 GOP primary – five of whom won. … 3

• Huckleberries: Kennedy slims down by ‘Running from Recall’

  September 23, 2012 in City, Idaho on Page B1 Coeur d’Alene City Councilman Mike Kennedy didn’t shrink from appearing at the Idaho Supreme Court hearing for Jim Brannon’s challenge of his three-vote 2009 loss to Kennedy last week. But …

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