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• 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 …

• Huckleberries: Now that’s what I call an appetite for news

  September 16, 2012 in City, Idaho on Page B2 North Idahoans know that huckleberries are delicious – the state fruit, if not a certain column by that name. The latter has helped put bread on my table since January …

• Huckleberries: Shedding party label a liberating experience

  September 9, 2012 in City, Idaho on Page B2 Christie Wood is fed up with the hard-liners who are driving state and local Republicans further and further to the right. Unlike other disillusioned Republicans, however, the North Idaho College … 6

• Sullivan Lake good base for active campers

  August 26, 2012 in Outdoors on Page C10 Location, location, location. That’s the key to a perfect Labor Day weekend camping destination. Virtually any campground will do if you’re going to sit around a campfire all day and … 3

• Huckleberries: Former teacher schooled at border

  August 19, 2012 in City, Idaho on Page B1 When we last visited Meghan Ridley, she had moved to Seattle to write for Dope Magazine, a medical marijuana journal. Meghan? She’s the ex-Lakeland School District teacher of the year … 2

• New Yorker uses Idaho as model for pragmatism

  August 12, 2012 in City, Idaho on Page B3 It isn’t often that a New York Times opinion columnist holds Idaho up as a model of how to do things. But bicycle enthusiast Randy Cohen did that recently. Cohen, … 1

• Officials try to halt huckleberry cutting

  August 5, 2012 in City, Idaho, Outdoors on Page B10 LEWISTON – Pickers are illegally cutting truckloads of huckleberry brush in North Idaho forests and hauling it away, law enforcement officers said. Officials with Nez Perce-Clearwater national forests have received … 3

• Huckleberries: CdA, nearing 125th, incorporated for 36 reasons

  August 5, 2012 in Idaho on Page B2 Coeur d’Alene water superintendent Jim Markley gave Huckleberries a heads-up that the City by the Lake is turning 125 this month – on Aug. 22 or Aug. 29, depending on …

• Huckleberries: Beware, or embrace, the donut burgers truck

  July 29, 2012 in Idaho on Page B3 Restaurant reviewer Patrick Jacobs claims he ate a donut burger after hours from an unnamed food truck in downtown Coeur d’Alene on Saturday, July 21. You read that right – … 1

• Huckleberries: Family ties run deep for patient sheriff’s deputy

  July 22, 2012 in City, Idaho on Page B1 In the “Chip Off the Old Block” department, a Bayview man owes his life to a Kootenai County sheriff’s deputy who didn’t shoot first and ask questions later. Deputy Brad …

• Huckleberries: Hart’s patriot act doesn’t pass muster

  July 8, 2012 in Idaho on Page B2 State Rep. Phil Hart, R-Athol, who was KO’d in the GOP primary during his ongoing battle with the IRS and Idaho Tax Commission over $600,000 in unpaid income taxes, remains …

• Huckleberries: Black bear cub, local R’s share camera shyness

  July 1, 2012 in City, Idaho on Page B2 Sen. Shawn Keough, R-Sandpoint, is accustomed to seeing moose, turkey, deer and bears while working at her “day job”: executive director for the Associated Logging Contractors. The association’s office is …

• Huckleberries: Councilman changes tone after sending testy email

  June 24, 2012 in City on Page B2 Coeur d’Alene City Councilman Dan Gookin recovered well from a recent political faux pas. Gookin, an outspoken critic of proposed changes to McEuen Field, offered verbal balm to the town … 1

• Huckleberries: Councilman mighty testy over early news report

  June 17, 2012 in City, Idaho on Page B2 Coeur d’Alene City Councilman Dan Gookin was hot after news leaked last week that a compromise was in the works for McEuen Field plans for boat trailer parking. Why? He … 7

• Huckleberries: The family that opposes the recall together …

  June 10, 2012 in City, Idaho on Page B2 Mary Souza, an organizer of the Coeur d’Alene recall effort and bitter foe of Mayor Sandi Bloem and Councilman Mike Kennedy, claims she’s enjoying good vi-vi-vibrations from the community. She …

• Huckleberries: Departing deity, other elephants in room

  June 3, 2012 in City, Idaho on Page B2 ‘Sheriff” Richard Mack, the darling of GOP Tea Party members in Kootenai and Spokane counties, is proof that fringe candidates are without honor in their own country – in his … 6

• Huckleberries: Kootenai Republicans’ civil war not letting up

  May 20, 2012 in City, Idaho on Page B2 The battle between the conservative Reagan Republicans and the uberconservative United Conservatives of North Idaho for control of the Kootenai County Republican Party won’t end soon. Huckleberries hears that the … 1

• Huckleberries: Gookin’s stand on art funding ‘undedicated’ to facts

  May 6, 2012 in Idaho on Page B2 Coeur d’Alene has wonderful pieces of public art, from David Govedare’s “Guardians of the Lake” (aka “The Feathers”) on Northwest Boulevard to kid favorites Mudgy & Millie in five downtown … 2

• Huckleberries: Ex-NFL’er finds football a stronger tie than politics

  April 29, 2012 in Idaho on Page B7 It isn’t every day that a Dem congressional candidate in blood-red Idaho asks for support from a man who spoke at the 2008 GOP national convention on behalf of presidential …

• Huckleberries: Adams touchy about public contradiction

  April 22, 2012 in City, Idaho on Page B2 Steve Adams, a new Coeur d’Alene councilman who refuses to support any issue that involves federal dollars, doesn’t like correction. After being corrected twice by City Attorney Mike Gridley for …

• ‘Nonsense’ aptly sums up recall push

  April 15, 2012 in City on Page B2 Attorney Norm Gissel has two words to describe the attempted recall against Coeur d’Alene Mayor Sandi Bloem and three City Council members: “What nonsense.” Many of you know Norm as … 2

• Huckleberries: Recall effort fueled by new lie, old rivals

  April 8, 2012 in City on Page B2 The recall election launched last week against progressive Coeur d’Alene Mayor Sandi Bloem and three City Council members is based on a fib and old grudges. A recall backer circulated … 4

• Huckleberries: Is Hagadone having his hydroplane dream again?

  March 25, 2012 in City, Idaho on Page B1 Huckleberries hears that the Hagadone Corp. and allies are working behind the scenes to bring a small hydroplane regatta to the north shore of Lake Coeur d’Alene late this summer. … 5

• Huckleberries: Caucuser’s disillusionment highlights party divisions

  March 18, 2012 in Idaho on Page B1 National Libertarian blogger Lew Rockwell tells of the plight of an unnamed supporter of Ron Paul who attended the maligned Kootenai County Republican presidential caucus – the one at the … 1

• Huckleberries: Signature-gathering can be an arresting task

  March 11, 2012 in City, Idaho on Page B2 Kootenai County’s deputies regularly respond to the Hayden Wal-Mart and nearby Prairie Shopping Center businesses to roust transients and panhandlers. But not so much to the Hayden Library, farther north … 2

• Huckleberries: Kootenai County’s GOP barely sidestepped embarrassment

  March 4, 2012 in City, Idaho on Page B2 Jeff Ward saved the Kootenai County Republicans from themselves when he successfully opposed their plan for Richard Mack to speak at their Lincoln Day Dinner on March 24. Ward is … 1

• Huckleberries: Party meetings good training for young Paul fan

  February 26, 2012 in City on Page B2 You know your 3-year-old daughter is as cute as you think she is when she’s photographed by two members of different media at the recent Ron Paul confab. Nicole Hensley …

• Huckleberries: Claims about Santorum’s game may fall short

  February 19, 2012 in City, Idaho on Page B2 Jimmy McAndrew, who caddied at the Coeur d’Alene Resort golf course before becoming a Coeur d’Alene banker, is skeptical about Rick Santorum’s golf prowess. According to eyewitnesses Tuesday, the Republican …

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