Complete Jim Meehan story here, Jim's Idaho Vandals blog hereAfter a 10-day search, the University of Idaho has found its next head football coach – eight miles away. Washington State defensive coordinator Robb Akey (pictured above) has accepted an offer to become Idaho’s coach, multiple…
Gotta applaud the news this afternoon from a Berry Picker that Hagadone is extending dental coverage to newsroom employees, at least. I'll leave it at that, w/o any snide remarks. Good job, Duane.
Issue: Time magazine created a flap by naming Internet users as its person of the year. Now, Pat Buchanan's claiming that Iran cuh-razy Iranian leader Ahmadinejad should have made the cover.Question: If Time mag produced a North Idaho edition, who would be its local Person…
Rudolph the six-year-old consumerHad a lot of toys and clothesBut during this Christmas seasonHe wanted one of those new ElmosAll of the other childrenWanted globs of candy and gamesOf course poor little RudolphWanted much of the sameThen one foggy Christmas EveHis parents came to sayRudolph…
Full post hereIn 1972, when I strolled into a party or a bar filled with friends, someone would mark my arrival by calling out my father's name: "Hey,Pert!" If George White was present, he called me "Cotton". Some called me "Irish". I'd sit down with…
Oh the traffic outside is frightful,but the sales are so delightful,and since we’ve got three days to go,spend the dough, spend the dough, spend the doughThe prices are quickly dropping,and my credit card is poppingmy checking account is low,spend the dough, spend the dough, spend…
Drake Perkins, right, dislikes his visit with Santa Claus Monday at Northland Mall in Sterling, Ill. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Daily Gazette, Paul Colletti)
Huckleberrie hears ... that this wasn't such a shoo-in pick as expected -- that long-time planner Mel Palmer was the favorite in the field of 15 or 16. My sources question whether Dick Harris, the superb former superintendent of schools, has the gumption to run…
Full column hereI need a shower. A really hot shower. With lots and lots of soap. And maybe an amnesia drug. Anything to wipe away the fecal memories of my day with Kevin Coe. Oh, it sounded like such a great idea. I got up…
Raymond Pert: When a boy, I kept being told by kids older than I that there was no Santa. I'd wake up on Christmas morning and under the tree I'd find a baseball mitt or a farm set or a new space heater and this…
Gov. Jim Risch and Laura Hubbard, state director of the Nature Conservancy, (bottom) admire the cascading waterfalls (top) at the newly named Thousand Springs State Park Complex today from the loft of the historic Minnie Miller Dairy Barn near Hagerman, Idaho. More than 300 acres…
Dunno who this guy is, other than he isn't Thom George. He was at the Kootenai County Courthouse today, protesting that Idaho Republicans still haven't ponied up the $3,500 to pay for veep Dick Cheney's electioneering in Kootenai County prior to November's election. Kerri Thoreson/fyiNorthIdaho.com…
Joseph Barbera poses with famed Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters, from left, Scooby Doo, Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble, after he received a lifetime achievement award from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles Saturday, Sept. 21, 1996. Joe Barbera, half of the Hanna-Barbera…
... SPD Blue say he bought laced cookies/Thomas Clouse, Spokesman-ReviewDFO: Gotta give Spokane police props for handling, reporting the matter promptly, right?
Full post hereMurders and robberies continued to rise across the country during the first six months of 2006, on pace for an increase in violent crime for a second straight year, preliminary FBI data released Monday show. The numbers reflect what police across the country…
For complete editorial, click hereThe search for Washington State University’s new president couldn’t have been more secretive if the CIA had conducted it. Elson S. Floyd was named successor to retiring WSU President V. Lane Rawlins on Wednesday, ending a hiring process that omitted any…
President Bush, left, watches as Defense Secretary Robert Gates is sworn in by Vice President Dick Cheney, not shown, during a ceremony at the Pentagon this morning here. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
... two other still missing ... may have fallen here.DFO: I don't understand the motivation that prompts people to climb mountains, particularly in the dead of winter in the Pacific Northwest. But I do understand that the three lost mountaineers have put people at risk…
Most of you know about the $80,000 custom bike that was given to Steve Groene Friday in memory of the sons he lost at the hands of killer Joseph Duncan. But a quiet act took place at the faux press conference that was also meaningful.…
For rest of column, click hereCuppa Joe was once a Spokane County sheriff's detective. Then came that career-ending day last June when he exposed himself to a barista babe at the On Alert espresso stand in Airway Heights. I have no knowledge as to whether…
For rest of column, click hereHere's one way in which I'm glad small newspapers like this one are not aping our bigger siblings in metropolitan areas: We're not throwing bodies overboard in order to satisfy profit demands of investor owners. I just finished reading two…
Bob: OK, here's my prediction. Now, I'm sure if I'm wrong all the gloating Zaganatics will drag it out and wave it at me because nobody ever drags out my predictions when they are chillingingly and stunningly correct (see: Nov 06 elections, see The End…
Funkydale: QueenB still has to broadcast in the public interest and yes, serve the public with a required amount of public affairs programming per week-- the morning show doing most of that. Travis Malone is a standup guy, he loves radio and loves the people…
D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.