Earlier this week, gays were up in arms about that Snickers commercial during the Super Bowl in which two mechanics accidentally kissed. The ad was benched as homophobic. Now, suicide preventionists are angry. In a framegrab photo provided by General Motors, a GM robot is…
The House has just voted 62-7 to pass HB 81, Rep. Cliff Bayer’s bill to raise the grocery tax credit from $20 to $50 for everyone, and from $35 to $70 for seniors. The vote came after nearly an hour of debate, including sharp warnings…
Frost covers the winter coat of a horse standing in a pasture near Great Falls, Mont., Wednesday/Robin Loznak, AP Photo/Great Falls Tribune.Red State Rebels: Emmett Republican Steve Thayne replaces Bill Sali as most extreme Idaho legislator here?1. Reporters from several British media outlets spent the…
Pepper's better half is helping to organize the effort to have a house built for Shasta Groene. See item below/Jesse Tinsley, Spokesman-Review.*Cd'A Police chief search expanded: Carpenter intends to retire this year, but hasn't set a date/Marc Stewart, Coeur d'Alene Press -- I've known four…
Issue: S-R seeks Baughman investigation records/Thomas Clouse, Spokesman-Review More Info: According to the suit, Kootenai County Attorney Erika Grubbs refused to turn over a report of the investigation by Kandy Weaver, who was hired by the county's insurer. Grubbs claimed that Weaver only verbally relayed…
BrianT: What is it with you up north and your goofy commissioners? You used to send that arrogant jerk from Kootenai County (I forget his name, but he was representing you last year) and now the Kootenai County Chairman follows in his shoes in a…
I've barely come to grips with the reality of "Congressman Bill Sali" – and now Bruce Reed wants me to consider the prospect of "President Bill Sali." Tongue firmly cheeked, Reed contends in his Slate column Wednesday that the R's best hope for revival is…
Local athletes are among those who have signed letters of intent to play sports at Division I schools next year. Greg Lee/Idaho Preps covered the signings of Coeur d'Alene players on his blog here. Meanwhile, the SR online is all over the other area signings…
Illustration: Thom George
... The gendarmes are responding to a report from a Hayden woman (in the Wyoming Avenue area) that she's locked out of her apartment ... while her kids -- 16 months and 3 years -- are locked in.Hat Tip: Taryn Brodwater
My stomach's growlin' and then I opened JeanC's Web site and saw this mouth-watering photo. Writes JeanC: "The pork came out wonderfully and the BBQ sandwiches I made last night were yummy. We picked up some real cheeses on the way home, the sliced American…
Washington State Patrol troopers discuss an accident involving a Walla Walla County sheriff's deputy Tuesday in Burbank, Wash. A Walla Walla County sheriff's deputy apparently responding to a report of a 911 hangup call was seriously injured Tuesday afternoon in a collision with a commercial…
The judge overseeing the court martial of an Army lieutenant who refused to deploy to Iraq has declared a mistrial -- Seattle Times.
*Scanner (at 4:36 p.m.): The gendarmes are looking for a coupla punks in a pickup who tossed a pop can at a bicyclist riding northbound of 15th. The duo turned east on Hanley....*Parker Howell, the SR intern in our Boise office, is working on a…
Today, voters in Idaho announced the official launch of the Idaho DraftObama.org chapter, sending the strong message that a grassroots army of Idahoans exists to encourage and help Illinois Senator Barack Obama run for and become the next President of the United States. Idaho is…
For the rest of the story, click hereThe latest plan tries to address earlier criticisms. Officials removed some 27,000 acres in 242 different parcels of National Forest land from the auction block in states like Arizona and Montana after determining they had qualities that had…
For rest of story, click here, for survey, click hereHow do the numbers stack in the Northwest? In Washington, which the poll again suggests is the most Democratic of the three, the Democrats accounted for 54%, Republican 36% and independents 10%. If that’s an accurate…
Issue: Study: Few Idaho jobs pay living wage: Experts say low wages force people to live ‘on the edge,' where they're more vulnerable to economic downturns/Joe Estrella, Idaho StatesmanMore Info: Ironically, the report was released shortly after legislation that would have increased Idaho's minimum wage…
DFO: I'm delighted that Noah Kroese (Cruise-ah), the former UIdaho Argonaut cartoonist from Moscow, is beginning to make his way on the pages of the SR editorial page. His cartoon about the latest Kootenai County Prosecutor's Office e-mail scandal was published today. Please join me…
John Duh (re: death of baseball legend Lew Burdette): First it was Mickey Mantle, now it seems like those who were players and the idols of my youth are passing on an almost daily basis. You start to realize how quickly time goes by and…
Before his current reign as potato-salad maker extraordinaire at the Captain's Wheel/Bayview, Herb Huseland drove a cab. My Huckleberries Online crowd calls him Sweet Herb. In January, Herb regaled us with tales about his days as a Coeur d'Alene cabbie. In one "Cab Tale," he…
Stebbijo brought up a good point last night re: the occasional porn spam that slithers through SR filters and lands in the comments section occasionally. We've done everything possible this side of registration to stop this stuff. I don't want to go to registration because…
Singer Frankie Laine is seen in this Aug. 16, 1956 file photo. Laine, the big-voiced singer whose string of hits made him one of the most popular entertainers of the 1950s, died Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2007. He was 93.
Dunno what JBelle/The 'Kan EWA was shooting here. Pine cones? But it's pretty -- and, therefore, heads the parade of today's Best of the Friends Blogs.*In "Existentialist Crisis," Toad/Synaptic Disunion begins: "He wakes at 5am, and washes his face and hands in a ritualistic manner.…
This file photo originally supplied by Warner Bros., shows Tyra Banks, addressing the unflattering bathing suit photos that were recently plastered in every tabloid and gossip websites, as she talks about the media's obsession with weight and weighs in on the skinny model controversy during…
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.
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