Dan of the County: I heard one of those radio ads on the way home from work (and often see them in print) where they are trying to sell you a speed reading program. They usually say something like, "wouldn't you like to read x-times…
I've been enjoying another interesting week at Huckleberries Central. The numbers remain solid. The material is good. The clock is ticking down toward the weekend. I hope you've been enjoying the ride as much as I have this month. However, there's always room for another…
... Huckleberries hears that Spencer visited the Press today to complain to Editor Mike Patrick that the city is picking on him re: the Architects West incident. A Berry Picker told me that Spencer's trying to persuade Patrick to write a story about the fact…
AP Photo/Channi AnandYoung boys ride buffaloes in the River Tawi in Jammu, India, Friday, April 20, 2007. With the onset of summer, several places in northern India have peaked above 40 degrees Celsius. You write the cutline.Top Cutlines1. Some people found Global Warming provided some…
... CdA office editorial assistant Sherry Atkins passes along a poster for the 3rd Annual Hooters on Scooters Dusty Cleavage Ladies Ride Poker Run. Seems the Panhandle Trail Riders Association is putting on the event Sunday, April 29, beginning at 7-Mile ORV Park, wherever that…
I thought I'd heard everything. But did you know this is national 4-20 Day. 4-20? Indeed, it's the high holy day of -- pot smokers. Seems potheads are suppose to light up at 4:20 in the afternoon to celebrate their vice. That means the potheads…
My son and I cover so many topics of learning in any given week of homeschooling, it's hard to know just what sticks in his brain and what doesn't. Today we were driving into Spokane when my son said, "The people who built this city…
AP Photo/Susan WalshPregnant Congresswoman Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., 37, in her Capitol Hill, Office this week. While campaigning last summer for a second term, McMorris Rodgers learned that she was in the first term of pregnancy. She chose not to reveal the pregnancy until…
... that City Hall is checking to see if antagonist Larry Spencer misrepresented himself when he asked Architects West recently to see plans for the Kroc Center. Reportedly, Spencer appeared at Architects West and said something to the extent: "The Mayor asked me to come…
Item: Psychiatrists: Disturbing screenplays just 1 sign university shooter might turn violent/Associated PressCho is not the first killer to have his writing scrutinized in the aftermath of his crime. "Vengeance is coming," Kimveer Gill wrote in a blog entry before shooting six people to death…
Item: Battling the monster on the hill: Publishing tycoon Duane Hagadone's Palm Desert neighbors consider his dream castle a $30-million offense against nature (complete with photo gallery)/Valerie Reitman, L.A. Times.Hagadone's place is being built in the hill above the home in the foreground. The times…
-You had no idea that the "Dike Road" was really named "Rosenberry Drive."-You remember Seltice as "the Highway".-You went to YJ's for "smokies", to see the elk in the pen, and have a free sausages as a kid.-You ate at Little Big Man Pizza (now…
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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.
