I just experienced one of those moments when your past sneaks up on you. I was perusing the AP Photo wire one last time when I saw a familiar face looking back, former Red Bluff (Calif.) Daily News colleague Bill Goodyear (pictured). He has died,…
At 3 p.m. today, a maroon 1989 Jeep Cherokee slid into a Coeur d'Alene School District bus at N. Sandpiper Way and Prairie Avenue. The driver of the Jeep was trying to turn on icy streets and slid into the right front tire area of…
On Jan. 1, The Spokesman-Review editorial board will recognize five people for extraordinary contributions to their communities this year. Readers are encouraged to let us know of Inland Northwest citizens you consider deserving in the following categories:•Citizen activist •Businessperson•Government official•Nonprofit worker•Lifetime achievementExcept for the lifetime…
Chris Peterson/Glacier Geographics, Muse You Can UseChris Peterson/Glacier Geographics explains how baby goats are made here.*Kevin Richert correctly points out that kayakers and canoeists shouldn't be barred from attending a meeting to discuss charging them for using Idaho waterways, another of Gov. Butch Otter's closed…
Noah Kroese/Special to Huckleberries Online
Wow. Check out this Washington Post story about the fight over open primary elections in Virginia, which has eerie echoes of the debate here in Idaho on the same issue. In a little different twist, however, Virginia’s Republican Party has decided to deal with the…
The Spokesman-Review announcement was the most dire, but newsrooms across Idaho are smaller than they were before. That includes the Idaho Statesman, which over the past several months has declined to fill some positions as they go vacant, including a state reporter position and a…
Item: Lake City High gets early Christmas gifts with transfer of New Hampshire brothers/Greg Lee, Spokesman-Review LC is heavily favored to capture the Inland Empire League championship. Coach Jim Thacker, who won nearly 500 games in three decades at Walla Walla, figured he'd have a…
Item: Hillary set to speak at evangelical megachurch: Candidate addressing AIDS summit at Rick Warren's Saddleback Church/WorldNetDailyQuote: The first thing is that this is not a church service, and, second, there isn't a pulpit on stage," said Warren, author of the best-seller "The Purpose-Driven Life."…
John L. Smith has seen the country during his coaching career but a little home cooking still appeals to the veteran. Smith said Wednesday by phone he is interested in returning to Washington State, where he was an assistant in 1987 and 1988, to fill…
I awoke about midnight. 12:01 a.m., actually. I followed my standard morning routine, hopping on the computer to make the usual web site checks. Drudge Report. Facebook. New York Times. Huckleberries. Drudge Report again. Drudge hadn't been updated in a while, it seemed. That reminded…
Kerri Thoreson/OnLocation North IdahoThe world's tallest Christmas tree, at 161 feet, is more than twice the size of the tree at New York's Rockefeller Center (75 feet tall). The 120-year-old Grand Fir (Abies grandis) overlooks Lake Coeur d'Alene from the waterfront home of Duane Hagadone…
Item: Governor's office sets up meeting to talk about registering drift boats, kayaks, canoes and rafts/Pete Zimowsky, Idaho StatesmanMore Info: Owners of non-motorized boats in Idaho could find themselves charged a registration fee like the one paid by motorized boat owners to help pay for…
You thought it was bad now with all the new people moving in. I'll bet this publicity just enticed the next wave to relocate here with this 'Good Morning America' appearance. Sounds like to me like whoever set this little show up sure could care…
By my count, this morning’s coverage of Coeur d’Alene on ABC's "Good Morning America" was much less than "15 minutes of fame" scattered over two full hours in fragments as fleeting as two brief bursts of fireworks overshadowed by tragic headline news and inane moderator…
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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.
