Family Phil/A Family Runs Through It"Thank you, summer, for returning to us, if only for a couple of days, so I could once again float on my back in the refreshing waters of Lake Coeur d'Alene while watching my kids splash and play and explore"/Family…
Toadman: I sincerely believe we are headed for a cultural civil war in this country. The more homogeneous our communities become (overly blue, or overly red), the more extreme both views become. It's a feedback loop. We seek others who reinforce our own views...and to…
Barry Kough/Lewiston TribuneLewiston Idaho Fire Dept. Capt. Dave Chenault looks for hot spots while standing knee-deep in foam used to extinguish an apartment fire in Lewiston Thursday.*Sandpoint Bypass tag tops $144M/Bonner County Bee*Long-time Canadian fugitive caught in Tonasket/SR*Wanted pharmacy robber possible repeat suspect/SR*Idaho student stabbed…
3:50 p.m. R/P reports driver in front of him on Highway 95 near Parker Toyota is smoking drugs and just tossed out a soda can.1:14 p.m. Individual is unconscious and unresponsive in the 300 block of West Davidson.12:48 p.m. Bull loose at Ramsey & Marigold.12:39…
Courtesy: Mo Janeseck and daughter, Jessicare: 1500-mile trek by two jobless Blanchard cowboysAs "The Boys" rode next to the expensive golf course by the casino an older Native American man was playing golf. He stopped playing golf and talked to Gary (Ferguson, in blue shirt)…
Granati/OrangeFrog76Granati has some swell new photos at OrangeFrog76. This one, which he titles "nothing stops a Stihl," is a reminder that I need to order a coupla cords of wood. Anyone out there selling wood?HBO Numbers (for Wednesday, Sept. 17): 9408 page-views/5381 unique views*Big or…
Item: Washington may wipe out driveway car washing/Holley Gilbert, OregonianMore Info: In a pollution-fighting effort already in place in some Puget Sound communities, the state wants most Clark County residents to drop the bucket and shelve the detergent. Why? Because the runoff contains soap, chemicals…
On a call-in radio show in Minneapolis in midsummer, I talked about how people had sorted themselves into politically like-minded communities. Within an hour, three people came up with the same clue that told them they were living in a neighborhood where they didn't belong…
I sent another $20 to the RNC after seeing Pat Oliphant’s (political cartoon). I think the left’s declaration of a culture war on Sarah Plain really threatens to backfire. To suggest that Palin may not have the experience to take over as President is one…
Originally posted at 8:52 p.m. WednesdayDenny Davis was elected Wednesday afternoon to replace Charlie Nipp as chairman of the Lake City Development Corp. Jim Elder was re-elected vice chairman. You can read the LCDC news release about Nipp's departure below.
Seven weeks with Kevin Coe? And they call the death penalty cruel and unusual. I couldn’t believe it when I heard that 12 innocent jurors could sacrifice possibly seven weeks of their lives to serve in Coe’s civil commitment trial. At stake is whether Coe…
Amy Sancetta/APIn this three picture combo, played out on the front walk of an Amish family in Middlefield, Ohio, Wednesday, a black cat approaches a resting dog, and then makes herself quite comfortable with her new-found friend. Family members, who preferred not to share their…
Originally posted 7:32 p.m. WednesdayTUBOB: DFO, I'm seriously NOT going to write your blog for you but how did you miss the story about Sarah Palin's yahoo email account being hacked? and why haven't you started a contest to get the best fake Sarah Palin…
In Sandpoint, you can start a fight by mentioning two topics: Sandpoint Bypass, or Sarah Palin. Sandpointers, of course, have been scrapping about the bypass since before the Repub VP wannabe was born in 1964 in the Pend Oreille Lake-side town. Blogger Marianne Love likens…
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.
