Weekend Poll: By an almost 4-to-1 margin, Hucks Nation voted that observance of Good Friday/Easter was more important than Earth Day (which fell on Good Friday this year). 154 of 253 respondents (60.87%) said Good Friday/Easter observance was more important. 43 of 253 (17%) said…
You can see the impact that megaloads from the Port of Lewiston to a refinery in Billings, Mont., are having on the trees along Highway 12 in the Idaho Rivers United photo above.
House Minority Leader John Rusche, D-Lewiston, a pediatrician, is praising GOP Gov. Butch Otter's veto of HB 298, the grandson-of-nullification bill on health care reform, saying, “Gov. Otter prevented legal mayhem - for that he is to be thanked.” He has concerns, however, about the…
Item: Opponents rally against McEuen Field project/Nick Rotunno, CdA Press More Info: Mordantly amusing, the big signpost greeted visitors at McEuen Field on Saturday afternoon, its colorful arrows pointing every which way. "Fancy Marina - $1.3M," read one arrow, aimed at Lake Coeur d'Alene. "Ritzy…
Audio of 'Goodbye Eddie Ray Hall' here So Eddie Ray Hall – Spokane’s notorious methperado – is off to federal prison for 16 years. Today we mark this judicial development with the last installment in my trilogy of Eddie Ray tunes. I give you “Goodbye…
The communities of Coeur d'Alene and Post Falls have been on the lookout for a blue van that is wanted in several reported attempted child abductions. Unfortunately, for the owners of blue vans, they're under suspicion almost everywhere they go. The owner of this blue…
Howard Martinson: Contrary to what’s been written above, Washington boaters do pay to boat on Lake CdA. How? For starters they pay to launch and use the ramp and park their tow rigs & trailers. Many purchase their boat gas, on the trailer, from local…
As I was feeding canceled checks, 1993 tax returns and 1975 newspaper clippings into the shredder, the Dumpster and the fireplace, I was filled with the kind of satisfaction that comes only with a thorough spring cleaning. I was ridding my life of decades of…
Gaby Rodriguez would worry whenever anyone asked to touch her baby bump. It wasn’t because she felt shy or embarrassed. It was because the bulge – fashioned from wire mesh and cotton quilt batting – didn’t actually contain a baby. For the past 6 1/2…
Hoping to rekindle excitement among younger voters, President Barack Obama spoke at a town hall-style meeting hosted by Facebook on Wednesday and asked for help in beating back “radical” Republican budget proposals. He sat on a stage next to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who served…
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.
