I'm breaking early today, so I can help Betsy Russell downstairs with the open meetings/open records confab, starring Idaho AG Lawrence Wasden. It's going to be tricky. We have 78 people RSVP'd for 80 spots in the downstairs conference room. I may have to double…
FF Robin Loznak from Roseburg, Ore., area began this week by breaking a mirror on Monday. Of which, he said: "Crap! Seven years of bad luck. I hate Mondays." Then, he took this photo. Which is terrific -- and HucksOnline's good luck to have it.…
On her Facebook wall, Cindy writes: "Do you think newspaper reading is hereditary? I just caught my 19-year-old reading the paper while he ate lunch. I grew up in a newspaper-reading family. My mom read the paper every morning while she had her coffee and…
4:39 p.m. Post Falls caller who has been in jail wants police help in getting personal belongings. 4:34 p.m. Dalton Gardens caller reports neighbor she's suing is harassing her. 4:10 p.m. Suspicious U-Haul w/wires coming out back & up telephone pole @ Mullan & Greensferry/PF…
"He was about 500lbs," said taxidermist Sean West of Hayden as he talked about the black bear mount that he donated to be part of a traveling bear education exhibit, a cooperative project of U.S. Fish and Wildlife, the Inter-agency Grizzly Bear Committee and the…
Chuck Reitz, Shoshone County Republicans Chair, told the crowd that conservatives should not compromise with moderates or Democrats when it comes to policy. Policy is principal, he said, and you don't negotiate with what you believe is wrong. While Conservative radio talk show personality Rush…
Steve Adams, a Coeur d'Alene council member elected and North Idaho Patriots member, will be promoting Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul at a Patriots meeting at The Donut House, 8761 Government Way, Hayden, at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. An ad in today's Coeur d'Alene Press says:…
Washington State athletic director Bill Moos, right, and new head football coach Mike Leach hold up a jersey during a news conference today in Pullman, Wash. Looking on at left rear is Leach's wife Sharon Leach. (AP Photo/The Spokesman-Review, Christopher Anderson)
On Oct. 9, 2010, Melanie Vander Feer, county GOP precinct committee woman from Athol (and facilitator for the United Conservatives of North Idaho event Monday night) wrote a letter to Coeur d'Alene Press editor that read in part: "I am a broken-hearted grandmother who is…
Republican Bob Foster, the former director of Hagadone Hospitality security and current code enforcement officer with the Coeur d'Alene police, has announced his candidacy for sheriff. Foster, of Post Falls, is a 37-year veteran of Law Enforcement having served 17 years as a chief of…
Jeff Ward, president of the Kootenai County Reagan Republicans, sent a letter to facilitators Ron Mendive & Melanie Vandefeer for the new United Conservatives of North Idaho after attending the organizational meeting last night. It reads in part: "Many of those who attended last night…
Ernesto A. Bustamante was a successful young psychology professor, known simply as "E" to a close following of graduate students at the University of Idaho who marveled at his intellect and valued his advice about their careers as well as their personal lives. Kathryn Benoit…
State Rep. Vito Barbieri, R-Dalton Gardens, points out something to the standing-room-only crowd of United Conservatives of North Idaho at the organization's first meeting -- if you don't count its previous incarnation as Rally Right -- last night in Rathdrum. Barbieri plans to push his…
I’ve only been on Twitter for 7 months, not nearly long enough to have assimilated the unwritten rules and conventions, so who knows how many I’ve trampled and broken out of ignorance. But in those 7 months of searching for like-minded tweeps to follow (see,…
Before a packed ballroom in the Compton Union Building Tuesday afternoon, Mike Leach was welcomed aboard as the new head coach of the WSU football program.Leach flew into Pullman early Tuesday and was introduced to the crowd by Provost Warwick Bayly and Athletic Director Bill…
StateImpact notes that Idaho Rep. Dennis Lake, R-Blackfoot, plans to propose legislation to raise the state tax on cigarettes from $1.25 per pack from 57 cents to $1.82. Similar legislation was considered last year. The key paragraph in the story is this: "Interest groups on…
Mandatory ignition interlocks on vehicles for first-time DUI offenders would prevent multiple drunken driving offenses, a Boise Mothers Against Drunk Driving official said Monday. And they would have prevented Wendy Myrick of Nampa from what Meridian police said was her 5th DUI arrest in 10…
A blue sky surrounds a roofing crew from Palmer Roofing as they cling to the steep pitch of the Trinity Lutheran Church in Lewiston Monday. (AP Photo/Lewiston Tribune, Kyle Mills) Cartoon: Romney: Is there a there there/David Horsey, Seattle PI Idaho Falls soldier dies of…
11:59 a.m. Small boy left in red Dodge pickup @ Govt Way video store, near Albertsons/Hayden. 11:23 a.m. A disabled vehicle is blocking busy i/s of H95 & Ironwood. 11:20 a.m. Man at Tesoro reports a transient stole his bike and sold it to an…
Monday Poll: Overwhelmingly, Hucks Nation disapproves of politicians who cheat on his/her spouses. 130 of 166 respondents (78.31%) say they care whether a politician cheats. Only 30 of 166 respondents (18.07%) say they don't care. 6 were undecided. Today's Poll: What do you think of…
"If I wanted a reasonable Republican, I'd vote for a Democrat" -- state Rep. Vito Barbieri, R-Dalton Gardens, quoting a friend's quip at first meeting of United Conservatives of North Idaho.
Gracious! Mary Souza is still selling the snake oil, for all gullible OpenCDA.com readers (both of them), that Councilman Mike Kennedy didn't beat Jim Brannon in the 2009 Coeur d'Alene City Council race. This, despite a court decision that he did. Mary suggests that County…
In this courtroom sketch, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, foreground, and his wife Patti, left, listen as Blagojevich's defense attorney Carolyn Gurland addresses U.S. District Judge James Zagel during his sentencing hearing at federal court in Chicago today. Blagojevich was convicted on 18 corruption counts…
Duane Rasmussen: Yes I was there. It was a very up beat type of program. I saw people from Rally Right, Reagan Republicans, Panhandle Pachyderms, North Idaho Pachyderms, Women Republicans, the Tea Party organizations and most if not all the Republican Central Committees in the…
InlanderLeah tweets re: a pending move from downtown Spokane: "One of 4 million things I will not miss about living downtown: the guy screaming bloody murder last night outside my window." Question: Have you ever lived downtown in a fair-sized town? Did you enjoy the…
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.
