A 47-year-old woman who'd been arrested by Coeur d'Alene police Tuesday for driving with a suspended license is in intensive care tonight after being injured in a T-bone accident at Boekel & Atlas early this afternoon. According to a sheriff's press release, Kathryn D. Adkins…
Huckleberries Online has reached another milestone today -- it's 8th blogiversary. Dunno how many of you have been here for the long haul. But I've certainly seen changes to the posts, blog ware, and, of course, commenter & North Idaho blog mix featured here. I…
Arnold Schwarzenegger goes over every detail as he gets the first in-person-look at the larger than life clay sculpture artist Ralph Crawford is sculpting for him today in Lewiston. Once complete the statue will be bronzed and sent to Austria to be displayed in Schwarzenegger's…
Some think black hair is exotic in women. And women seem drawn to men with black hair as well. Myself, I love black hair men. My father has black hair, wonder, if that makes a difference in our preference? Also the King use to have…
5:59 p.m. R. in Plummer reports that tenants being evicted are trying to steal the water heater. 5:46 p.m. A driver is stuck in the I-90 median @ Mcguire Road after trying to cut across. 5:15 p.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activities report for Feb.…
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter talks about cowboy ethics and the ten principles to live by to Melba sophomore Kimberly Bangerter, right, and other members of the Melba High School Student Council during the Wednesday Capitol for a Day event at the Melba Valley Senior Center…
A respected Lakeland School District teacher has gotten rough treatment at the hands of swamp lizards that hang out at the Coeur d'Alene Press online site. Meghan Ridley, a special education teacher at Betty Kiefer School, was compared to infamous pedophile Mary Kay Letourneau by…
"You behave less like a government agency concerned with the general welfare than an occupying army. Your conduct here was likened by your own Ombudsman, Hugh Kaufman, a decade ago as the behaviour of "jack-booted thugs." We miners are Parisians in Vichy France. For every…
Right now, at Washington's largest corrections center for women, 871 inmates are serving their sentences. Among them are 8 babies being raised right in the middle of it all. It's a trailblazing program pioneered by Washington and now being adopted in other states. But, is…
I was quite partisan when I started this blog 8 years ago today with the warning to the few readers then to "fasten your seatbelts." Originally, I began No Holds Barred/Hot Potatoes/Huckleberries as a means to support George Bush's re-election run. I was one of…
On her Idaho Scenic Images Facebook page, photographer Linda Lantzy has posted her 12 favorite photographs of 2011, including this one taken at Mount Shuksan in the northern Cascades. She writes of this photo: "I had an October morning at Mt. Shuksan for a couple…
After reading on Hucks Online that the revolutionists in the Idaho Legislature had voted 49-20 to embrace Vito Barbieri's unconstitutional health-care nullification bill, Coeur d'Alene Councilman Mike Kennedy quipped: "I think I’ll make a motion at our next City Council meeting to nullify Idaho’s sales…
Item: Hear ye, hear ye: No cleavage: Students host their own medieval-themed ‘clean prom’/Maureen Dolan, Press More Info: It was a junior prom with a modesty rule. That's how the teens who planned it wanted it. Barbara Larson, 16, said they planned their "clean prom"…
Last week the Idaho legislature scheduled three days of hearings to get feedback from the public about Superintendent Tom Luna's surprising proposal to completely overhaul Idaho's education system. Senator John Goedde (pictured in Betsy Russell photo) is a Republican from Coeur d'Alene and chairman of…
At Yahoo! Sports, reporter Jay Busbee writes: "You know Tiger Woods hasn't been playing well of late. He had a chance at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic over the weekend before posting a godawful 75, and that was pretty much that. Now, though, word that…
The House has voted 49-20 in favor of HB 117, the health care nullification bill. In his closing debate, Rep. Vito Barbieri, R-Dalton Gardens, said in his closing debate, “Now is the time. If Idaho is to stand for its sovereign rights, it must do…
Arnold Schwarzenegger visited Lewiston this morning to meet with sculptor Ralph Crawford, who will sculpt an 8-foot statue of the California governor/movie star for Schwarzenegger's Austrian home town. More from Lewiston Tribune here. (Lewiston Tribune photo: Kyle Mills) Cartoon: Taking on the ayatollahs/David Horsey, Seattle…
11:37 a.m. PFPD Blue reports simply from Post Falls Tidyman's: "I got that guy." 11:24 a.m. Someone possibly broke a hip in a fall in 2200 block of Yorkshire/CdA. 11 a.m. Woman now at Cataldo post office wants to see officer re: threats she's received.…
In an Idaho Statesman editorial this morning, Kevin Richert breaks down the unanimous move by the Idaho House of Representatives to change the way it handles ethics complaints. Among the most troubling aspects of the new rules that are now in effect is this one:…
Rep. Tom Trail, R-Moscow, asked Rep. Vito Barbieri about unfunded mandates that the state passes down to cities and counties. “Would they not have the right also to pursue nullification?” he asked. Barbieri responded, “Contrary to what others expressed here, I do not believe the…
Washington Fish and Wildlife Department biologists confirm the authenticity of this remote camera photo made in the Moses Coulee area near Soap Lake, Wash. Biologists the rare shot of eight cougars in one spot -- on the carcass of a dead animal -- is the…
Tuesday Poll: Lady Antebellum beat out Mick Jagger and Lady Gaga as the Grammy Award entertainer that Hucks Nation would most like to see in concert. Lady Antebellum received 33 of 89 votes (37%) to earn top honors here, followed by Jagger (21 votes), Lady…
Lawmakers have received two Idaho attorney general's opinions on nullification; the first said any attempt by state lawmakers to nullify a federal law through legislation would violate both the U.S. and Idaho constitutions and lawmakers' oath of office. The bill was revised after that, but…
In the current, pre-swimsuit edition of Sports Illustrated, writer Chris Ballard tells of a 2007 meeting at Capones in Midtown between NFL QB Jake Plummer and then Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Jon Gruden. Gruden and his traveling partner, GM Bruce Allen, visited Coeur d'Alene to…
Arthur the Aardvark and Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., center, listen as Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington this morning to discuss the future of Public Broadcasting. More here. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg) Question: Do you support federal funding…
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.
