Reviewing this year's legislative session, Legislative Services Director Jeff Youtz told the Legislative Council this morning that this year's unprecedented large public hearings were a success. “By and large it went very well, I thought,” Youtz told the council, which is chaired by House Speaker…
I saw a news report out of Twin Falls last month that got me thinking a bit more about the current state of public employee union negotiations. Thanks to the education reforms passed by the Legislature last winter, labor negotiations between the teachers' union and…
Robbie Johnson's decision to get in better shape for his last year of high school football turned out to be a life changer. When the Clarkston student started working out, he weighed 365 pounds and rarely exercised. He didn't think twice about eating fast food…
JEERS ... to Idaho State Police Cpl. Fred Rice. You can no longer rely on a cop to tell the truth when his testimony condemns someone to 25 years in prison. Rice walked into a 2006 trial of Jonathan Wade Ellington (pictured at 2006 trial)…
A federal grand jury charged two-time presidential candidate John Edwards on Friday with soliciting and covering up the secret spending of more than $925,000 to hide his mistress and their baby during the peak of his 2008 campaign for the White House. The grand jury's…
From his perch above downtown Coeur d'Alene, Don Sausser snapped this photo of EMTs responding to a report of a man down at 1st & Lakeside. Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SR Thursday Scanner Traffic/DFO, Hucks Online Finally, a weekend forecast worth tweeting/Spokesman-Review Opinion: Al-Kidd wins small…
In this Feb. 6, 1991 photo, retired Royal Oak, Mich. pathologist, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, left, listens as his attorney, Geoffrey N. Fieger, talks with reporters, after return of the Suicide Machine. A lawyer and friend of Kevorkian says the assisted suicide advocate has died at…
Item: Complaints of alleged politicking by Idaho educators released: Luna says 25 calls and emails prompted his May 13 warning that teachers could be fired for ethical misconduct/Dan Popkey, Idaho Statesman More Info: Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna fielded complaints about educators pressuring…
But then, perhaps, a miracle. On a whim Scott Jensen's wife called a vet in Cheney. That vet had an injured dog matching Annie's description. The dog had been brought in the day before.It was Annie.Turns out she had been hit by a train Friday…
A man accused of masturbating while videotaping the reaction of a barista is a supervisor at Silverwood Theme Park. Matt Alan Lambert's public defender told a judge that today when asking for Lambert to be released from jail on his own recognizance or on a…
The latest dose of accommodation comes from the Coeur d’Alene Press, which is owned by grandiosity magnate Duane Hagadone. The Press published an editorial last week glibly dismissing the work of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations as yesterday’s news. The editorial –…
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.
