Your mother wants you to know that smoking is bad for you, and she's doing everything she can to make sure you either don't take up the habit or, if you are smoking, that you quit right away. By "your mother," of course I mean…
Marty Trillhaase, the Lewiston Tribune opinionator, gives jeers to Idaho Senate Idaho Senate President Brent Hill, R-Rexburg, and House Speaker Lawerence Denney, R-Midvale. Quoth: "Under their leadership, the Legislature has put public schools, higher education, health care and state government in general on a starvation…
In the Coeur d'Alene Press editorial this morning, Editor Mike Patrick argues that the search committee to replace North Idaho College President Priscilla Bell (who's retiring at the end of 2011-12 year) should look for local candidates, too. Quoth Patrick: "Why not prepare the job…
NBA Commissioner David Stern, left, poses with the No. 11 overall draft pick, Washington State guard Klay Thompson, who was selected by the Golden State Warriors in the NBA basketball draft Thursday in Newark, N.J. Story below. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun) Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SR Thursday…
The head of a lawn deer remains above the flood waters from the Souris River in an evacuated western neighborhood of Minot, N.D., this morning. About one-fourth of the city's 40,000 residents have evacuated their homes. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) Question: Have you ever been…
Question (from Lynne, after reading AM Scanner Traffic Thursday AM): "Is scanner traffic = actual 911 calls?" Answer (from Sgt. Christie Wood/Coeur d'Alene Police Department): No. Many of the calls are fielded by the various police departments. But they're all dispatched through the 911 centers.…
LastDemoInIdaho: We sure remember this place (Great American Restaurant). My wife and daughter just loved it because it got them out of the house and the wife didn’t have to cook that night! The pasta was OK, I guess, but we are not professional pasta…
DeePee: If you’re in the CdA area, drop whatever else you were planning to do and wrap yourself around some of Bent’s BBQ. Bent and his entourage were up here in Wallace last weekend for the Lead Creek Derby and we feasted on his slow-cooked…
Item: Charter goes to head of the class: Cd'A school ranks 59th in national survey/Maureen Dolan, Press More Info: Coeur d'Alene Charter Academy's star continues to rise on the lists of national high school rankings. The public school, serving grades six- through- 12, ranks 59th…
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.
