The House has voted 62-7 in favor of HB 236, a revamped version of Rep. Bob Nonini's bill to let the Kootenai Technical Education Campus, a joint project of three North Idaho school districts for vocational ed, move up its construction schedule by a year,…
We were disappointed to see the Coeur d’Alene press editorial today, pitting well-meaning citizens against each other unnecessarily over accessibility to Tubbs Hill. The CDA Press promotes a false choice between accessibility and protecting the natural setting — both values important to our community, but…
To the delight of many Republicans and the consternation of Democrats, the conservative, free market education and public policy organization has helped shape many of this year’s most important pieces of legislation, from changes in urban renewal laws to opposition to wolf introduction. What may…
A proposal from two lawmakers and a group of North Idaho residents to go back to gold and silver currency failed to get introduced in a House committee last week – or even to draw any motion to act on it at all. Reps. Phil…
The education “reform” package sprung unexpectedly on Idaho by schools super Tom Luna has claimed its first victim. Meghan Ridley, a special-ed teacher and teacher of the year recipient in the Lakeland School District, has had enough. She quit her job last week after being…
Coeur d'Alene police gathered in the halls of Woodland Middle School in Coeur d'Alene on Friday after a stabbing. An eighth-grader was taken into custody and charged with aggravated assault in the knife attack. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka) March continues with showers, clouds/Mike Prager, SR…
Greg Gumbel, the Bert Parks of Selection Sunday, hadn’t even taken his first breath when the yowling began drifting in from Bracket Nation. UAB? Clemson? If the NCAA committee was going to put anyone in, why not Northwestern, which has had its nose against the…
It’s a Wild West sideshow at the Idaho Legislature these days, where some of the elected buckaroos are trying to rewrite the “Three R’s” of higher ed. If they get their way, college soon will be a place of “Reading, ’Riting and Rugers.” A legislative…
Re: Not ready for stabbing at Woodland Middle School Today’s (school resource officers) are even busier. They are spread thin with the large volume of students that either commit crimes or are victims of crimes in their own home. On the flip side of that…
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.
