Sen. Russ Fulcher, R-Meridian, has moved to send SB 1165, the bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks, to the full Senate with a recommendation that it pass, and Sen. Bart Davis, R-Idaho Falls, seconded the motion. Sen. Michelle Stennett, D-Ketchum, made a substitute motion…
"I went out yesterday evening between rain storms, looking for fog in the forest or something interesting," tweets Linda Lantzy/Idaho Scenic Images. "I'd about decided I wasn't going to find anything, but stopped by this muddy hillside runoff as it was getting dark. It was…
So here was the toss-up, silly as it seems now: Could David Stockton crack the lineup at, oh, Whitworth? This was the pants-seat deliberation three months ago – not even a debate, really, but just a couple of guys in the bleachers, considering the state…
What this adds up to is the same problem that has driven us into endless debt. DFO is willing to sacrifice the future of our nation, so that he doesn’t have to make hard choices now. I don’t doubt DFO’s sincerity and compassion and I…
With 50 years behind it, the Lake City Playhouse continues to stand strong. Perhaps better than ever, thanks to a $150,000 renovation that's on schedule to be completed this year. The significance of the project is clear, said George Green, Playhouse artistic director. "Simply put,…
We can’t define obscenity, as former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously suggested, but we know it when we see it. And no matter how we personally define obscenity, we don’t want to see it on a public library computer monitor, in plain view…
Rich Cesler, director of the Washington State Veterans Cemetery in Medical Lake, looks at a niche wall at the cemetery, where the cremated remains of veterans are stored, Monday.Cesler is part of a drive to find and honor the remains of military veterans. Shawn Vestal's…
Item: County doesn't change school levy vote: Canvass of March 8 election shows option 2 with 86 percent support/Maureen Dolan, Coeur d'Alene Press More Info: The commissioners did not re-tabulate the votes, as they were requested to do in a March 10 letter signed by…
Duane Rasmussen: The local Kootenai County Republican Central Committee has aligned itself with the Constitution Party. Phil Hart and other prominent members of the Constitution Party decided they were tired of having no real power. Phil Hart ran for the office of State Representative as…
JohnA: What the legislature is missing is that in their efforts to reign in big city URAs it is the small cities that will be ‘thrown under the bus’. For most small cities urban renewal is their only tool to attract new development. It is…
If Luna doesn’t like the Legislature, I suppose he could go online and get his own. I’m sure there’s plenty on Craigslist. Digger: I can just see how that ad would read… “Conservative super of public instruction seeks hot legislature for good times. Lets meet,…
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.
