Go big. That's the message from a bipartisan group of 34 senators, including Idaho Republican Mike Crapo. The senators are urging a House-Senate "supercommittee" to go beyond its assignment to find $1.5 trillion in deficit reductions. Instead, say the senators, the supercommittee should seek a…
On March 2, Richard Peters called his wife, Katie, in Coeur d’Alene from the Libyan capital of Tripoli. Peters, a 62-year-old former Navy SEAL, had been in Libya for two months trying to secure work as a contractor. Escalating protests against Moammar Gadhafi were spreading…
Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor holds a copy of the Constitution before a recitation of preamble, at the National Constitution Center earlier today in Philadelphia. Saturday marks the 224th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) Question: Why is the…
The toddler who was trapped underwater when her family's SUV rolled into Fernan Lake last month is now walking and talking again.14-month-old River Deshazer has been released from Sacred Heart Medical Center. But for Blaine Porter, the firefighter whose quick thinking saved the little girl's…
LoveToHateMe: Thanks to my high standardized testing scores I didn’t have to take any remedial courses. I was, however, forced to take an English for Idiots course (as I called it). My school had a soft requirement of an English Composition course. I think it…
JimmyMAC: it’s easy to take the things I love about CdA for granted. I don’t care for the gnarly winters when we have them but it probably makes me appreciate the warm seasons that much more. I’m not crazy about the industries we have/don’t have,…
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.
