If you haven’t been to Coeur d’Alene in a while, the transformation is remarkable: the mixed-use Riverstone development, the popular Kroc Community Center, a handsome new library, an array of higher education projects under way near North Idaho College and the Prairie Trail bicycle path.…
The news of TV legend Dick Clark’s death Wednesday had an especially deep impact on Mark Wilhelm, of Spokane. Wilhelm, 52, was a regular dancer on Clark’s signature show, “American Bandstand,” along with his sister, Elizabeth Godert-Wilhelm, for nearly five years in the mid- to…
(Councilman Steve Adams) is adamantly against the city accepting any federal money, and has voted against it several times. A political friend of controversial Rep. Phil Hart, R-Athol, Adams supports the state implementing a gold standard to compete as a secondary currency. He classifies federal…
The crowd gathered for the 7th annul Susan G Komen Race for the Cure in Spokane on Sunday. An estimated 7,500 runners, joggers and walkers participated in the 2012 race, a drop of 1,000 from 2011. Organizers were anticipating a drop in participation because of…
Eman: Funny thing is, I check everybody out. I look, glance, even stare, equally at folks from supermodels of both sexes to the creatures that roam the hallowed aisles of Wal-Mart,in actuality, I tend to re-gawk more at the more odd “creatures of love” than…
JimmyMAC: Went to lunch with the in laws after church today and brought up the recall. Recall folks hit up my mother and father in laws neighborhood as I had guessed they would. My father in law is as conservative as anyone I know. I’m…
Steve Adams, a new Coeur d’Alene councilman who refuses to support any issue that involves federal dollars, doesn’t like correction. After being corrected twice by City Attorney Mike Gridley for questionable statements, Adams asked Gridley in writing not to rebut him again during council meetings.…
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.
