Looks like the Mitt/Newt/Rick/Ron road show will continue a bit longer after seeing the results from Colorado, Minnesota, and Missouri last night. If I were Mitt, I'd be wondering why I didn't have things wrapped up by now, what with all that money in the…
Finished roses, which students welded and painted, stand on a table during the welding class at Eisenhower High School in Yakima, Wash, Tuesday. The roses are being sold for Valentine's Day and the proceeds from the sales go to help the welding club. (AP Photo/Yakima…
Introverts are in the news, even if they’d rather not be. Time, NPR, Scientific American, and a host of other media sources are all buzzing about the new book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, by Susan Cain. Introverts…
5:19 p.m. Drunk woman in Ford, registered in Hayden, is leaving CdA casino/Worley. 4:56 p.m. Intecept House employee in blue Highlander is following 19YO male who broke window of house & now is walking on Ohio Match Road toward Rimrock. Psychological evaluation requested. (5:02 p.m.…
Echo Oaksizes up her right hand to her left Friday at her, "New Atitude" salon in downtown Billings, Mont., last week. Echo was in an ice climbing accident last year and had severe frostbite on her hands. She lost the tips to some of her…
The paranoid silliness of the Bonner County Property Rights Council has evidently gone national. A far-right website (in their Homeland Security section, of course) has picked up on the establishment of the Property Rights Council and is promoting it as a heroic development in a…
Former Idaho Congressman Bill Sali, who popped up at the Statehouse today proposing a specialty license plate bill to raise funds for his new nonprofit organization, the “American Heritage Foundation,” says he's considering running for the state Legislature again. “I am looking at this open…
IFG officer Greg Johnson looks at an elk which had to be freed from a pile of hay after getting its antlers entangled in it. IFG freed the animal and it ran off into the woods. Bonners Ferry Fire Chief Pat Warkentin submitted this photo…
Councilman Steve Adams made the following comment to Jon Mueller during discussion of a proposed zone change for the Education Corridor: The whole entire Ed Corridor project got scrutiny from its very inception mainly due to the funding process, the complicated, back door method, bypassing…
A judge in Kootenai County district court has declared the June 6 appointment of Wanda Quinn to the Coeur d'Alene School Board to be null and void. Trustees Tom Hamilton and Terri Seymour, who were elected in May and sworn into office on July 1,…
Reports commissioned by the J.R. Simplot Co. show a link between selenium contamination at its Smoky Canyon mine and a wide range of deformities in fish, including some examples of two-headed trout. The reports, carried out by consulting firms that Simplot hired, are part of…
When you get past the lofty parliamentary title, “joint memorials” are nothing more than legislative e-mails to Congress. They are nonbinding. They carry no weight, but they give lawmakers a forum for carping about the federal gummint — something they might otherwise be reduced to…
Duroc (RE: Bill Sali wants specialty plate, too): Oh, and I forgot: the money raised by the plate will go the Duroc Needs to Buy More Beer Heritage Foundation. It’s a very important non-profit group here in the state of Idaho. Donations of microbrew IPAs…
In this June 9, 1998, file photo, Keiko, who starred in the Free Willy films, carries a live crab in his mouth while cavorting in his pool at Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport, Ore. Dr. Steven Brown, the veterinarian at the Oregon Coast Aquarium who…
Former Idaho Congressman Bill Sali persuaded an Idaho House committee today to introduce a bill to fund his new nonprofit organization, the “American Heritage Foundation,” through a new specialty license plate that would bear the motto “In God We Trust.” The foundation, which Sali and…
The notes of the Coeur d'Alene City Council meeting last night may explain why new Councilmen Dan Gookin and Steve Adams voted against the proposed zone change to commercial of part of the Education Corridor: ". "Councilman Adams expressed his belief that his constitutional right…
A raffle prize of two free tickets to the Gonzaga Bulldog home game this weekend will be offered to an entrant in this week's News Quiz, prepared by colleague Jim Camden. You don't have to win to be eligible for the tickets to the Zags'…
Interestingly, new Councilman Dan Gookin was the only City Council member to oppose the appointment of former Councilman John Bruning to the Natural Open Space Ad Hoc & Arts Commission last night. Even Councilman Steve Adams, who defeated Bruning in a three-way race in November,…
A Facebook Friend writes: "Pulled over for doing 12 mph over speed limit. Totally played the cancer card. Got off with a warning. Thank you, sir." Question: When did you last talk your way out of a speeding ticket?
Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington earlier today to criticize President Barack Obama for insisting that employers must provide health insurance that includes birth control for women. House Speaker John Boehner said at the news conference that…
Noonish: Real Life Ministries, 1866 N. Cecil/PF, reports 46YO woman suffering seizure. Noonish: An elderly man is suffering breathing problems in 7300 blo9ck of Elm/PF. 11:45 a.m. KCSD is looking for black 1999 trailer in good condition when stolen Jan. 20. 11:01 a.m. Coeur d'Alene…
The House State Affairs Committee has voted - with just two “no” votes from Reps. Tom Loertscher and Joe Palmer - to kill HB 392, the bill to move Idaho's primary election back to August. “I don't have any illusions about the outcome of this…
There are few enduring truths in politics. Money usually wins would be one truism. Optimism beats gloom would be another. The truism that once and future GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney keeps finding wrapped around his campaign axle is the old line about voters first needing…
JimmyMAC & the Coeur Group will be moderating a forum for Kootenai County sheriff's candidates in the community room of the Coeur d'Alene Library at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22. The event is being conducted by the Coeur d'Alene Police Officer's Association, with Jimmy's group…
Idaho legislators can certainly come up with more than their share of home-grown and ill-conceived ideas. The last thing they need to do is import ideas from — egads! — California. Nevertheless, a group of lawmakers wants to bring a little bit of California into…
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.
