Jesus gathered his disciples around his father’s workshop and picked up a fresh cut board, smelling the richness of the wood. “Today, I want to talk to you about a troublesome scourge that each one of you will face one day. As we build our…
To get from her front door to the end of the driveway, Alicia Tatum needs a boat. Two weeks ago, she could park her car in the meadow surrounding the mobile home where she lives with her cousin. But steady rains and high flows in…
Idaho Republican Rep. Raul Labrador is looking past the November election with a bill that would give states opportunities to show they do a better job managing national forest lands. Labrador knows his bill, which would establish pilot projects to turn over about 1 percent…
If only real orphans, you know n the kind that lack fur, sharp teeth and the instinct to kill n received so much attention. The good news, of course, is the little wolf pup has found a home. And a family, according to news reports…
Jennifer Locke, a Kootenai County GOP precinct committeewoman, looks for a reaction from a fellow protester during presentation by Todd Messenger of consultant Kendig Keast Collaborative at a county workshop on the Unified Land Use Code project. Both attended the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee…
Who gave Grover Norquist, pictured, head of Americans for Tax Reform, authority over what, if any, tax can be raised to bring the country back from the brink of financial disaster? Ask your member of Congress. Ask Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash. Ask Sens. Mike…
Recall organizer Frank Orzell, pictured, isn’t done after all. Relax: He’s just asking the newspaper to perform a public service. Orzell compiled a list from Kootenai County Elections Department data of nearly 370 people who signed recall petitions against four city incumbents, but whose signatures…
The cops call them “ropes,” and they are tying themselves into knots – big, expensive, dangerous knots – throughout the community. Repeat offenders, career criminals, call them what you want. A huge proportion of crime is committed by a tiny number of people whose entire…
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.
