We're all suffering a bit of hangover from the caucus process -- the visits from the candidates to the ongoing discussion to the voting last night. But I agree with Reagan Repub that the process is invigorating, especially this year. Don't know what my friend…
A musher approaches a climb in the Farewell Burn during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Tuesday in Nikolai, Alaska. (AP Photo/The Anchorage Daily News, Marc Lester)
OrangeTV, who bartends at Mik's on 4th/downtown Coeur d'Alene writes of his bar that is isn't "exactly quiet, per se, but our clientele is known for it’s good behavior and we don’t allow any kind of riff-raff to take off if we can help it.…
Democrats have filed for all three legislative seats in the new Legislative District 2 -- Shirley McFadden of Athol for state Sen. Steve Vick's seat; Cheryl Stranskey of Coeur d'Alene for Rep. Vito Barbieri's post; and Dan English for Rep. Phil Hart's spot. Vick and…
HucksOnline will conduct a live online interview with Sandy Patano at 10:30 a.m. Thursday. Above, Sandy and Brad Corkill are pictured this morning after an interview w/Joe & Kerri about Tuesday's Kootenai County GOP caucus election and the North Idaho Political Action Committee that was…
5:49 p.m. 20ish male w/curly hair & beard hit another vehicle @ H95 & Haycraft/CdA & sped off in green beater w/taped up passenger window, heading toward Fruitland. 5:28 p.m. Officer chased man wanted named Justin on felony warrants in white Nissan from 4th &…
On her Facebook wall, Linda Lantzy of Idaho Scenic Images, posts this photo from inside an old structure in the Birch Creek Valley, southeast of Salmon. Posts Linda: "They had quite the view." Heart vs. Hart/Bay Views Day after Idaho GOP caucus/Dennis Mansfield Tipsy point,…
The bizarre Bonner County Property Rights Council (PRC) has issued its first draft “decision” in which they conclude that a simple common sense watershed protection ordinance is “unreasonable, unnecessary, and arbitrary.” How do they come to this conclusion? They simply presume ALL proposed ordinances are…
Layne Pavey, left, and Aaron Colby enjoy the perks of working in a bakery as they sample a couple of cupcakes at Sweet Frostings Blissful Bakeshop in Spokane. (January 2012 SR file photo Christoher Anderson) On her Facebook wall, Cindy started quite a thread with…
On his Facebook wall, David Townsend writes: "Well that bit of madness is over and we get a brief respite fromt he presidetial robo-calls. Show of hands. Has anyone ever been convinced to vote for anybody as a result of a recorded message you heard…
California Fish and Game Commission president Dan Richards listens to public comments during a commission meeting in Riverside, Calif. on Wednesday. Richards is under fire from some quarters for legally killing a mountain lion in Idaho. The big cats are protected in California. Story here.…
You can find a map containing last night's election results county-by-county here. (Simply hold cursor over county)
... That controversial Constitutionalist-turned-Republican Phil Hart is planning to run for re-election. Or at least that's how a Berry Picker interpreted circulation of Hart campaign literature by supporters at the Lakeland High GOP caucus site last night. Hart still hasn't filed his candidacy papers with…
And here's another of the drunk & disorderly stories that might go untold if it wasn't for the Downtown Coeur d'Alene Bar Report (from 2:49 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 12 at the Pita Pit, 320 E. Sherman): "Officers responded to a call at the Pita Pit…
A friendly hug between two men at a bar triggered catcalls and resulted in one of the huggers getting beaten. It all started around 12:30 a.m. Monday, Feb. 13. Here's the Downtown Coeur d'Alene Bar Report of the incident: "Officers responded to a battery call…
On his Political Theater blog, Libertarian commenter Lew Rockwell quotes a friend who attended the Idaho GOP caucus at the Coeur d'Alene Resort last night: "As we stood watching the vote counting, a priest explained to me that RP was the only true pro-life candidate.…
On her Facebook wall, Cindy posts: "The worst thing about being a grown-up is looking at your To-Do list and whining "Awww, I don't wanna. Do I hafta?"And then having to yell at yourself for wasting time whining." Question: What do you think the worst…
"Unconditional Surrender," which was modeled after a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt taken in Times Square on V-J Day at the end of World War II, is shown in San Diego. The three-ton painted sculpture has been on loan from a Santa Monica nonprofit since 2007,…
Today’s appetizer is a nice, big plate of crow: I was among those misguided observers who thought Ron Paul would win Idaho’s GOP caucus Tuesday. Don’t come to me next week looking for help filling out your brackets. You don’t want it. I may not…
Noonish: A ladder is lying on I-90 @ M/P 11 (NW Blvd/CdA), creating a traffic hazard. Noonish: Someone is suffering from uncontrolled bleeding on 2nd Avenue/Spirit Lake. Noonish: PFPD Blue can't catch "large brown chihuahua" running into traffic in front of Post Falls High. 11:53…
Here, the lawmaker who has spent eight years working for what might seem far less controversial goals is the only openly gay member of the Idaho Legislature. Now with the session well under way and a gay rights bill again showing little sign of getting…
Left to right: Jordan Kizer, Thaddaeus Hurley and Pete Nyhus look over data during Idaho's first Republican presidential caucus Tuesday in Moscow. Ron Paul won the Latah County caucus vote with 52.2 percent of the vote, on the first ballot, but Mitt Romney carried the…
Tuesday Poll: Ron Paul may be third in Idaho and last in the number of states won, but he's first in the hearts of Hucks Nation, winning the straw poll over Mitt Romney. Paul received 71 of 161 votes (44.1%) in a poll where respondents…
Vancouver Canucks goalie Roberto Luongo, right, is nearly hit in the mask by the skate of Dallas Stars' Adam Burish after he tripped over Luongo during the third period of an NHL hockey game in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Tuesday. You write the cutline. (AP…
Last fall, Gordon Yeager, 94, and his wife, Norma, 90, died together, holding hands in the Iowa hospital where they had been taken after a car accident. The final chapter of the couple’s seven-decade love story made headlines around the world. What the fulsome tributes…
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.
