I know I’m not going to get any sympathy from some of you. Some might find it poetic justice to see journalists agonizing because of something public records might reveal about them. (And yes, I can see where there could be journalistic value in using…
Campaign signs hang in a bathroom at the Bismarck Civic Center in Bismarck, N.D., today, before the start of the North Dakota Republican state convention. Convention delegates are choosing favored candidates for eight offices during convention floor sessions on Saturday and Sunday. (AP Photo/Dale Wetzel)…
Rational Universe: Didn’t we use to be a kinder people? Am I just being nostalgic? Or was there a stronger sense of community in the old North Idaho? An idea that we were all in this together? Now it is all- “Don’t tread on me”.…
Larry Spencer: "Why do men make fun of my hair, and women seem to like it?" Also: For your reading pleasure, you can find the lyrics of "Hair" here Anyone?
With the Mega Millions jackpot reaching a record high of $540 million dollars, thousands of people across the Inland Northwest are shelling out big bucks for a chance to strike it rich. Jen Gass, a clerk at Ady's Convenience and Car Wash in Post Falls…
Golf balls lie in the soggy Indian Canyon golf course driving range as geese swim in some of the deeper puddles Thursday in Spokane. Rainy cold days have delayed the opening of the course which hopes to welcome golfers this weekend or the beginning of…
Thursday Poll: Hucks Nation is playing the Mega Millions lottery. 76 of 135 respondents (56.3%) said they'd bought tickets for a chance at the $640M jackpot. 59 of 135 (43.7%) said they weren't. Idaho Journalists: A whopping 94% of the respondents (68 of 72) said…
Idaho Sens. Patti Anne Lodge, left, and Shawn Keough listen to Sen. Denton Darrington bid farewell to the Senate Thursday in Boise. Thursday was the final day of the 2012 legislative session. Betsy Russell's sine die story here. (AP Photo/The Idaho Statesman, Joe Jaszewski) Question:…
Tongue firmly cheeked, columnist Argus Hamilton of the Ardmoreite.com Web site writes about a North Idaho neo-Nazi's problem with running for office: "Idaho Ku Klux Klan leader Shaun Winkler announced he will run for Bonner County sheriff in May. His timing was bad. Right now…
He has been an Aryan Nations member and Ku Klux Klan leader, and now Shaun Winkler wants to be the sheriff in a rural Idaho county near the Canadian border. The white power activist is running as a Republican in the May 15 Bonner County…
Not long ago, my sister-in-law asked me a question that I hadn’t considered. Was I planning to let my son, who was then 3, play football? The question struck me as overly cautious. Why wouldn’t I? It won’t break my heart if he grows up…
JEERS ... to Sen. Nicole LeFavour, D-Boise. Idaho's only openly gay legislator, LeFavour has championed extending protection under Idaho's Human Rights Act to gays, lesbians and transgender people. As a Christmas present, LeFavour distributed DVD copies of "Brokeback Mountain" to 60 lawmakers at their homes.…
Non-returning Representatives gathered in the front of the Idaho House for photos. Erik Simpson (R-Idaho Falls), arms raised, has served two terms. The House finished up business and adjourned on Thursday in Boise. (AP Photo/Katherine Jones, Idaho Statesman) Question: Which of the many retiring legislators…
Item: Conservatives lose trust in science, study shows: Better educated change the most/Los Angeles Times More Info: A study released Thursday in the American Sociological Review concludes that trust in science among conservatives and frequent churchgoers has declined precipitously since 1974, when a national survey…
Call it Tuber Tour 2012. The Idaho Potato Commission is commemorating its 75th anniversary and hoping to dispel some bad press for potatoes by taking a lifelike, six-ton spud on a seven-month, 32-state tour. The Big Idaho Potato departs the state Capitol this morning with…
Kootenai County commissioner candidate Larry Spencer doesn't believe the county needs a parking garage built at the administration complex. "Voters want a lean government, and there is nothing lean about planning to spend $7.8 million on a county parking garage," said Spencer, running for the…
Huckleberries hears ... that no fireworks occurred at the Kootenai County GOP CC meeting Tuesday night, three days after the 2012 Lincoln Day Dinner, featuring controversial Richard Mack. One eyewitness told Huckleberries that sometimes when there's extraordinary tension in the air nothing happens. That may…
Kadie Anderson, a veterinary intern at Pt. Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma, Wash., gets up close with Sumatran tiger Malosi's teeth during a cleaning as part of a physical examination earlier this month. The tiger, under general anesthesia during the procedure, had a breathing…
Aaron: I’m not afraid to claim my California roots :) Being born in Los Angeles County and raised in the less populated areas of Riverside County-I watched a sleepy outlaw town of 30,000 swell into a sprawling city. I like the small town feel, amazingly…
5:28 p.m. 2 males, 1 in orange beanie & red coat & other in all black, jumped off BNSF train @ refueling station, H53 & McGuire, Hauser. RR police from Spokane en route. 5:19 p.m. Coeur d'Alene resident reports neighbor's pitbull is loose & rummaging…
A trio of turkeys were hanging out on Stickman's breezeway earlier this week in the East Tubbs Hill Park area by Coeur d'Alene's Sanders Beach. Idaho House adjourns/Betsy Russell, EOB Flood advisories issued for Inland Northwest/SR Senate OKs $35.7M tax cut for 17% of Idaho…
Dinosaurman (re: right-wing blog political cartoon lampooning DFO): I admit I chuckled too, but didn’t want to say so for fear of getting shipped to Siberia. Perhaps message Chuckleberries, I’ll check my side to see if anyone knows a source. I’m drawing blanks, but do…
Republican Jeri DeLange (pictured) announced today that she is withdrawing her candidacy in the primary for State Representative, District 2, Seat B, due to the high number of candidates who filed for this position. DeLange believes that it’s more important to step aside to allow…
The Senate has adopted proposed new ethics rules in a straight party-line vote, 28-7. In his closing debate, Senate Majority Leader Bart Davis said, “There's a lot that was said in opposition to the bill that I agree with.” But he said a public ethics…
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.
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