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.…
... 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…
The McEuen Field designers will begin creating the construction documents to send the downtown park project out to bid. A divided Coeur d'Alene City Council agreed Tuesday to a $1.96 million architectural and engineering contract with the park's designers, Team McEuen, that should turn the…
Barry McHugh, the Kootenai County prosecutor (left), watches as caucus workers count ballots at New Life Church. McHugh was one of the Republican functionaries assigned to run one of the 10 GOP caucus sites throughout Kootenai County.
Reagan Repub: the Caucuses should be seriously retooled for 2016. The differing start times and each county having a differing number of votes left North Idaho hung out to dry. There should be a common start time state-wide (like 6:30 Pacific, 7:30 Mountain) There should…
Item: Romney pads lead; Santorum still in it: Delegate front-runner picks up key Ohio victory/David Espo, AP More Info: On the busiest night of the campaign, Romney scored a home-state win in Massachusetts to go with primary victories in Vermont and in Virginia – where…
Red Cedar: These vote totals mean nothing when the method of voting is to keep voting until the caucus has picked its single “winner”. There is no way that the majority of Idahoans favored Romney, at least not outside of the Mormon flatland down south.…
Huckleberries Phantom Photographer snapped this photo of a caucus voter who caught a little shut eye between rounds at the New Life Church site Tuesday night.
Meesterbox: It was a bit frustrating after the first round when only (Buddy Roemer, pictured) was eliminated. He received zero votes at our location and only made the process that much longer. Also in the first round Gingrich received 15.1% of the votes. I did…
The Idaho Republican Party announced its Caucus results today, with Mitt Romney declared the winner of the 2012 Idaho Republican Party Presidential Caucus. By winning over 50 percent of the counties’ proportion of delegates, Mitt Romney will therefore receive all of Idaho’s 32 delegates to…
It took until after midnight, but the wait was worth it for Rick Santorum (shown in AP photo Tuesday in Ohio) supporters. Following four rounds of voting, Santorum was the choice of Kootenai County Republicans in Idaho’s first presidential caucus. The Pennsylvanian received 674 votes…
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.