Coeur d'Alene Held Hostage, Day 36: A Berry Picker reports to Huckleberries Online that there's a Recaller in front of the Breakfast Nook on Fourth Street. Dunno if state Rep. Kathy Sims is continuing her lonely vigil in front of the hardware store at 11th…
Groom Inocencio Diaz washes mud off Kentucky Derby Winner I'll Have Another's hoof after a walk around the track at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore on Wednesday. I'll Have Another is expected to run in the Preakness Stakes on May 19. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
The latest installment of Joker Tales: Stan was busy playing Call of Duty 3 on his X-Box 360 when he heard a knock on his bedroom door. “Yo, come in.” It was Kyle, a lifelong buddy since grade school. “Man, what are you doing here?…
5:15 p.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activities report for May 8-9 here. 4:57 p.m. Officer arrests biker wanted for driving over 100 mph @ Beachhouse marina. 4:44 p.m. R/P reports a suspicious-looking male in 300 block of E. Whispering Pines/CdA. 4:39 p.m. Semi has scraped…
Dan O'Brien speaks during the re-dedication of the renovated Dan O'Brien Track and Field Complex at the Univesity of Idaho in Moscow on Monday. Moscow-Pullman Daily News story here. (AP Photo/Moscow-Pullman Daily News, Geoff Crimmins) Spokane tasting rooms roll out white wines/SR Still no answers…
Former Coeur d'Alene Press reporter Keith Erickson, lower right, listens at the back of the Lake City Senior Center Tuesday evening while state Rep. Kathy Sims, R-Coeur d'Alene, denounces Lake City Development Corp. Keith now handles public relations for the urban renewal district. Wanna hear…
On its Facebook page, St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church announces: "A sad day for our parish family, the Redemptorist community and our entire area...a true "one of a kind" has passed on. Fr. George Rassley was called Home suddenly, but mercifully in his sleep…
This October 2007 photo shows retired United Airlines pilot Denny Fitch at his home in St. Charles, Ill., Fitch is the pilot who who helped save 184 people following the July 19, 1989, crash-landing of a United Airlines DC-10 that killed 111 people at the…
Whatever else this season’s Idaho Republican civil war may be, it is not about “conservatism” – whatever that word may mean. It is not about “philosophy.” Just about all of the Republicans on the ballot this year for legislative office or higher in Idaho are…
Sun Belt Commissioner Karl Benson isn’t willing to close the door on inviting Idaho to join his league, but at least one Vandal player is expressing public concern about the future of his football program. The WAC, Idaho’s athletic home since 2005, is being picked…
Reagan Republican-endorsed Ed Morse has raised more than twice as much money as embattled incumbent state Rep. Phil Hart in their four-way fight for the House District 2 seat in the Republican primary Tuesday. According to campaign finance reports, Morse has raised just under $16,500…
Ending months of equivocation, President Barack Obama declared his support for gay marriage today, an announcement fraught with history that also injects a potentially polarizing issue into the 2012 race for the White House. “I have hesitated on gay marriage in part because I thought…
A trio of pound-adopted dogs, from left, "BJ," "DJ," and "CJ," wait in their cart to hit the road with cyclist-owner Adam Barghi, on the Fulton Mall at the end of the annual Mall-to-Mall Bike Ride today as part of the national May is Bike…
Cindy Hval: "In Non Recall Non Election news, we’re thinking about attending the Blues Festival in Wallace this summer. We’ve never been to Wallace. Can anyone suggest a nice place to stay that isn’t too pricey? Or is it best to stay in Cda and…
Kootenai County Prosecutor Barry McHugh, pictured, has raised a few thousand dollars more than Tea Party candidate Donald Gary in their local GOPrimary race. Campaign finance statements show for the 7-day, pre-election reporting period show that McHugh has raised $17,709 to Gary's $13,281. Top contributors…
Harry Truman famously said, “If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.” I’ll offer the Johnson Corollary to Truman’s great one liner: “in politics, it is almost always your friends who cause you trouble.” Most every politician I have known has a very…
Looks like our friends at OpenCDA.com are jumping to conclusions re: a dirty trick pulled by someone on a Recaller's house in Coeur d'Alene. Bill McCrory assumes that this act of vandalism was performed by an anti-recall proponent. I received this message from Sara Meyer…
The U.S. Export-Import Bank reauthorization isn’t the only business-friendly legislation riling some Republicans these days. “Republicans are always protecting Big Business instead of protecting the market,” fiscal conservative Rep. Raul Labrador (R., Idaho) said in an interview with Washington Wire today — as House Republican…
The Daily Show is in Idaho to shoot a field piece about the two-headed fish pictured in a report commissioned by the JR Simplot Co as a part of its effort to get the Environmental Protection Agency to raise the limits for selenium in streams.…
State Rep. Kathy Sims, R-Coeur d'Alene, in white jacket at bottom left, waits to speak at an anti-Lake City Development Corp. forum at the Lake City Senior Center Tuesday night. (Phantom Photographer photo) Keith Erickson (who now handles public relations for LCDC reports on anti-LCDC…
12:02 p.m. Female @ PFPD has questions re: parking codes & event parking. 11:49 a.m. Kelly reports to KCSD Marine division that he found a dock floating on Lake CdA. 11:44 a.m. Lake City High student out-of-control, throwing chairs & breaking things. 11:33 a.m. R/P…
Washington State University junior tennis player Lieumila Vasilieva poses for a photo before the start of practice on Monday on WSU's campus in Pullman, Wash. Story here. (SR photo: Tyler Tjomsland) Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SR Idaho's Atlanta faces financial emergency/Katy Moeller, Statesman Captured Idaho soldier…
A Berry Picker sends in this photo of a Coeur d'Alene Recaller set up near the Breakfast Nook on Fourth Street today. DFO: Feel free to use this thread for any updates re: the attempted overthrow of Coeur d'Alene city government by the Souza-Orzell-Sims Recallers.
Tuesday Poll: Only 6 percent (11 of 190 respondents) of Hucks Nation support the Idaho GOP platform plank disenfranchising Idaho voters by calling for election of Idaho's U.S. senators by the Legislature. 129 of 190 (67.89%) responded "hell no" when asked if they support the…
Idaho GOP Chairman Norm Semanko defends his party's closed primaries: "To help better explain why the Idaho Republican Party supported such a change, it might help to imagine a rivalry football game between the Boise State Broncos and the Idaho Vandals (unfortunately, imagination is all…
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.
