Idaho Gov. Butch Otter and Coeur d'Alene recall leader Mary Souza chat during the Unity Dinner, sponsored by the Post Falls Pachyderm Club, Monday night, April 30. (Phantom Photographer file photo) Arsaken: The whole Mayor Gookin/Councilwoman Souza thing is a truly terrifying possibility. I hope…
Norther (re: Poll: Don't want MLK Way In CdA): Just to make it all fair and easy, let’s just remove all street names and number them, instead. All North/South streets can be called 1st Street, etc, and all East/West streets can be called avenues or…
Huckleberries hears ... that Coeur d'Alene School District teachers are encouraging one another to attend Thursday's district negotiation meeting at Woodland Middle School at 4:30. The meeting is open to the public. Teachers will be wearing black in order to show their support for the…
Newly elected President Abraham Lincoln sat for more than an hour with plaster drying on his face, to create a life mask that then was used to fashion statues of the imposing man. Five years later, in 1865, he sat for another life mask -…
The total misuse of the recall process is the real villain here. The mayor and council members have not broken any law, or misused their office, nor has any one of them been involved in scandalous behavior. These four people have not neglected their duties,…
Kevin Chestnut gives words of encouragement to Cruise, a Bedlington terrier in the show ring during the judging of the terrier class Tuesday at the Kootenai County Fairgrounds in Coeur d'Alene. Cruise took fourth place. Following on the heels of the Spokane Kennel Club show…
Hostess Brands, the Texas-based maker of bread and snack cakes, filed a notice to the state this month warning of layoffs across Idaho. The notice, required by law, warned of layoffs or plant closures by July 7. The company said the cuts would affect 34…
Sheriff's Major Ben Wolfinger, the Republican nominee for Kootenai County sheriff, stands at parade rest during the Hayden Memorial Day event outside Hayden City Hall. (Phantom Photographer photo)
12:29 p.m. On I-90 b/n NW Blvd & Huetter, e/b & w/b traffic is reduced to one lane by fire in median. 12:25 p.m. R/P reports brush fire @ 24563 N. Old Highway 95/Athol. 12:22 p.m. Hayden woman reports grandmother hit her son on Friday.…
Tuesday Poll: Hucks Nation doesn't want Coeur d'Alene to follow Spokane's lead and designate a city street to honor Martin Luther King Jr. 109 of 152 respondents (71.71%) said they would oppose such a move. Only 35 of 152 respondents (23.03%) support such action. 8…
In preliminary voting results, U.S. House of Representatives incumbent Lamar Smith, who has served in Congress since 1987, clinched the Republican nomination for the District 21 race with 76.5 percent of the vote. He will face Candace Duval, who beat Daniel Boone for the Democratic…
Huckleberries has heard the rumors that Councilman Dan Gookin has checked his qualifications to become mayor and dropped Mary Souza's name as Gov. Butch Otter's appointee to the City Council should the RecallCDA effort succeed. Also, Huckleberries has heard that Recallers will help County Clerk…
The state of Idaho has poured Five Wives Vodka a shot of free publicity. Not that Ogden's Own Distillery is in an ideal position to cash in. The Utah-produced vodka is essentially a controlled substance in Idaho, where the rules of private enterprise govern nearly…
A downtown Coeur d'Alene business that opposes the attempted recall of Coeur d'Alene Mayor Sandi Bloem and three council members received another nasty postcard from an anonymous sender.
Organizers for the group, Recall CDA, say they're close to getting a petition on the ballot. On the chopping block are Coeur d'Alene Mayor Sandy Bloem, Councilmen Mike Kennedy and Woody McEvers, and Councilwoman Deanna Goodlander. The magic number for Recall CDA is just above…
When Amanda Andaverde of Caldwell fell 25 feet from a third-floor fraternity room window, suffering serious injuries, who was at fault? Through their lawyers, Raul Andaverde and Esmerelda Banda seek to place the blame all over the map: They say the University of Idaho and…
Second District Congressman Mike Simpson continues to make a case to be Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives some day. He believes in solving problems and making government work. We need more like him. He recently spoke candidly to the Idaho Conservation Leagues’ annual…
Let's set the record straight: The Associated Press and 16 Idaho news organizations, including the Lewiston Tribune and Moscow-Pullman Daily News, are not trying to change how executions are conducted in this country. No, it's the state of Idaho that wants to change the rules.…
In this March 15, 2000, file photo, master flatpicker Doc Watson talks about his long and successful musical career at his home in Deep Gap, N.C. Watson, the Grammy-award winning folk musician whose lightning-fast style of flatpicking influenced guitarists around the world for more than…
Mitt Romney clinched the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday with a win in the Texas primary, a triumph of endurance for a candidate who came up short four years ago and had to fight hard this year as voters flirted with a carousel of GOP rivals.…
This is not an argument for the University of Idaho to drop its football program from the highest level in intercollegiate sports to the next highest level. It is simply an argument that if a step down becomes necessary, as it well might, there are…
Coeur d'Alene School District 271 said RecallCdA did not have permission to solicit signatures on school property over the weekend. RecallCdA gathered signatures from the parking lot at Lake City High School Saturday through Monday without the district's permission, counter to policy dictating how non-school…
Coeur d'Alene Held Hostage, Day 54: I spent a glorious week with Amy Dearest & Okie Doke rushing around town to pick up a wedding dress (monster H/T to Storybook @ Gibbs Event Center on Northwest Boulevard) and then preparing and taking down decorations and…
A Great Dane's head is held erect by its handler in the show ring earlier today at the Kootenai County Fairgrounds in Coeur d'Alene. It was the second and final day of the Coeur d'Alene Dog Fanciers show, which brought dogs and their owners from…
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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