Growing up in Idaho, parents engendered a love for the outdoors often through sharing productive past times of hunting and fishing. If parents didn't, exposure came through friends, other relatives or simple proximity to the outdoors. Many received hunter safety classes in seventh grade and…
In an op-ed column Saturday, John Webster, my conservative boss for many years on the Spokesman-Review editorial page, explains why he is no longer a Republican: I used to be a Republican. Voted for them. Wrote nice things about them and their policies. When I…
Kevin Carroll, a prosthetist whose development of the first prosthetic tail for a dolphin helped inspire the movie “Dolphin Tale,” pays a visit to Isabelle James, 9. Isabelle, who lives in Worley, lost her leg in a lawn mower accident. Adrian Rogers SR story here.…
Idaho voters are riled up and ready to vote, with a contentious school-reform debate reverberating in the state's airwaves and decisions looming on every seat in the Legislature, key local races, two constitutional amendments, Congress and more. Idaho Secretary of State Ben Ysursa is predicting…
I probably don’t have to tell you that the newspaper industry hasn’t exactly been in a super-duper period of late. The layoffs, the cutbacks, the revocation of my parking pass … A sad situation, indeed. Yet despite all the gloom, I’ve tried to maintain the…
Thom George, a former Kootenai County Democratic Party chairman, moved from Seattle to New York in time for Hurricane Sandy. Luckily, the New York native and social media addict knows a shopkeeper who provides electricity to recharge laptops and cellphones. Thom was in the middle…
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.
