How about joining me for a monster hat tip to sometimes HucksOnline blog sub & fashionista extraordinaire Christa Hazel, who provided us with superb blow-by-blow coverage of the Coeur d'Alene School Board meeting last night. Saaalute. HucksOnline is a strange, collaborative effort that relies on…
Facebook Friend Robin Loznak of Kellogg, Ore., posts: " Surface tension holds a small ant in a water drop on a fall leaf at Stewart Park in Roseburg this morning." You can see more of Robin's outdoors photography here.
The questions asked at Tuesday night's presidential debate will be left to a coterie of undecided voters assembled by Gallup pollsters, so don't be surprised if they invite President Obama and his Republican opponent, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, to pander to address concerns unique…
5:43 p.m. Fuel truck driver uninjured after crashing into ditch on H3/MP 112 (Killarney Lake). 5:41 p.m. Coeur d'Alene Casino security reports hit-and-run accident in parking lot. 5:15 p.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activities report for Oct. 15-16 here. 4:51 p.m. Female bicyclist walking around…
A squirrel leaps to a branch in a maple tree to chase another squirrel on Monday, near Fourth Street in Coeur d'Alene. (AP Photo/Coeur d'Alene Press, Jerome A. Pollos) Regional wineries buzzing/Mike Prager, SR Moose spotting on University of Idaho campus/KBOI WSU student hospitalized w/meningitis…
On The Slice blog, Paul Turner writes: "Switching back and forth could get confusing. Especially if the candidates decide to hold baseball gloves up in front of their mouths when speaking." Question: Which are you planning to watch tonight -- the presidential debate? The American…
Idaho is considering whether to keep three education laws that overhaul everything from how teachers are paid to how kids learn in the classroom. Voters in several states across the country will decide on education measures this November. Washington votes on whether to allow charter…
MikeK: From my understanding of the legal process, the city can’t just purchase the land without going through a formal process wherein the land is declared surplus and without pursuing a land trade as a first step. The school district giving 30 days for a…
The most frequent specific reaction to the book Martin Peterson and I just released, Idaho 100: The people who most influenced the Gem State, is this: Only five women out of 100 people? Really? The same thought occurred to us as we populated the list.…
Leaves rest on top of the roof of a Tri-Met shelter at SW 6th & Salmon in Portland, Ore., Monday. (AP Photo/The Oregonian, Brent Wojahn)
On Monday, Cat Davis (pictured in Jesse Tinsley SR photo) got a fabulous early birthday present: An independent medical review board overturned her insurance company’s decision to deny her a potentially life-saving stem cell transplant. Davis, who turned 25 today, was ecstatic. “God hears prayers,”…
The relationship betwen the Coeur d'Alene School District and the city of Coeur d'Alene was souring even before the decision by the school trustees to sell its part of Person Field last night. On Aug. 2, Superintendent Hazel Bauman, pictured, and finance officer Wendell Wardell…
About half of all likely voters would pick Mitt Romney for president if the 2012 presidential election were held today, while a little less than half would reelect President Obama, according to Gallup's daily tracking poll. In a new poll released Tuesday, Gallup found 50…
" I love scaring people" said B'Shawn Reed of Payette, a participant of the 2010 Scarywood Haunted Nights at Silverwood Theme Park near Athol. (SR file photo: Kathy Plonka) The Travel Channel will be filming portions of Scarywood throughout Silverwood Theme Park on Wednesday, Oct.…
The new group that consolidates Tea Party branches across Idaho, urges "yes" votes on the three 2011 education laws authored by Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna. "FACTS and LOVE of Idaho's kids caused us to endorse Yes Yes Yes to keep Education Modernization Laws!"…
NIC Trustee Mic Armon: Being that I am one of the so named “current board” that is supposedly endorsed by the local Democratic Party, I will respond to those concerns. First, at last week’s Democratic candidate forum which Judy Meyer, Gary Coffman, Dean Haagenson, Fritz…
Ben Botkin, now of the Bend (Ore.) Bulletin after a stop at the Twin Falls Times News, Facebooks: "A couple nights ago, I made pumpkin pie from scratch. I cut up the pumpkin, nuked it and blended it up like a professional chef. Not too…
A gull flies away with a beak full of salmon meat on Monday as fishermen at the Vernita Boat Launch discarded pieces while filleting fish on the shore. (AP Photo/The Tri-City Herald, Kai-Huei Yau) Question: Have you ever been pooped on by a seagull? I…
11:59 a.m. Caller from Miller Way/PF reports receiving bad checks. 11:35 a.m. Female complains of head/neck pain, bleeding legs after crashing van @ SH3/MP 97 (Fir Drive, near SH97 intersection). 11:33 a.m. Tree has fallen onto pickup @ e/b I-90/MP 39 (west of Cataldo Mission…
Monday Poll: Overwhelmingly, Hucks Nation believes a three-man ticket backed by the Kootenai County Reagan Republicans -- Ron Nilson, Paul Matthews and Todd Banducci -- has an agenda to significantly change North Idaho College. 101 of 133 respondents (75.94%) said the trio had an agenda.…
Staff Sgt. Kelly Rogne (front in Hal Bernton courtesy photo) walked down a dusty village road, rhythmically swinging a metal detector that resembled an oversized hockey stick. He led a column of more than 20 soldiers past deep-green fields of marijuana that surround this village…
Keegan Day, 4, plays on one of the swings at White Park in Post Falls during a trip Monday to the park with his father. The Post Falls City Council is expected to approve a Parks & Recreation facilities master plan when it meets tonight,…
Kathy Quinn, right, housekeeping supervisor for Benewah Medical Center moves a stained glass piece into the lobby of the new facility on Tuesday, Oct. 9. The grand opening is this Friday. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka) Gary Leva joked that employee productivity would drop with the…
Cindy tweets: "Watched back-to-back episodes of 'Dexter' and 'Walking Dead' last night before bed. Didn't sleep very well. Don't know why." Question: What do you do when you can't sleep?
Probably the last guy who should be promoting term limits for elected candidates is former Idaho Gov. Cecil Andrus. But that's what Andrus told the Tribune's Eric Barker. Andrus says it's necessary to break the cycle of incumbency that allows politicians to reward themselves with…
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.
