So I was sitting in an airport lounge recently, eating salad and drinking wine and listening to the two doctors seated behind me talk about how many cadavers each of their students would need for their coming demonstrations. It's a question I've asked myself many…
In a different political era, Idaho legislators quit talking about poverty in the abstract and experienced it first-hand. Then, it was Sen. Cecil Ingram, R-Boise, and 30 of his fellow lawmakers who tried living on food stamps. For Ingram, it was an eye-opener. He found…
Conventional wisdom holds that no one from the United States could be elected pope, that the superpower has more than enough worldly influence without an American in the seat of St. Peter. But after Pope Benedict XVI’s extraordinary abdication, church analysts are wondering whether old…
Bloggers, commenters and blurkers didn't have to be asked twice to fill their plates at Blogfest 2013 at Steve Widmyer's Fort Ground Grill in the historic Fortgrounds area Saturday. Bent's BBQ and Steve's side dishes were worth the price of admission. Toss in the camaraderie…
Five more deer were found shot dead Thursday and Friday in Dalton Gardens, bringing the total to eight deer fatally shot by poachers in the last week. Three of the deer were does that were carrying fawns, and a small caliber weapon was used in…
Trustee Brent Regan of the Coeur d’Alene School District has performed proper contrition for his insensitive anti-Obama joke at a recent legislative forum. Tony Stewart told Huckleberries that his Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations is satisfied with Regan’s apology to district students, parents,…
A Hayden resident believes his rights were violated when he was disqualified from obtaining a concealed weapons permit because of a felony charge from over 40 years ago. "Why are you trying to stop me from buying a gun, just because I'm charged with a…
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.
