I remember when the building first went up, a few years ago. With its elaborate brick exterior and rounded front wall, it stood out on a patch of asphalt between a Taco Time and a music store on Fourth Street in Coeur d’Alene, just north…
How’s our economy? Improving? Turning around? That’s the conventional wisdom – that here in Spokane and in North Idaho, we are crawling toward recovery. When the economists talk about next year, they tend to predict more of the same: slow growth. Media reports – even…
Golden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson, center, shoots against Los Angeles Clippers center DeAndre Jordan (6) as Clippers guard Willie Green watches during the first half of their NBA basketball game, Saturday, Jan. 5, in Los Angeles. Thompson, a former Washington State standout, discussed his…
Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o, right, speaks with host Katie Couric during an interview for "Katie," in New York. Te'o has told Katie Couric that he briefly lied about his online girlfriend after discovering she didn't exist, while maintaining that he had no part in…
Stebbijo (Gookin still votes against appointments): As a citizen of CdA -- I find this back and forth banter among our city leaders distasteful but necessary, otherwise some citizens might come to an undesirable conclusion. What constitutes official city business? What about the folks that…
Moscow's police chief says there are more questions than answers as to why an 18-year-old University of Idaho student apparently froze to death Sunday night underneath a rural bridge. "Why was he so disoriented?" David Duke asked Tuesday, one day after Latah County Search and…
Sheriff Wolfinger, you did not attend the 2nd Amendment rally in Cd’A, even though I understand you were invited to speak. Where were you? Do you not support the Constitution which you were sworn to uphold? Sheriffs all around the country are stating they will…
The Coeur d'Alene School District is now going over a fiscal cliff school systems nationwide began hitting at the end of 2011 when about $100 billion in federal stimulus funds for education started running out. District 271 has, until now, been able to pull away…
A young moose takes a break in a backyard north of Pocatello Monday as one of the family cats investigates the newcomer. The moose's mother was nowhere to be seen so the moose was possibly on it's own. You write the cutline. (AP/Idaho State Journal…
When he wasn't busy torturing Richard Nixon, political prankster Dick Tuck ran for the California Legislature. He lost, but not before coining the quintessential concession line: "The people have spoken. The bastards." Tuck was joking. Some Idaho legislators are not. They seem to think Idaho…
Year after year, Idaho gets slapped with an unwelcome designation: It’s one of the states where women earn the least compared to men. A recent study of the “gender wage gap” came from the National Women’s Law Center, and found the typical woman worker in…
OK, Republicans. You want Congress to adopt a budget and avoid yet another fiscal cliff-hanger with potentially catastrophic consequences, right? And same with you, Democrats and Independents. Of course, you're all on board. Then here's something maybe we can all agree on: No Budget, No…
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.
