A narrowly divided House voted 34-32 in favor of HB 556, legislation from Rep. Steven Harris, R-Boise, to require parent and student input in teacher evaluations – a bill that was opposed by all three major education stakeholder groups in Idaho, and a departure from…
Joker (RE: Mike Kennedy's voting Republican, too): "It sure seems that one of the big fears about Democrats defecting to redder pastures is that they'll be able to report back to the rest of us the inner workings of GOP. Going past the red door…
A May re-opening is back on track for McEuen Field, according to city of Coeur d'Alene spokesman Keith Erickson. Winter weather and a shortage of subcontractors had threatened the regularly scheduled deadline date, earlier this year. You can read more about it here. The photo…
The six House members from Kootenai County voted unanimously in favor of the guns on campus bill. Generally, however, legislators from North Idaho were split Thursday on the vote on Senate Bill 1254, which gained final legislative approval on a 5049 tally in the Idaho…
Russian President Vladimir Putin, second right, and Secretary General of the Russian Paralympic Committee Mikhail Terentyev, right, attend the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Paralympics, in Sochi, Russia, today. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service) Question: Which former USSR country will President Putin…
A thief stole the Moscow Special Olympics team’s sporting equipment last month, and with it their chance to compete at the State Winter Games on March 1. Fortunately, the Moscow community and others rallied around the team with donations and an outpouring of support that…
Idaho school districts – like Coeur d’Alene – that opted not to join a controversial statewide contract for high school WiFi services should qualify for state funding for their own WiFi networks, state lawmakers decided Friday. On a 15-5 vote, the Legislature’s joint budget committee…
Jimmy Farris, former congressional candidate and current Democratic candidate in House District 16 (Boise): I was asked recently why my campaign isn't super active on social media like some other campaigns. It's simple: No amount of "copy and paste" FB posts can make up for…
Believe it or not, today is National Middle Name Pride Day. The day falls either on March 10 or on Friday of the 1st full week in March. So what's National Middle Name Pride Day do. As the title says it's design to produce pride…
Dave LeMote uses an allen wrench to adjust hands on a stainless steel tower clock at Electric Time Company, Inc. in Medfield, Mass., earlier today. Most Americans will set their clocks 60 minutes forward before heading to bed Saturday night, but daylight saving time officially…
12:09 p.m. Blue Ford Mustang w/2 kids in it has run several stop signs in Camp Horn Road/Bayview area. 11:52 a.m. Allied Bonds is trying to locate female on possible warrant. She's renting a 2013 black Dodge Dart and may be staying at a Coeur…
Not only is Dan of the Community voting in the closed GOPrimary election this spring, but former Coeur d'Alene councilman Mike Kennedy is, too. Mike told Huckleberries moments ago that he voted in the GOPrimary two years ago, unaffiliated afterward, and plans to affiliate with…
Duane Rasmussen (responding to tongue-in-cheek comment by DFO re: the local GOP booking "Sheriff Mack" again as its Lincoln Dinner speaker): "I think he would show up for the opening of an envelope if he could find someone to pay his airlines fare to the…
Thursday Poll: Hucks Nation sez Gov. Butch Otter is the most vulnerable office holder of four elected officials listed in the poll. 80 of 152 respondents (52.63%) said Otter was most vulnerable of the four to an upset defeat in the primary or general elections.…
“I was never allowed to play with power tools before I worked here,” said Heather Coop, of Sandpoint, as she worked on the right wing of a Kodiak turboprop plane at Quest Aircraft Co. in Sandpoint on Tuesday. More here. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka) Idaho…
From the SR files of April 4, 2004: "Dan Gookin, who has been involved with the Libertarian Party in the past is now running for the office of Republican precinctman of his area of Coeur d'Alene. He is done with the reputation and lack of…
FlorineD (RE: DOTC switches sides to Republican): I affiliated as a Republican in February. It wasn't easy to check that box, but my opinions are no secret and my friends and even slight acquaintances know my stances and why I have mostly supported Democratic candidates…
Larry Clifford, 68, has had many unusual friends over the years: sea lions, dolphins, penguins and parrots. But his relationship with a cougar named Clark prompted him to write and publish an illustrated children’s book, “Would You Be My Friend?” The Spokane Valley resident and…
It appears my column on the light bulb phase out flipped a few switches in the Spokane area. The calls and emails that came in response to the column revealed readers on both sides of the lighting spectrum – those who embrace the government-mandated switch…
In his weekly Cheers & Jeers column, Opinion Writer Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune gives Jeers to ... to House Republicans who backed GOP floor leader Mike Moyle's plan to slice another $126 million from Idaho income taxes: Moyle's scheme cleared the House on…
In his weekly Cheers & Jeers column, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune gives Cheers to Senate Education Committee Chairman John Goedde, R-Coeur d'Alene: He wants to pull the plug on state school Superintendent Tom Luna's sweetheart deal with a corporate crony. Last…
Dan English, former Kootenai County Clerk and a registered democrat, turns in a form to change his affiliation, allowing him to vote in the republican primary, to clerical employee Grace Studer Thursday at the Kootenai County Elections Office in Coeur d’Alene. (Coeur d'Alene Press photo:…
The Idaho Falls Post Register has a report today about how Gov. Butch Otter ended up appearing in what eventually turned out to be a soft-core porn movie, years after he agreed to provide horses to a California movie crew working on a “low-budget horse…
Former Idaho state Sen. Evan Frasure, of Pocatello, says he is offering voters a non-Boise-area alternative for the office of Secretary of State. The current high school social studies teacher and former grocery store owner-operator, real estate broker and political campaign staffer is running now…
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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