Huckleberries Online, it seems, is living rent free in the alleged minds of the local GOP brain trust. Seems local Republican leaders have been spooked by HucksOnline coverage of their proposed resolutions, prior to their monthly meeting. So they didn't circulate the proposed resolution this month until after the meeting started Tuesday. Seriously.
Despite all the hubbub caused by that clueless 9-8 vote that killed the Child Support bill in the House Judiciary & Rules Committee, Kootenai County legislators remain wary of it. Rep. Eric Redman, for example, said he will side with the 9 Republicans who voted against the bill unless it is amended. Mary Souza weighs in, too. Heaven help us.
In the Coeur d'Alene Press today, Editor Mike Patrick remembers a close encounter with the late Frank Henderson during his first days on the job. Henderson was upset re: a column that the editor had published. Many are reminiscing about the former newspaper columnist and long-time political & economic development leader who died Monday.
In an editorial today, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune discusses the need for national debt. He does so after meeting with U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo, who is taking up former U.S. senator Larry Craig's baton in fighting for a balanced budget. The country needed debt to survive the Depression of the 1930s, Marty opines.
In an attempt to crack down on bad behavior and suspicious people in the McEuen Park garage, the city General Services Committee has approved new rules to help police. The rules also affect other public parking areas. Have you ever witnessed inappropriate behavior or suspicious persons in the McEuen Park garage?
Gov. Butch Otter will hold a press conference this morning to announce what he plans to do about Idaho's potentially broken child support program. The governor is likely to announce whether or not he will call a special legislative session to deal with it. Huckleberries hears ... that the guv will call a special session to begin Monday, May 18.
They call themselves the People’s Oversight Committee – sometimes just “The People” – and they’re doing their darnedest to engineer a coup d’état in Stevens County. Using the style of legal reasoning and logical coherence that marks so many self-styled anti-government groups, from the Posse…
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.
