Betsy Russell/Eye on Boise is live-blogging testimony from the first day of hearings for "Add the Words" legislation this morning. The hearing began at 8 a.m. (MDT) and will conclude in a few minutes. The hearing will resume again at 5 (MDT) this afternoon and run through 8 p.m. You can find a link to Betsy's blog below.
Seattle Seahawks' Doug Baldwin answers a question at a news conference for NFL Super Bowl XLIX football game today in Phoenix. The Seahawks play the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLIX on Sunday. (AP Photo/Matt York)
All 12 police officers who fired their weapons in a freeway shootout with a heavily armed suspect in Post Falls last summer were justified in their actions, a North Idaho prosecutor has found. Six Coeur d’Alene police officers, three Post Falls police officers, two Kootenai…
The second half of the Add the Words hearing began at 5 o'clock (MDT) and will continue until 8 p.m. There appears to be black-and-white lines among those who have testified for and against legislation calling for anti-bias laws to apply to gays. Betsy Russell live-blogs tonight's session. Links below.
A researcher demonstrates how to extract venom from a snake to vacationing school children during a special daily presentation that runs through summer break in Sao Paulo, Brazil. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Andre Penner) Weekend Winner -- ThomG57, with 12 likes: "My wife told...
3 people were hurt, including a 3YO child when a GMC driven by Devin Bischoff, 25, of Rathdrum, veered off U.S. 95/MP 422.8 (near Kidd Island Road) and rolled, at 12:28 p.m. Bischoff and passenger Sheena Freeman, 27, of Rathdrum, were ejected from the vehicle. Raysyn Bischoff, 3, of Rathdrum, was restrained but not in a car seat. The crash closed t
Earlier today, HucksOnline posted a mailer in which state Rep. Eric Redman extolled state sovereignty over federal Constitution, urged state takeover of federal lands, and elimination of the federal government from all state agencies and programs. Now, in an op-ed article, constituent Reid Harlocker of Hayden responds to Redman's radicalism.
Nearly 500 people flocked to Idaho’s state Capitol on Monday to give heartfelt testimony both for and against a proposed law to ban discrimination against gays and transgender people in housing, employment and public accommodations. The hearing ran from 8-11:30 in the morning, and was...
The sun burns the fog away from the Coeur d'Alene Resort this morning. (Photo: Don Sausser)
A North Idaho state senator is questioning why the Post Falls Police Department is investigating the “instant racing” machines in use at the Greyhound Park and Event Center in Post Falls. Sen. Bob Nonini, R-Coeur d’Alene, said today he thinks it’s fitting for the Idaho...
Betsy reports that state Sen. Bob Nonini and House Education Chairman Reed DeMourdaunt are forming a STEM (science, technology, engineering & math) caucus to promote those disciplines in school. Nonini? I'm looking for a catch here. Nonini supporting public education? What will they think of next?
In Huffington Post Taste, Lee Breslouer reports on "The most iconic restaurant in every state (and DC)." Idaho winner? Hudson Hamburgers (circa 1907), of course. Breslouer writes: "Burgers and fries. That's the all-American meal. And you can't get it at Hudson's, because they don't serve...
Post Falls Police Department report: Creepy cuss-tomer at G.W. Hunters earns all-expenses-paid, one-way trip to the cross-bar hotel after threatening to kill waitress, if her service wasn't good enough.
A goofy resolution to be considered by the Kootenai County GOP Central Committee is based on the premise that government is passing all kinds of unconstitutional laws and, as a result of the proliferation of bad laws, all of us are likely to become felons. The resolution wants jurors to be more informed. Link to resolution below.
Don't tell Stickman, but city street workers are busy toppling trees along the Lake Coeur d'Alene side of the Dike Road this afternoon, from about North Idaho College's sand volleyball courts to the eastern edge of the campus. The road is blocked. I counted about 18 trees...
Update: Huckleberries hears ... that county commissioners met at 9:30 this morning to discuss reinstatement of airport manager Greg Delevan and immediately went into executive session. Only staff lawyers and commissioners are allowed in the meeting. Delavan remained in the waiting room. Several people from the North West Property Owners Alliance a
You can read all 13 posts about the Add the Words hearing this morning live-blogged this morning by Betsy Russell of the SR's Eye on Boise blog. The hearing will resume at 5 this afternoon and continue until 8 tonight. 30 people have testified so far -- 13 in favor of the bill, 17 against.
Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson walks to the team bus as he arrives at Sky Harbor Airport for NFL Super Bowl XLIX football game Sunday in Phoenix. The Seahawks play the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLIX next Sunday. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Tom Tingle)
AM Scanner Traffic (12 current items): Work week begins with a 20ish thief swiping a chainsaw from a shed on Bonnell Road.
In a news release, Congressman Raul Labrador reports that he has helped form the House Freedom Caucus from members of the House Republican Conference. The goal of the caucus is to "advance an agenda of limited, constitutional government in Congress." The caucus' founding members are…
AM Headlines features UIdaho looking for ways to boost enrollment + the plus side of Obamacare in Idaho + an update on flu deaths in Idaho (they're spiking) + another link to Betsy Russell's live-blogging of the Add the Words hearing.
The Bard of Sherman Avenue awoke to fog, like the rest of us in the Coeur d'Alene area this morning. Unlike most of us, he found the silver lining to our foggy morning.
Rep. Eric Redman, R-Spirit Lake, seems to share the same view of the federal gummint as most other legislators from Kootenai County. In a mailer to constituents this weekend, Redman declared that Idaho and the Idaho Constitution is sovereign over federal government. That Idaho needs...
Weekend Poll: Hucks Nation doesn't support the continued flirtation between Gov. Butch Otter and the U.S. Department of Energy re: nuclear waste. Otter, of course, has given the OK to receive more spent fuel from the federal government. However, 144 of 190 respondents to the...
"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor…
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.
