For those keeping score at home, Mrs. O & I renewed our vows before a gathering of family and friends at the Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center (great venue) in Post Falls Thursday night. I enjoyed quite a vacay, helping host extended family that grew...
Jaid Dickey finishes her soda as her grandfather, Richard Leonard, readies her fishing line at Reflection Pond in Sarg Hubbard Park, Monday in Yakima, Wash. (Gordon King/Yakima Herald-Republic via AP)
I was surprised at our 40th anniversary bash at The JACC when several women told me that their husbands would never renew their wedding vows at a special event like the one we had. Would you?
PM Scanner Traffic for Monday (22 items & counting + AM Scanner Traffic link) includes grass fire in Spirit Lake area that has grown from 2 acres to 10-12 acres, as firefighters struggle to contain it.
Our Cutline Contest resumes today with winger JessieJames Decker helping launch the 75th anniversary of Dairy Queen in New York.
Sen. Jim Risch will donate $500 to charity after campaign finance documents revealed the president of an organization classified as a white supremacist group by the Southern Poverty Law Center made a campaign contribution to Risch. Council of Conservative Citizens president Earl Holt made the…
Huckleberries Online blogosphere: Beer and wine will be available at the Harbor House on McEuen Field, at the foot of the western entrance to Tubbs Hill, on or about Independence Day. Also: Death of respect/Bay Views, Soul searching time/Arch Druid, Kustra: Undisputed champion/Carlson Chronicles + more.
Gov. Butch Otter’s pick to be the next director of the state Department of Environmental Quality was the public affairs director for Agrium, a fertilizer company that’s been involved in multiple hazardous materials incidents and is currently being monitored by the EPA, from 2011 until…
The death investigation of the male who died after being detained by a loss prevention officer from Super One foods (Thursday) is still on-going at this time. The loss prevention officer has not been charged with a crime. The deceased male is identified as Andrew…
On her Facebook wall, photographer Kerri Thoreson posts: "Byron Smith has created a river rock landscape that's breathtaking to see. At Corbin Park, down river from the Post Falls dam the river level is running low providing the perfect exposed canvas for this stacked rock...
I read JohnA's post that long-time Huckleberries commenter Randy Myers died sometime during my vacation. But I haven't located any obituary information about him. I have contacted a property management company that handled his apartment on Coeur d'Alene Avenue. But a representative could do little…
At Old School North Idaho, Keva Wolfe wonders: "How do you describe a Huckleberry to those poor poor people who have never seen nor tasted one?" Anyone?
During a podcast taped last week, just days after the mass killings at an African-American church in Charleston, S.C., President Obama used the N-word to make a point. The use of the racial slure generated intense debate on social media. Obama said afterward that he didn't regret using the word. Question: What do you think about this controversy?
Gonorrhea is on the rise in Idaho’s five northern counties and Panhandle Health District is reminding residents about the importance of getting tested. 32 cases of gonorrhea have been reported so far this year, compared to 17 cases during January-May of 2014.
The city of Coeur d'Alene is considering a request by the Ironman organization to move the annual event in Lake City from the last Sunday in June back to some time in August. The Downtown Association and Coeur d'Alene Resort support that move. How about you?
I have juggled a busy personal and professional life for most of my adult life. But I don't know how to actually juggle things in the air -- like bean bags, balls, clubs and rings. Cindy tells us how juggling at a retirement village has many health benefits for senior citizens including an improvement in concentration, dexterity and reaction time.
White House hopeful Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) will call for South Carolina to remove the Confederate flag from the State House grounds in the wake of the shooting deaths of nine people at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C. A source familiar with Graham's…
AM Scanner Traffic for Monday (15 items & counting) includes local police catching possible car thief after BOSS hit on H95 spots stolen Washington vehicle.
In an Idaho Reporter article, Dustin Hurst writes that left-leaning groups are waging class war on political foes around the country. Here in Idaho, Hurst claims, the leftists are bankrolling Better Idaho, "a nonprofit dedicated to smearing conservatives, advancing a radical environmental agenda and forwarding big-government policies." Thoughts?
In the vacation poll, a strong majority of Hucks Nation supported that 3-2 vote by North Idaho College trustees to increase tuition rather than property taxes to balance the 2015-16 budget. Today's Poll (borrowing from the Coeur d'Alene Press): What do you think of the decision by the local urban renewal district to change its name to Ignite CdA?
In this Sunday column, the SR's Doug Clark provided a tongue-in-cheek quiz that enables readers to decide how much exposure they have had to the Rachel Dolezal story. I read a few things about Dolezal on vacay. But didn't get sucked into the Dolezal 24/7/365 vortex. How about you? How closely did you follow the Dolezal story?
An Associated Press photo, showing a gun pointed at GOPresidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has angered some conservatives. Question: Should the AP have published this photo?
There’s more on the Idaho State Police’s non-existent investigation into Corrections Corp. of America, with the Idaho Statesman reporting that records it obtained under the Idaho Public Records Law show the Idaho Board of Correction believed ISP had conducted a criminal investigation and found no…
About 130 skateboarders took over Sherman Avenue Sunday morning to strut their stuff in an official "bombing" of downtown Coeur d'Alene. They were celebrating Go Skateboarding Day 2015. Question: Do you have a positive/negative view of skateboarders?
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.
