State Reps. Kathy Sims and Donald Cheatham will be discussing the special session on child support legislation at noon Friday at the Panhandle Pachyderm Club. Sims and Cheatham were two of the five House Judiciary and Rules Committee members who still voted against the bill during the regular session and the special session.
Health insurance companies offering plans on Idaho’s state insurance exchange are proposing big increases in premiums for 2016, the AP reports, citing increased medical costs and changes in utilization over the past year. Among them: Blue Cross of Idaho is proposing average increases of nearly…
In a Lewiston Tribune editorial today, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase comments on the recent revelation that Utah state representative Ken Ivory is not all he seems to be. Ivory is an advocate of the fringe notion that Western states can sue the federal government into relinquishing public lands -- an idea that is helping line Ivory's pockets.
The man killed in a Hayden car crash Sunday was the father of a girl featured in the Coeur d'Alene Press for raising $200 for the family of fallen Coeur d'Alene Police Department Sgt. Greg Moore.
More than 100 people attended the workshop Wednesday evening, which took place in the community room at the Coeur d'Alene Public Library. Mayor Steve Widmyer said the purpose of the workshop was to gather input from the community on a collective vision for improvements to the city's eastern gateway.
The owners of the Coeur d’Alene Resort want the city the vacate part of a street next to the hotel so they can build a new tower on the spot. Hagadone Hospitality Co. has applied to have a portion of Front Avenue vacated between the...
In the Coeur d'Alene Press, Hagadone Hospitality representatives Jerry Jaeger and John Barlow explain why the Hagadone company is moving forward with plans for a second resort tower on the waterfront.
The Idaho Supreme Court issued an order (Wednesday) evening setting a briefing schedule in Coeur d’Alene Tribe v. Denney, the instant racing challenge. Idaho Secretary of State Lawerence Denney, who is represented by Attorney General Lawrence Wasden, is ordered to file his response to the…
Well, it was an entertaining day on Huckleberries Online today, courtesy of Councilman Steve Adams and the breaking news from the Hagadone Corp. Sure gonna miss Adams when Dan of the City puts him out to pasture. He's pure blog gold. Yeah, I know that's very immature of me to say so. But I'm looking at the silver lining here.
Animal rescue crews help a bull that was trapped inside a well in Fairburn, Ga., today. The 1,500 pound bull named Boy fell through rotten wood that was covering the well on his property south of Atlanta. Crews used a backhoe to dig a bigger…
Former Kootenai County Commissioner Todd Tondee was fired Wednesday from his job in the county’s Grants Management Office. Tondee confirmed the firing. He said he was “raked over the coals” in multiple negative stories in The Press from the time he was hired in February,…
Scanner Traffic Wednesday afternoon (23 items & counting + AM Scanner Traffic link) includes 25-30YO male protester creating ruckus outside of Coeur d'Alene High ...
Huckleberries Online goes all the way to Tokyo to provide fodder for today's Cutline Contest, featuring Japan Self-Defense Forces' honor guard preparing to welcome a dignitary. Tuesday Winner -- Meme13.
Audio: I've saved this blast from the past (March 19, 2013, to be specific) for a rainy day. It's not raining. But it is overcast. And Councilman Steve Adams is on my mind, for some reason. This is the recording of Adams calling 911 to say he wanted to place City Attorney Mike Gridley under citizens arrest. A sound track has been added to tape.
Here's a roundup of Eye on Boise posts by Betsy Russell re: the legal challenge by the Coeur d'Alene Tribe to Gov. Otter's pocket veto of the instant racing repeal bill.
In the Huckleberries Online blogosphere today: Adult AAD/Simple Mind; Quotation marks follies/Slice; FIFA's Blatter relieved/Fort Boise; No-Li goes bronze down under/On Tap; M's are making suckers out of us/A Grip on Sports; Panhandle Forests assessing road systems/Outdoors + Marianne Love's outdoor photos.
The exact quote that anti-fed-dollar-everything Coeur d'Alene Councilman Steve Adams used to put your Huckleberry Hound in his place.
The first of two public meeting, staged by the city of Coeur d'Alene to gain public input into revitalization of East Sherman Ave, is scheduled from 5 to 7 this evening at the Coeur d'Alene Library.
For those keeping score at home, Councilman Steve Adams (pictured), after a 9-minute defense of his anti-fed-dollars stand, again was the lone Coeur d'Alene council member who voted not to accept a federal grant to hire 3 new Coeur d'Alene Police officer. Fortunately, there were...
Joggers run past a painted mural along the BeltLine earlier today in Atlanta. Today marks National Running Day, celebrated annually on the first Wednesday in June. National Running Day was created in 2009 by some of the county's biggest running clubs and organizations to draw...
"For most of us, classic literature, music and art is enriching even when it hurts, angers or saddens. It grows us intellectually, culturally and, yes, morally because it expands our understanding of and empathy for the human condition. Now is a good time to extend…
Doug Johnson and Tom Richards are the new owners of the Snake Pit in Enaville. Tom emailed Huckleberries this morning to tell of his plans for the restaurant that Joe and Rose Mary Peak owned and operated for decades.
Here's the short CdA Public RV Channel 19 version of Councilman Adams zeroing in on my Huckleberries column during a 9-minute defense of his regular votes against the city accepting federal money for projects, purchases and hiring of police officers. He calls Your Huckleberry Hound "very immature" for using the word "goofy" to describe his stand.
In the video below, obtained from Coeur d'Alene Public TV Channel 19, Councilman Steve Adams defends his routine votes against the city of Coeur d'Alene accepting federal funding. And dismisses my comments in my Sunday Huckleberries column that his rigid ideological stand against federal dollars for more officers, in particular, is goofy.
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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