The 16% of us who bothered to cast ballots in the school elections yesterday should take a bow. The elections were wildly success, ensuring continued adequate funding for our local schools (no thanks to the Idaho Legislature). As for the rest of you ... pffffffft....
The Bulldogs celebrate their 91-75 WCC Championship men's title game over BYU in the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nev., Tuesday. (SR photo: Colin Mulvany)
Amazingly, former U.S. senator Larry Craig is appealing a trial judge's decision that he misused campaign funds to pay personal legal expenses in his infamous toe-tapping incident at a Minneapolis airport bathroom. In their appeal, Craig's attorneys are even citing the admonishment of the officer who arrested him ...
PM Scanner Traffic (25 items) includes an illegal burn in Rathdrum & 3 boys trying to break into a home on the Rathdrum Prairie ...
President Barack Obama gets a kiss upon his arrival on Air Force One at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta Tuesday before speaking at Georgia Tech about an executive action he signed that clamps down on student loan providers. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/David Tulis) Tuesday...
From Idaho Press-Tribune Facebook wall: "Our editorial board's solution to the brouhaha over the Hindu prayer last week in the Senate chambers of the Idaho Legislature? Simple. Stop having public prayers at a body that makes laws for everyone -- they're inappropriate. Read today's editorial,…
Authorities have arrested a 15-year-old suspect in connection with a reported infant abduction attempt Sunday in Sprague. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office said the teen lives in Sprague and was identified through the use of surveillance video, witness interviews and DNA evidence. The Sheriff’s Office…
Can you graduate from an Idaho high school. AP (via KREM2) has provided a sample test of 10 questions that Idaho high school seniors would have to answer to graduate. I scored 10 or 10. I can't imagine anyone who would fail to answer at least 7 of these questions. Go ahead and try the link below ...
In today's blog roundup, SportsLink provides links re: Gonzaga's big win last night+7 Blog recommends celebrating coming summer with beets+Fort Boise comments on "instant racing" controversy+Idaho Reports warns that 2015 Legislature may go longer than expected ...
Adriana Janovich recommends year-round use for the underappreciated cousin of the newly fashionable brussel sprouts -- not just St. Patrick's Day. Cabbage, she writes, is "round, cheap and readily available. Question: Any cabbage lovers out there?
Columnist Chris Carlson is appalled at Gov. Butch Otter's lack of understanding of the primary purpose of the nuclear waste agreement negotiated for the state with the Department of Energy and the Navy in 1995 by then Gov. Phil Batt. Carlson contends that Otter is risking Idaho's future with his N-waste flirtation ...
CDAindependent says Kootenai County has substandard representation at the legislative level because entrenched Far Right ideologues are organized and dedicated to keeping our embarrassing representatives in place. So what does it take to get moderates & majority Independents involved in pushing back?
U.S. Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, participated in the Senate Foreign Relations discussion re: ISIS with Secretary of State John Kerry today. The hearing triggered a heated discussion on foreign policy between Kerry and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida.
Seven months after saying no, West Ada School District voters approved a plan that will allow the state’s largest district to build three new schools and remodel a fourth. For Bonneville School District officials, Tuesday’s election brought one more defeat — this one by a…
BLT, the blog for lifestyle & travel, explains how each state got its nickname, including Idaho, the "Gem State."
A letter from Senate Republicans to Iran’s leadership has divided the GOP and forced it to play defense, endangering the party’s chances of passing a new round of sanctions that would kill President Obama’s nuclear talks with Tehran. The talks have long divided Democrats, and…
An Idaho senator says his rewritten proposal to allow people to use oil extracted from cannabis plants still faces opposition from the governor's office, despite being reworded as one of the strictest proposals in the country. DFO: This bill makes sense to me. Why would the governor's office oppose it?
Cindy Hval, my blog baby-sitter and soon-to-be best-selling author, will be reading from her much touted "War Bonds: Love Stories from the Greatest Generation" at 7 p.m. today at the Coeur d'Alene Library. You'd better come early to get a seat because she's been attracting crowds ...
Columnist Shawn Vestal/SR wonders if the nasty online posts of Lesley Haskell affect the decision making of her husband, Spokane County Prosecutor Larry Haskell. Wonders Vestal: "Can individuals whom the prosecutor’s wife has mocked online expect a vigorous effort from the prosecutor’s office if they are victims of a crime?"
Today's AM Scanner Traffic (16 items) includes a white-and-tan pitbull w/a bandana running loose in Coeur d'Alene ...
John Blanchette analyzes Gonzaga's strong effort against BYU in the WCC tournament championship game. Also, in a separate link below, he introduces you to an SR sports bracketology exercise, featuring the best 16 teams in recent Gonzaga history. You can help to name the best Gonzaga team ever ...
Irascible David Bond of the Wallace Street Journal wonders why the news media ignored the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp, while providing extensive coverage to the 50th anniversary of the march on Selma, Ala.
In AM Headlines today, a Sandpoint counselor who lost 2 sons to suicide participates in suicide prevention discussion at Gonzaga U+Coeur d'Alene experiences record temp+new version of teacher 'career ladder' in works+planning for Rathdrum Mountain rec area begins ...
Don't mess with Hucks Nation, 2/3s of which bear arms, including 24.18% who say they have permits to carry concealed weapons. Today's Poll: Do you have a better/worse opinion of US Sens. Crapo & Risch for joining 46 other GOP senators in sending letter to Iran?
In an editorial in the Twin Falls Times News, Opinion Editor Jon Alexander criticizes U.S. Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch for joining 46 other GOP senators in sending a "patronizing letter to the Iranian government" -- and for essentially saying the U.S. doesn't honor its commitments ...
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.
