AM Headlines: Photographer Duane Rasmussen provides photos from University of Idaho commencement exercises + Idaho Records/Press Coeur d'Alene; hikers missing near Riggins/Press; 2 phony cancer charities banned from fundraising/EOBoise; The big guy just picked her up and carried her down the stairs to a waiting streatcher + more ...
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter, reacting this morning to yesterday’s special session of the Legislature, praised lawmakers for preserving the state’s child support enforcement system, which he noted serves one in four Idaho kids. “It’s fine to speculate and important to question issues surrounding the relationship…
The Idaho Legislature finally fixed the mess created by the House Judiciary & Rules Committee last month, by voting to approve child support enforcement legislation. All of this, no thanks to nine of 10 North Idaho (mis)representatives, Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll and acting senator Brent Regan. Betsy Russell files a final report on the vote ...
Seems Huckleberries reader David Gunter of Sandpoint shared my recent print column with his social media friends, tagging Rep. Heather Scott in the process. The column began w/Twin Falls Times-News edit naming Scott among fools thwarting child support legislation. It wasn't long before Dave's post was rejecting by Facebook for -- nudity...
It's easy to forget, with all the self-inflicted hubbub re: the special session of the Idaho Legislature, that today is voting day for Coeur d'Alene's $6M public safety bond, as well as a number of school trustee and highway district elections. Let's use this thread as an election day wild card to let everyone know how the turnout is going today...
In a love letter to the community, Lindy Moore, widow of fallen CPD Sgt. Greg Moore, writes: "I am blessed and humbled to live in this incredible, loving community. Greg's unexpected death is a tragedy I never imagined. Thank you to everyone who has courageously reached out, even if you were unsure of how to approach me or what to say ..."
ISU professor emeritus Leonard Hitchcock takes Wayne Hoffman and the Idaho Freedom Foundation to task for fomenting fear and paranoia among ideological legislators in the recent child support enforcement debacle.
In today's Spokesman-Review, SReporter Scott Maben spotlights Shahram Hadian, the ex-Muslim pastor who played a role in Idaho's child support enforcement controversy. The Spokane area pastor's warning about Islam as a rising menace in America has found fertile ground in Idaho.
The mother of a Marine killed when a military aircraft crashed in Hawaii says her son joined the Marine Corps because he wanted to “do something bigger and better.” Michele Barron, of Spokane Valley told The Associated Press that Joshua Barron loved to fly, loved...
The Idaho Statesman offered measured but harsh words for the Idaho GOP legislators who opted for ideology instead of Idaho's vulnerable families in voting against the child support enforcement bill in special session Monday. Nine of 10 North Idaho (mis)representatives & 2 North Idaho senators voted against the bill.
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.
