McGruber slightly criticizes the decision by former mayor Clay Larkin to run against incumbent Post Falls Council Joe Malloy. McGruber thinks Larkin should have run for the seat vacated by retiring Skip Hissong because the council needs Malloy's youthful demographic. Thoughts?
One of the fundamental back-to-school challenges is to get students to keep coming back each day of the school year. The Coeur d’Alene School District kicks off its new year today with a campaign to reduce chronic absenteeism and stress how regular attendance is essential for academic achievement.
SR columnist Doug Clark points his sharp pin (er, key strokes) at the Washington State University instructors, who have banned certain words in courses they teach at the school's Department of Critical Culture, Gender and Race studies. He calls them "uptight politically correct loons."
For former Kootenai County clerk Dan English, his race for a Coeur d'Alene City Council seat has a what-goes-around-comes-around" feel to it. You can read why in the lead item to my weekly Huckleberries print column that appeared Sunday in The Spokesman-Review.
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.
