Several slash and garbage piles that were left behind on a tract of land formerly used to house a trespassing transient population are still just sitting on the property. The previously densely wooded area in Coeur d'Alene adjacent to Target and Ross was thinned out last year by Spokane developer Harlan Douglass, the property owner.
Idaho’s faith healing exemption from prosecution for child deaths or medical neglect hit the national airwaves this morning, as NBC’s “Today Show” featured the story of Mariah Walton, a 20-year-old Idaho woman who suffers from lifelong disabilities because her parents didn’t seek medical treatment when she was an infant for a heart problem.
During an interview on Friday, I asked former Idaho Gov. Cecil Andrus – elected governor four times as a Democrat – what he thinks of the current infighting with the Idaho GOP. “Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of people,” Andrus responded with a grin.
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.