The daily roundup of AM Headlines includes: Man faces felony DUI charges/Press, Fatal deer disease nears Idaho/Daily News, Driver rescued from river side after long fall/SR, Trustees make decision on The Landings/Press, Eldon Samuel's mother: 'I couldn't believe it'/KHQ, Suspected shooter of Pastor Tim faces fed charge/KXLY ...
The usual suspects -- Reps. Sims, Scott & McMillan -- voted against at least 3 out of 4 bills involving Career Technical Education funding supported by Gov. Butch Otter. All bills passed the House overwhelmingly despite the trio's predictable resistance. Here's another scorecard published by the CdA Press showing how NI legislators voted.
In Monday's poll, a majority of Hucks Nation agrees with the minimum wage bill signed into law by California Gov. Jerry Brown that will increase the Golden State's minimum wage to $15 by 2023. Today's Poll: Do you agree with the sentence that will keep 16YO double killer Eldon Samuel in adult prison for at least 20 years?
In the "Throwing Good Money After Bad" Department, Gov. Butch Otter has approved an $8 million plan to try to clean up after the Idaho Education Network contract debacle. Otter signed Senate Bill 1428 — which earmarked $8 million that could be used to settle with vendors on the mothballed high school broadband system.
In his campaign Facebook page, Republican candidate John Green touts the endorsement by controversial Richard Mack, founder of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association. Green is running again for Kootenai County sheriff against incumbent Ben Wolfinger in a GOP primary contest.
Reality TV star "Dog the Bounty Hunter" says he helped kill a proposed law in Idaho regulating bounty hunters because it would have prevented the wearing of badges.
So how many of you picked Villanova to go all the way in your bracket. In one of the all-time great NCAA Tournament finals, Villanova and North Carolina traded three-point shots in the final 10 seconds to settle the evenly matched contest. Villanova struck last, as time expired, to win the tournament.
Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune writes: "Idaho regularly inspects its public school and college buildings to ensure they're safe from fires and other hazards. ... Yet Idaho has no systematic system for assessing school building safety and security vulnerabilities." That needs to change, Trillhaase comments.
Here's Becky Kramer's complete story on the sentencing of 16YO Eldon Gale Samuel III, of Coeur d'Alene, in the murders of his father and his younger brother. Samuel will spend at least 20 years in adult prison before he is eligible for release in the 2014 killings that took place in St. Vincent de Paul housing.
No person in the media has influenced me more than a man I met only once, in 1993, at a National Newspaper Columnists convention in Portland, Ore. -- Herb Caen, the late star columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. I grew up reading his column and studying his style from old newpapers that my Aunt Beatrice collected for me.
Major League Baseball launched Sunday. But the remainder of the games were scheduled today. Here, Cincinnati Reds center fielder Billy Hamilton catches a fly ball to center field by Philadelphia Phillies' Cedric Hunter in the ninth inning of their opening day game in Cincinnati today. Alas, Seattle lost its first opening day in 10 years today.
A 16-year-old Coeur d’Alene boy was sentenced to 20 years in adult prison on Monday for killing his 13-year-old autistic brother in a bloody attack inside a St. Vincent de Paul housing unit two years ago. Eldon Gale Samuel III was also sentenced to 10 years in prison for killing his father, an abusive alcoholic, which will be served concurrently.
Scanner Traffic for Monday PM (18 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic with 13 more items) includes possible evacuation of a school bus at I-90/9th Street overpass. Bus may have smoke coming from it.
The Cutline Contest features a supporter listening to GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump speak during a campaign event in La Crosse, Wis., today. Weekend Winner: MJHartid.
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled against a challenge to Texas' redistricting methods in a case that could have dramatically tilted elections nationwide in favor of Republican candidates.
The daily roundup of links from the HucksOnline blogosphere includes: The abortion swamp/Fort Boise, The bar gets lower/Simple Mind, Your weekly (pub) planner/On Tap, Here comes Boss Moyle/Better Idaho, State primary reflections/Randy Stapilus, Kickin' back and lovin' spring/Slight Detour, and Bottles of urine found behind wall/The Slice ...
If you want to know how extreme Idaho Freedom Foundation has become, all you have to do is look at its annual "Freedom Index." 51 of 105 lawmakers in one of the most conservative legislatures in the country received grades of F. Chuck Malloy of Idaho Politics Weekly analyzes the "Freedom Index" in this week's column.
Alaska Air Group, parent company of Seattle-based Alaska Airlines, agreed Sunday to purchase San Francisco-based carrier Virgin America for approximately $2.6 billion. If the deal survives regulatory scrutiny, it will make Alaska Airlines a much bigger player, adding Virgin America’s 60 Airbus A320 jets to Alaska’s mainline fleet of 147 Boeing 737s
Do you wonder why Idaho Republican legislators waste so much of our taxpayer dollars pursuing unconstitutional laws that they pass? They want Republican AG Lawrence Wasden to be a yes man for their efforts. And he refuses to be. Now, Gov. Butch Otter has joined his legislative counterparts in trying to reign Wasden in.
Environmentalists are challenging U.S. Forest Service approval of a $500 million copper and silver mine in northwest Montana, citing concerns from state officials that it could drain surrounding waterways and potentially harm a species of trout protected under federal law.
A measure to ban refugee centers in Twin Falls County may not have enough signatures to get on the ballot. Rick Martin, the head of the Committee to End the CSI Refugee Center and the main organizer of the initiative effort, spent the weekend gathering signature sheets and stopped at the county clerk’s office early Monday morning to drop them off.
California and New York are about to get a raise. California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed into law a measure Monday that will hike the state's minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2023 — making the Golden State the second in the nation to raise its wage floor that high.
Scanner Traffic for Monday AM (13 items & counting) includes 2 vehicle fires ...
In the weekend poll, a plurality of Hucks Nation said Wayne Hoffman's uber-conservative Idaho Freedom Foundation is losing its influence. Only 12.75% considers IFF to be "very influential." Today's Poll: Today's Poll: California Gov. Brown has signed a minimum wage of $15/hour into law (by 2023). Is that too much?
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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