Three more sleeps until Blogfest 2016. This'll be the 12th Blogfest. And you know what? I was so busy running down information and previous verses by The Bard that I missed the actual blogiversary of Huckleberries Online. It was Tuesday, Feb. 16. Color me red-faced....
A komondor is shown in the ring during the working group competition at the 140th Westminster Kennel Club dog show Tuesday at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Fort Boise and the Idaho Democratic Party are complaining about the bulletin boards orders by Secretary of State Lawerence Denney that appears to favor the Idaho Republican Party primary for president March 8 -- a partisan primary paid for by Idaho residents, Republican and non-Republican alike.
Scanner Traffic for Wednesday PM (13 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic with 13 more items) includes 17YO male who called 911 to say that he's having strange reaction to marijuana he's smoking.
The Cutline Contest today features presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Steve King hunting in a corn field. Tuesday Winner: gitrdun.
In a Q-and-A video interview with Don Bradway of Redoubt News in Bonner County Saturday, Kootenai County sheriff's candidate John Green said he's 100% in favor of an "organized militia" in Idaho. Green said an organized state militia is the only way to prevent the federal government from what he sees as continuing to over reach its authority.
The daily roundup of posts from Huckleberries Blog Roll includes: Early yard work/Simple Mind, Outside beckons/Slight Detour, I'd vote for who?/Dogwalk Musings, Maybe Karnowski wants to stay put/Grip, Expect North Fork to be off-color/Outdoors, Now comes criminal counter suit/Fort Boise, Movie-going habit offers extra rewards/7 Blog ...
Every year, I drag out this post from Feb. 16, 2004 -- the first one that I ever made on Huckleberries Online. I still remember writing it. In fact, it took me awhile to actually hit the post button. I knew that once I publish this post that my life wouldn't be the same. It hasn't been.
In the beginning, Cis Gors of From A Simple Mind blog wrote a short description of Huckleberries Online (originally called No Holds Barred and the Hot Potatoes) that has stood the test of time. In short, Huckleberries is a cyber coffee shop. But Cis says it better below.
Kristi Milan announced her candidacy for Idaho State Senate District 4 at McEuen Park Donor Wall below the Veterans’ Flags today. Milan is running because she passionately believes that Idaho deserves better than the politicians currently representing Kootenai County residents in the Idaho State Legislature.
The investigation into a voicemail received by Rep. Matt Shea’s office has been closed after the Washington State Patrol determined it does not “rise to the criminal threat level.” Patrol investigators said the obscenity-laced call, which Shea had characterized as “a death threat,” only references an armed occupation of the office.
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz leads Donald Trump by two points in a national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Wednesday. Trump had held the top spot in the previous 31 consecutive national polls, according to RealClearPolitics, posting a double-digit lead in all but four.
University of Texas President Greg Fenves has approved rules that will allow concealed handgun license holders to bring their weapons into classrooms. State law requires public universities to allow concealed handguns in classrooms and buildings starting Aug. 1, but also gives campuses some leeway to carve out gun-free zones.
The Oregon House passed a bill Wednesday to shield the identity of the officer who killed standoff spokesman Robert "LaVoy" Finicum. In a bipartisan vote, the House approved legislation that would let a judge bar for 90 days the disclosure an officer's name who uses deadly force. It passed 55-3, and now heads to the Senate.
Writing for the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, Lee Rozen of the Editorial Board comments: "What a colossal waste of University of Idaho donors' hard-earned money. Of course, we speak of the Fan Zone, the temporary building outside the Kibbie Dome that turned out to be even more temporary than expected after the first strong Palouse breeze."
Culling wolf populations with aerial shooting in the "Lolo Zone" of the Clearwater is causing more debate in Idaho. Friends of the Clearwater and other groups are critical of the Idaho Fish & Game Department for shooting the wolves from helicopters the past four years, claiming as many as 50 wolves have been destroyed.
In 1994, as a law student and journalist for The Spokesman-Review, working in Idaho, Dean Miller took a 300-mile trip across Washington state with Justice Antonin Scalia. Miller, who is now a senior vice president/content at Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network, recalls that trip in his column below.
A proposal to increase supplemental literacy instruction for young, struggling readers is again on hold in committee — with possible changes or amendments forthcoming. Last week the House Education Committee voted 7-6 to hold House Bill 450 in committee until Thursday.
Scanner Traffic for Wednesday AM (13 items & counting) ...
A North Idaho man pleaded guilty today to killing a Spokane woman and dumping her body in a slough near Hauser Lake last year. Patrick Neil McGhee submitted an Alford plea to voluntary manslaughter in the June 7, 2015, death of Kelly Lynne Sallee, 55, a prostitute he paid to have sex with him at his rural, wooded home 3 miles north of the lake.
A drug deal gone bad has landed three young area adults in jail, two of whom were allegedly sprayed with pepper spray by the third one. Cody R. Smotherman, 22, of Rathdrum, Tamara D. Mobeck, 21 of Hauser Lake, and Cole E. Wyant, 23, of Coeur d'Alene were arrested on several drug-related charges. (Mug shots below.)
CJ, a German shorthaired pointer, the premier hunting dog of Europe, won Best of Show at the 140th Westminster Kennel Club dog show Tuesday at Madison Square Garden in New York. (Question: What type of dog(s) do you own?)
A new poll finds Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton losing to four top Republican presidential contenders, including Donald Trump, in hypothetical general election matchups. Clinton trails Republican primary front-runner Trump by a 45-43 margin head-to-head, according to a USA Today/Suffolk University poll released Wednesday.
The Bard of Sherman Avenue offers a rhyme for gardeners, such as your Huckleberry Hound, who spotted early-spring bulbs starting to break through the ground.
The House has passed legislation to remove the sales tax from Girl Scout cookies and Boy Scout food sales, passing HB 449 on a 35-31 vote. “Today, only two states tax Girl Scout cookies, Idaho and Hawaii,” Rep. Janet Trujillo, R-Idaho Falls, the bill’s sponsor, told the House. “Forty-eight other states see the benefit of these organizations."
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.
