In three days, on Friday, we'll have the launch of the new Hucks Online Super Sub, Taryn Thompson. She's rarin' to go here. As an Athol girl, I suspect, she will be able to handle any trolls that might surface while this Huckleberry Hound is away for one of my infrequent days off. What advice would you give Taryn re: piloting the USS Huckleberry?
Baltimore Orioles first baseman Chris Davis stands near a pile of baseballs during a spring training baseball workout in Sarasota, Fla., Tuesday.
The Gonzaga Bulldogs have been in this spot before, needing a West Coast Conference tournament title to advance to their 18th consecutive March Madness appearance. The Zags' season hasn't gone as planned, from the moment Przemik Karnowski went down with a back injury early in the winter. (Q: Will Gonzaga make the NCAA tourney this year?)
U.S. Sens. Jim Risch and Mike Crapo issued statements in response to President Barack Obama’s plan to close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility and transfer foreign terrorists to the United States. Both U.S. senators from Idaho adamantly oppose the closure. Crapo notes that it's illegal to bring terrorists onto U.S. soil.
The Cutline Contest today features model Kendall Jenner posing with her new wax figure at Madame Tussauds in London. Monday Winner: gitrdun.
Scanner Traffic for Tuesday PM (16 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic with 9 more items) includes male who lost consciousness in Rathdrum Wells Fargo Bank drive-through.
A resolution that will be considered when the Kootenai County GOTP Central Committee meets for its monthly meeting tonight calls for US withdrawal from NATO. The resolution says that US servicemen are being called on to defend Islamic Turkey against others, an entanglement that the founders warned this country about.
Russ Fulcher, a former Tea Party gubernatorial candidate and chairman of the Idaho Freedom Foundation, speaks to a crowd of 400 to 800 at the Idaho Second Amendment Alliance rally in Boise Saturday. Wayne Hoffman of the Idaho Freedom Alliance and Greg Pruett of the Idaho Second Amendment Alliance also spoke.
Reality check: the #idleg allowed one hour of testimony for Medicaid expansion and two hours for deregulation of dredge mining. #priorities -- @BetterIdaho.
During my State of the Blog speech at Blogfest 2016 Saturday, I mentioned that Huckleberries Online set a blog record of almost 2.8 million page-views, easily topping the previous best of the year before by around 150,000 page-views. Huckleberries Online is out to a better start this year.
In the daily roundup of posts from Huckleberries Online blogosphere, Bayview Herb explains why he missed Blogfest 2016. Also: Birds of a feather/Fort Boise The perfect storm/Simple Mind, Weekly (brew pub) planner/On Tap, Tuesday Twitterdeedum/Slight Detour, Happy Bookiversary/Cindy's All Write, Why I missed Blogfest 2016/Bay Views ...
The Panhandle Health District is hosting a dinner in which it hopes to provide tools for parents to have "the talk" with their teen children -- you know, about the birds and the bees. (Question: Have you had "the talk" with your teens? Did someone have "the talk" with you back in your formative years?)
In his latest Wallace Street Journal column, David Bond argues for a Native American justice to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
Cindy Hval's husband, Derek, reacts to something at Blogfest 2016. Tongue firmly cheeked, Cindy says she knows why Derek looks stunned (see below). But you're welcome to guess what Derek's thinking in this photo, too.
Gonzaga University tied with the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma as the top-ranked Peace Corps volunteer-producing schools in the nation among small colleges and universities. It’s the fourth year Gonzaga has achieved the top spot in the ranking. Both Gonzaga and UPS had 18 undergraduate alumni volunteering in the Peace Corps last year.
The lobby of Kootenai Health’s new east addition will be dedicated in honor of a philanthropist and former North Idaho resident who donated $4.4 million to the hospital’s foundation. Douglas Hugh McCall, who worked in the oil industry and died in 2004, left the money to the Kootenai Health Foundation.
Rep. Melissa Wintrow’s “Right to Try” bill, which would let terminally ill patients use investigational drugs at their own risk, cleared the House Health & Welfare Committee today on an 8-2 vote, and now heads to the full House. The only “no” votes came from…
Scanner Traffic for Tuesday AM (9 items & counting) ...
Legislation creating a $5 million startup funding account to be tapped if eastern Idaho voters agree to create a new community college in Idaho Falls has passed the House on a 62-6 vote. “There has been a feasibility study already which produced positive results,” Rep. Wendy Horman, R-Idaho Falls, told the House.
The daughter of a militia member was shot and wounded Sunday after a local meeting of the III% Idaho group. The 12-year-old girl, whose name was not released, was taken by helicopter to a hospital for treatment after the shooting at the Rupert Gun Range, reported the Twin Falls Times-News.
Marc Johnson of The Johnson Post comments that no one in his or her wildest dreams could ever imagine that a frontrunner for a major party nominee would criticize the Pope -- and get away with it. But that's what Donald Trump did on Feb. 18, 2016. Johnson believes that the national GOP died that day. What do you think?
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have come to a consensus decision to not have hearings or a vote on a Supreme Court nominee in 2016. "We believe the American people need to decide who is going to make this appointment rather than a lame-duck president," Senate Republican Whip John Cornyn (Texas) told reporters.
Republicans on Tuesday blasted President Obama's plan to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility moments after he proposed it, calling it a "menu of options" and a "press release" instead of a plan. Bottom line? The Republican Congress has declared Obama's plans to close Gitmo DOA (dead on arrival). Do you support the president on this issue?
A rewritten literacy bill is gaining momentum during a crucial stage of the legislative session. On Tuesday, the House Education Committee voted unanimously to advance House Bill 526, to provide intensive supplemental literacy instruction for kindergarten through third-grade students who are reading below grade level.
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.
