I've been having problems with my police scanners lately. I don't think the desk one is programmed properly. And the backup that I stream from the computer is iffy. On some days, it's down more than it's up. That's why you get spotty Scanner Traffic reports occasionally. Today, all systems seem to be go. You still enjoy Scanner Traffic, right?
Miami Marlins' Ichiro Suzuki keeps his eye on a ball after tossing it in the air during spring training baseball practice today in Jupiter, Fla.
The Idaho Democratic Party announced late this afternoon that Secretary of State Lawerence Denney has agreed to make changes to 22 billboards posted statewide to advertise the upcoming March 8 GOP and Constitution Party presidential primary election, in response to the Dems’ complaint and threat of legal action.
Scanner Traffic for Wednesday PM (14 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic with 17 more items) includes 4 teen boys harassing users of park at 2355 W Prairie Ave/Hayden.
The Cutline Contest today features First Lady Michelle Obama striking a pose during a speech at the White House today. Tuesday Winner: No Comment.
Idaho Sen. Mary Souza has brought back her “parental rights” bill, with one change: An added paragraph defining “reasonable accommodation.” The bill still permits parents to withdraw their child from any program or activity to which they object.
In his Slice blog, Paul Turner recalls the Editorial Page editors who used to shout at callers who were angry with an opinion or something else on their page. I've encountered my share of odd newsroom types in my 46 years in the business, but no shouters or screamers stand out. How about you. Have you worked with some phone screamers?
At Post Falls, wrestlers on the defending state champions gather after practice to study the Bible together. Since midseason, six to eight Trojans have gathered for 20 to 30 minutes after practice for a Bible study. As many as half the 18 qualifiers for the State 5A tournament stay after as their schedules allow it.
Remember all the commotion over OTTERPAC? The committee’s first campaign finance report is online. Some highlights: The committee raised $44,490.43 from 19 donors in 2015, and spent $2,478.99. Of that, about half went to a graphic designer for the OTTERPAC logo (which Gov. Otter has said looks nothing like a rat) and half to printing literature.
The daily roundup of posts from the Huckleberries Online blogosphere: First Take: Trump/Randy Stapilus, Ted Cruz sent us a check/Fort Boise, Idaho's preference/Carlson Chronicles, The truth about a boring life/Faithful Geek, Just foto fun with point & shoot/Slight Detour, Looking ahead to Marmot's 1st Friday/7 Blog ...
At Blogfest 2016, I told the audience that one of the draws for me to continue blogging for The Spokesman-Review was the big election year that's facing us this year. We'll be electing partisans from the courthouse to the White House. Huckleberries Online wants to be a voice in the political process as we fill seats for another 2 to 4 years.
Coeur d'Alene schools Superintendent Matt Handelman will be one of the featured speakers later this afternoon for the fourth annual Coeur d'Alene Schools State of the District meeting, which is titled, "Highlighting Innovative Approaches in Education.” The event will be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the Coeur d'Alene Library Community Room.
The 41-day occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge cost taxpayers at least $3.3 million to cover the massive police response, a week of shuttered schools and a long list of supplies ranging from food to flashlight batteries, according to an Oregonian/OregonLive analysis of public and tribal budgets. The total will certainly grow.
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter has endorsed Ohio Gov. John Kasich for president and joined Kasich’s campaign as a national co-chair. "There's simply no substitute for executive experience,” Otter said in a statement. (Question: That should put Kasich over the top, right?)
Coeur d'Alene Mayor Steve Widmyer will deliver a State of the Bikes speech for the BikeCDA.com crowd at Calypso's Coffee & Creamery, 116 E Lakeside Ave, downtown Coeur d'Alene, on Saturday, March 12. The event will begin with a social gathering from 8:30 to 9 a.m., followed by the mayor's talk re: what will be happening with bikes in CdA in 2016.
Ex-Missoulian editor Sherry Devlin is suing the paper’s publisher and parent company, Lee Enterprises, for wrongful discharge re: her resignation last fall. Devlin alleges publisher Mark Heintzelman unfairly demoted her once he took control of the paper, cut her pay in half, and then filled the editor position with a younger, less qualified male.
Last night, the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee passed the resolution submitted by Precinct Committeemen Bjorn Handeen calling for the United States to extricate itself from the NATO alliance. The Central Committee voted 23-17 in favor of the resolution.
In Cambodia, 14 African giant puched rats are finding land mines in one of the world's most heavily mined countries through their incredible sense of smell. The land mines have been a scourge that has killed thousands of Cambodians.
Scanner Traffic for Wednesday AM (17 items) includes Kootenai County sheriff's deputy who checked on male walking around on Veterans Memorial Bridge, east of Coeur d'Alene.
... That the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee is leaning further to the right today, if that's possible, after the organization voted last night to fill five precinct committee(wo)man openings with candidates from the constitutional right side of the Tea Party aisle.
My 90YO mother banged herself up in a fall on Jan. 6. Since that time, Mrs. O and I and the families of my two Kootenai County siblings have formed a team of encouragers and gophers as she has worked her way back to health, first at Kootenai Health, then Post Falls Rehabilitation Hospital, then Life Care in Coeur d'Alene and now Pacifica.
As they work to recruit the next generation of hunters and anglers, Idaho officials are targeting food-conscious millennials who want to know where the steak they’re grilling comes from. Many millennials didn’t grow up in a traditional hunting or fishing household, but the idea of eating meat they harvested themselves appeals to them.
The daily roundup of AM Headlines features the unveiling of the official poster for Bloomsday 2016. Also: Idaho Records/Press, Panel kills dredge mining bill/EOBoise, Malheur occupation cost $3.3M/Outdoors, Prosecutor McHugh seeks re-election/Press, Sen Hill on 'instant racing': It's a no go/EOBoise, County has new land-use category/Press ...
In Tuesday's poll, a solid majority of Hucks Nation supports President Obama's attempt to close the controversial detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Today's Poll: Should convicted teen killer Eldon Gale Samuel III be sentenced to a mental health facility until he's 21?
Notching three in a row, Donald Trump decisively won Nevada’s Republican caucuses Tuesday as Marco Rubio bid to elbow out Ted Cruz for second place in an increasingly urgent effort to slam the brakes on the Trump juggernaut. (Question: Can anyone stop Trump now?)
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.
