A monument depicting musician Buddy Holly's glasses stands at the edge of a snowy field near the spot where the plane carrying Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson crashed near Clear Lake, Iowa, Friday. The three performers died in a plane crash Feb 3, 1959, after their final performance in Clear Lake.
Well, Mary & Kathy are headed to Boise to try to destroy urban renewal, the economic law that has revitalized the Coeur d'Alene waterfront. Vito, Steve, Eric, Shannon and Ron are flying south, too, looking for uber-con windmills to tilt. Heather is arming herself to the teeth with ideology. Get ready. The 2016 Legislature is ready to launch.
If I won the $800 Powerball lottery, I'd ...
A woman who was found unconscious near the Coeur d'Alene Resort and later died Wednesday has been identified as 72YO Lois May Falcon of St. Regis, Mont. The Kootenai County Coroner's Office has decided that her death was caused by hypothermia due to exposure. Falcon was able to get out of her vehicle after she drove it off the 3rd Street dock.
The Cutline Contest today featurs Russian President Vladimir Putin competing with a member of the Russian national judo team during a training session in Sochi, Russia. Thursday Winner: gitrdun.
Scanner Traffic for Friday PM (21 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic with 17 more items) ...
On the North Idaho Life Facebook site, Keith Boe of Post Falls posts: "Ahhhh... now that's a burger! The BIG IRON from the Dueling Irons Cafe in Post Falls. He grinds his own meat from brisket and chuck and was the tastiest burger meat I've ever had. If you open carry, you can get 10% your check as well. About $ 10 bucks if I remember."
In his column today, executive director Wayne Hoffman of the Idaho Freedom Foundation opposed plans announced by Gov. Butch Otter to spend $30 million to provide "gap" coverage for uninsured Idahoans. Hoffman said Otter should focus on tax relief rather than a government entitlement.
The St Vincent de Paul North Idaho Warming Center will be open tonight through Sunday night. This season the center has been open 35 nights so far this season, and it looks like (the region) is heading for another long cold stretch. The Post Falls Shelter located at 202 W. 7th Street in Post Falls.
The protesters who took over a federal building in southeast Oregon did not accept the local sheriff's offer for safe passage out of the state. On Facebook, the Harney County Sheriff's office announced: " ... the people on the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge made it clear that they have no intention of honoring the sheriff's request to leave."
President Obama vetoed legislation Friday that would have repealed the Affordable Care Act and stripped all federal funds from Planned Parenthood, writing in his veto message that the measure would “reverse the significant progress we have made in improving health care in America.”
The daily roundup of posts for Huckleberries Online blogs includes photo proof that eagles hang out on the downtown Coeur d'Alene waterfront as well as Higgens Point and Wolf Lodge Bay. Also: Trump/Bay Views, Beer with a twist/On Tap Do you ever worry about this?/Slice, First Take: Natural born/Randy Stapilus + more ...
In a survey last September of 385 just-graduated high school seniors from across the state, a third weren’t completely convinced that a college education would get them a high working wage. Moreover, just 17 percent of those surveyed said they strongly believed that an Idaho post-secondary education was a good value.
A fully furnished and decorated new home with custom artwork and sweeping views of Lake Coeur d’Alene is an unusual real estate listing. The 4,000-square-foot house on eight acres, which hits the market next week, will be familiar to those who watch “Blog Cabin,” an interactive home improvement show on DIY Network.
How come I can decorate the house for Christmas in a day, but it takes a solid week for me to undecorate? -- Cindy, via Facebook. Question: Do you have all your Christmas decorations down?
Cindy enjoys the concept of throwing old things away. But her husband, Derek, doesn't share those sentiments. In a recent trip to the basement, Cindy stubbed her toe on a fish tank and was showered with dust from a fiscus tree that her hubby won't throw out. (Question: Are you a tosser or a keeper?)
Two best friends have opened a coffee hut in Rathdrum that memorializes their two boyfriends who were killed in a crash in North Dakota 9 months ago. Alexis Blum and Marisa Randock commemorates their lost love ones in the headline of the coffee hut: Bro Latte.
... How the vote would go if someone in the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee proposed a resolution in support of the Bundy brothers and the rest of the insurrectionists at Malheur Wildlife Refuge HQ near Burns, Ore.? Anyone?
AM Scanner Traffic (17 items & counting) includes report of I-90 motorist brandishing gun at passing vehicles, near Coeur d'Alene.
Here's the regional stories making the news on this TGIF AM, including an Idaho Statesman story that tells of the University of Idaho weighing its options re: the FBS and possible return to the Big Sky Conference.
"Dysfunctional" is the best description for the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee, followed by "secretive" and "nontransparent," according to the Thursday Poll. Today's Poll: Did Congressman Raul Labrador step across a line when he sympathized with the sagebrush radicals who are occupying the Malheur Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Ore.
Timothy Egan of the New York times says the Gang That Couldn't Protest Straight holed up at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge is kindred spirits with Idaho Congressman Raul Labrador and other Far Right politicians who speak the same language.
John Ness, CEO of Kootenai Health, told lawmakers today that Idaho needs to recruit more physicians because the state has a doctor shortage: Many in North Idaho go to Spokane for lack of physician access, he said. “They are leaving our state because they can’t get access to physician practices. So we have an access problem."
The record Powerball jackpot just got bigger, climbing to $800 million as sales soared in the days leading up to the drawing. Gary Grief, executive director of the Texas Lottery, says officials with the Multi-State Lottery Association on Friday raised the estimated jackpot for Saturday night’s drawing from $700 million because of strong sales.
The Bard of Sherman Avenue just realized that 2016 is a leap year. So he composed a rhyme for all those celebrating a birthday on Feb. 29.
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.
