Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz on Thursday said he does not have healthcare insurance because of ObamaCare. “I’ll tell you, you know who one of those millions of Americans is who’s lost their healthcare because of ObamaCare? That would be me,” Cruz said at a rally in Manchester, N.H. “I don’t have healthcare right now.”
In his weekly Cheers & Jeers column, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune offers Jeers to Washington state Rep. Mary Dye, R-Pomeroy. Dye? She's the legislator who five representatives of the Palouse Teen Council on Planned Parenthood about their virginity status.
The loading bay door rolls up inside the Community Action Partnership food bank warehouse in northwest Coeur d’Alene. Volunteers spring into action, unloading a van stuffed with donations from Albertsons, Safeway, Fred Meyer, Starbucks, Red Lobster and Davis Donuts. In come boxes of cantaloupe, yams,...
An informal legislative “working group” will take on a complicated and time-consuming effort: revamping Idaho’s public school funding formula. News of the working group broke late Thursday afternoon, the 11th day of the 2016 legislative session. But it’s unlikely the group will produce any legislation this year.
Idaho is moving ahead with plans for a fourth veterans’ home in North Idaho, but it likely will be seven to 10 years before it gets the funding approval from the Veterans Administration.
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.