Two anti-Islam speakers have reserved the Idaho Capitol auditorium and invited every Idaho legislator to a talk on refugee resettlement during the opening week of Idaho’s legislative session. (Question: Would you want your legislators to attend this forum?)
In Monday's poll, Prosecutor Barry McHugh received supermajority support from Hucks Nation for his decision to seek the death penalty in the May 5, 2015, slaying of Coeur d'Alene PD Sgt Greg Moore. Today's Poll: Today's Poll: Do you agree/disagree with the series of executive actions taken by President Obama to tighten gun laws?
AM Headlines for Tuesday includes United Airlines plane slide-off that temporarily shut the Spokane Airport today. Also: Body found in burning camper near Pinehurst/KXLY 4, Angler gets chilly reminder re: ice conditions/Outdoors, Plan to sterilize Idaho wild horse herd faces lawsuit/KTVB, Man gets 5 years for Wells Fargo bank robbery/Daily News.
President Obama announced a series of executive actions on guns Tuesday, focusing on the victims of gun violence in a White House event intended to prod Congress to take further action.
The Kootenai County Republican Central Committee will meet tonight to discuss a resolution calling for party unity. Only the secretive GOP leaders refused to circulate the resolution prior to the meeting, fearing it might fall into the hands of the media (read: Huckleberries). The local R's usually don't meet until the final Tuesday of the month.
In his Slice blog today, Paul Turner writes of former banker Wade Griffith who headed marketing for the First National Bank of North Idaho in Coeur d'Alene in the 1980s. Griffith told Turner that his bank played the "North vs South" card to the hilt.
Winning Coeur d'Alene City Council candidate Dan English is scheduled to be sworn in at tonight's council meeting. Incumbents Dan Gookin and Ron Edinger also will be sworn, but for new terms. The City Council meeting starts at 6 p.m. in the Coeur d'Alene Public Library community room.
Icicles are a common winter sight in Spokane, but this year’s crop of frozen daggers is the best in recent memory. A near-perfect series of weather conditions has allowed icicles to form not only on old houses where you would expect to find them but...
Spokane International Airport is temporarily closed after a United Airlines 737 slid off part of a runway in icy conditions around 6 a.m. No injuries have been reported. The flight was scheduled to depart for Denver at 5:38 a.m. before continuing on to Dallas.
In an editorial, the Idaho Press-Tribune of Nampa/Caldwell advises the liberals and ultra-conservatives who are howling re: Gov. Butch Otter's new political action committee: If you don't like Otter PAC, don't contribute.
As much as I like you guys, it was hard to come back this morning after a wonderful week in Portland and at the Oregon Coast. I missed the snow coming and going. And caught sunshine on the coast for 2 days. Mrs. O &...
Work began today to remove J.R. Simplot’s mansion from a hill west of Bogus Basin Road in Boise, said Ken Dey, spokesman for the Simplot family. Most of the work should be done in about 10 days, Dey said in a news release. A giant American flag atop the hill, recently removed, will be replaced once the project is done.
In 2016, I resolve to ...
Father-and-son ranchers convicted of setting fire to federal grazing land reported to prison Monday as the armed anti-government activists who have taken up their cause maintained the occupation of a remote Oregon wildlife preserve. Federal authorities made no immediate attempt to retake the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
The Cutline Contest today features a sparrow munching on a French fry outside Dick's Hamburgers in Spokane.
PM Scanner Traffic for Monday (17 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic with 14 more items) includes PFPD Swing Shift report for Sunday in which a PFPD officer narrowly missed a head-on crash while investigating an accident caused by ruts on an icy road ...
President Barack Obama is moving ahead on plans to require background checks for guns purchased from dealers even if they're bought online or at gun shows. The White House is coming out with a series of long-awaited executive steps aimed at curbing gun violence despite opposition in Congress to new gun laws.
Reporting for Hate Watch, of the Southern Poverty Law Center, former SR staffer Bill Morlin provides this photo and his report from two days coverage of the Burns, Ore., wildlife refuge standoff. Morlin reports: "Townsfolk who watched the rally said they didn’t see any Burns residents participating in the rally.
The holidays have come and gone swiftly, per usual. As we prepare to tackle 2016, The Bard of Sherman Avenue has some last thoughts about Christmas/New Year's in his first rhyme of the year.
State education funding has finally inched above pre-recession levels — but still, more school districts are relying on extra help from local taxpayers. This year, 94 of Idaho’s 115 school districts will collect supplemental property tax levies totaling more than $186.6 million. Kevin Richert/Idaho Education News provides the report.
Idaho’s population growth outpaced the national rate from mid-2014 to mid-2015, the Idaho Department of Labor reports today, though it’s still well below the 2 percent-plus rates from the mid-2000s. The latest U.S. Census data shows that Idaho’s population grew 1.2 percent during the time period, well ahead of the national rate of 0.8 percent.
In the daily roundup from the Huckleberries Online blog roll, Marianne Love/Slight Detour launches the new year with stunning photos from the New Year's Weekend ...
The Kootenai County Clerk's Office has introduce proposed changes to boundaries of 8 precincts -- Nos. 38, 39, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, and 51. The proposed changes would reduce the number of individuals in each precinct from 628 to 1,999 to 883 to 1,573.
In his Idaho Politics Weekly column, Chuck Malloy points out that the NRA should be pleased with a possible Hillary Clinton presidency. Guns flew off the shelves like toys during the Christmas holidays, as a result of gun-control statements made by President Obama. The same will occur in a Hillary Clinton presidency, Malloy says.
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.
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