I have survived the winter without a cold or the flu or a flu shot, until Tuesday. I still haven't had a cold or the flu. But I did get a flu shot during a routine follow-up check-up at Doc Chisholm's office. The nurse offered...
Protesters gather outside of Fox Theatre before a Republican presidential primary debate tonight in Detroit.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio will hold campaign rallies in Boise and Idaho Falls on Sunday, hitting Idaho Falls first at 5:30 p.m., and then Boise at 7:30 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public, but registration is required. Meanwhile, US Sen Ted Cruz of Texas will visit the Kootenai County Fairgrounds Saturday.
Executive Director Wayne Hoffman of the Idaho Freedom Foundation is in full attack mode today against state Rep. Kelley Packer, R-McCammon. Packer is the legislator who recently had the nerve to call Hoffman and his IFF staff bullies for the way they intimidate Republican legislators. You can hear a Hoffman attack robo-call vs Packer below.
The Cutline Contest today features the lunch prepared for first-graders at a Pennsylvania school in honor of the late Dr. Seuss: Green eggs and ham. Wednesday Winner: Khaliela Wright.
Scanner Traffic for Thursday PM (21 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic with 22 more items) ...
Wayne Hoffman of the Idaho Freedom Foundation dared Rocky Barker of the Idaho Statesman to hold the Idaho Conservation League to the same transparency standard as he does Hoffman's organization. Barker did. And he found the Conservation League to be way more transparent than the Idaho Freedom Foundation.
Daily roundup of posts from Huckleberries Online blogosphere includes news that Slate Creek is about to celebrate its 3rd anniversary in CdA. Plus: Call of the wild/Fort Boise, Throwback Thursday/Slight Detour, 1st Take: ISU med/Randy Stapilus, I don't have time for this/Simple Mind, Worst "Jeopardy answer ever/The Slice ...
A naked man who was arrested early Thursday inside the Sikh Temple of Spokane is facing a possible hate crime charge after he allegedly desecrated sacred items there. About $30,000 in damage was done to the interior of the temple at 1420 N. Barker Road, according to temple leaders.
4 men were arrested in Idaho Thursday after they were indicted on charges stemming from a 2014 armed standoff with federal officials rounding up cattle that belonged to rancher Cliven Bundy. Eric James Parker, 32, and Steve Arthur Stewart, 36, both of Hailey; O. Scott Drexler, 44, of Challis; and Todd Engel, 48, of Boundary County were jailed.
There is a question everyone is asking New York Times reporter Kim Barker: What’s it like to have Tina Fey play you in a movie? The Montana native, who spent 1995-98 as a reporter for The Spokesman-Review, just rolls with it. After all, that’s a question she would ask. “It’s really weird,” she says. “It’s surreal. It’s kind of awesome.”
"Sometimes a column strikes a nerve and my previous column on over-friendly customer service folks inquiring about my plans for the day seems to have jangled several," writes Cindy Hval. "More than a dozen readers wrote in response and many more commented via Facebook. It seemed everywhere I went last week, people wanted to weigh in."
In a Facebook post, Keith Boe of Post Falls says the thing he likes best about North Idaho is the type of police officer we have. He gives three examples of good police leaders and people: Post Falls Police Chief Scot Haug, Spirit Lake Police Chief Keith Hutcheson and Kootenai County Sheriff Ben Wolfinger & Shoshone County Sheriff Mitch Alexander.
Gov. Butch Otter has named Magistrate Scott Wayman of Coeur d’Alene to the First District judgeship that opened with the recent retirement of Judge Fred Gibler. Wayman has been a magistrate judge since 2000.
Yesterday, I posted a photo of SR photog buddy Jesse Tinsley holding the hand of his dying father. Today, Jesse Facebooks that his father has passed away: "He leaves behind his three children, many family members and thousands who benefited from knowing him in many different walks of life."
The state has been negotiating with two Idaho Education Network vendors since October — in hopes of settling more than $6 million in legal claims. But when the state absorbed another resounding defeat in court Tuesday, the negotiations got derailed.
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz will bring his presidential campaign to Coeur d’Alene on Saturday with a rally scheduled from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Idaho hosts its GOP presidential primary Tuesday. The campaign also will watch results Saturday from Republican caucuses in Kentucky, Louisiana, Kansas and Maine.
Okay, many of you have seen this Super Tuesday photograph of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie at a Palm Beach, Fla., ballroom, after introducing GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump. So here's the question: What do you think Chris Christie was thinking as he listened to Donald Trump speak?
Scanner Traffic for Thursday AM (22 items & counting) includes a fall at the pool area of The Coeur d'Alene Resort that injured a teen female ...
Mitt Romney called Donald J. Trump “a phony” and “a fraud” in an impassioned speech on Thursday in which he urged Republicans to rally around another candidate and warned that a Trump presidency could lead Americans into a dark abyss.
Coeur d'Alene state Sen. Mary Souza joined Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll in opposing a simple resolution recognizing community water fluoridation as a "significant public health achievement." The resolution died 16-18. Nuxoll's opposition isn't a surprise. But Souza doesn't understand the public health benefits of fluoride? Really?
The daily roundup of AM Headlines features a Lewiston teen who is able to see for the first time in years, thanks to high-tech equipment. Plus: Idaho Records/Press, Parking ordinances grow teeth/Press, Senate panel OKs public lands 'nuisance' bill/EOBoise, Budget panel rejects conservation easement bill/EOBoise + more ...
In our poll Wednesday, a plurality of Hucks Nation says the UIdaho should return its football team to the FCS Big Sky Conference after the decision by the Sun Belt to drop the team from conference play after the 2017 season. Today's Poll: Do you support Rep. Eric Redman's bill that would ban the recognition of Sharia/Islamic law in Idaho.
In an open letter to the editor, Chris Carlson of the Carlson Chronicles recommends who he considers to be the "perfect candidate" for nomination as the next Supreme Court justice: former Idaho AG Larry EchoHawk.
Rep. Eric Redman, R-Athol, introduced his first bill on Wednesday: a measure seeking to ban recognition of Sharia, or Islamic, law in Idaho courts. Redman distributed stacks of handouts to the Idaho House Ways and Means Committee, including a photo of a severed hand and printouts from websites critical of Islam.
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.
