The Idaho Democrats have caucused. Bernie is king. In Idaho and Vermont. The Idaho GOP have closed primaried. And Ted Cruz is king. At least in Idaho and his own mind. When the smoke clears, it'll be The Donald versus The Hillary. And I'll have to decide if I can vote for either in the general election. The answer from this many months out is no.
North Idaho College softball outfielder/pinch runner Emily Aspden, left keeps pumping as catcher/ shortstop Lexi Courtney tries to free her boot from the mud in Memorial Field in Coeur d'Alene today. The team was preparing the field for games that will be played there this weekend.
The urban renewal "reform" bill that legislators like state Sen. Mary Souza, R-Coeur d'Alene, wants so badly may be amended to death. The current version, notes alarmed fellow legislators, is a far cry from the one recommended by an interim committee that included Souza and her House sidekick, Rep. Kathy Sims.
Scanner Traffic for Wednesday PM (12 items) + link to AM Scanner Traffic with 10 more items) includes two boys throwing rocks or mud off cars from Coeur d'Alene freeway overpass ...
The Cutline Contest today features a man who shut down a Seattle street Tuesday by climbing an 80-foot tree and staying there all day and night. He may still be up in the tree, despite efforts by law enforcement to talk him down. Tuesday Winner: Debbie.
Herb Huseland of Bay Views stayed up until midnight to welcome in his 78th year on our mortal coil. He doesn't know why he did so. But he expects that subsequent days will begin as usual without fanfare. At this point, he writes, he awakens to the realities of aging -- and is happy that he's escaped the Grim Reaper so long.
Sandy Patano, long-time Idaho Republican congressional aide, has prepared another scorecard featuring actual votes of North Idaho legislators. In her latest column & scorecard for the Coeur d'Alene Press, Sandy focuses on votes taken on key parts of Gov Otter's education budget and Real ID legislation.
When all else fails re: a controversial issue, legislators form committees, so they can tell their constituents that they did something. Such was the case today when the House voted 39-30 to pass a resolution to form an interim study committee to study the Medicaid gap. Minority Leader John Rusche said he action just kicked the can down the road.
Walking partner Greg Lee snapped photos of the statue of Chief Morris Antelope for Huckleberries Online today during our noon walk along the waterfront. (You can see a second photo of the statue by clicking on picture above.) This sculpture, by local artist Cheryl Metcalf, will be dedicated on Monday, April 4.
Jamie Pendleton, who sparked controversy with his “Date Grape Kool-Aid” drink at his downtown Spokane bar and violated federal trademark law for using Gonzaga University’s bulldog mascot in bar promotions, has admitted using a Post Falls man’s debit card to steal almost $1,000.
In a 5-Question interview (which stretched longer today), I interviewed Leslie Duncan, one of four candidates for the Kootenai County commissioner seat now held by Commissioner Dan Green. Duncan is the chairwoman of the aquifer protection district and an auxiliary member of the Union Gospel Mission.
Despite all the posturing by the non-dynamic Bonner County legislative duo of Reps. Heather Scott and Sage Dixon, the Joint Finance & Appropriations Committee backed funding for the Clagstone Meadows conservation easement 17-3. Sen. Shawn Keough, co-chair of the budget committee, was a voice of reason on the matter.
Among many bumpersnickers on the back of a dark-blue VW GT, with Bonner County plates (parked along the Dike Road, adjacent to North Idaho College this lunch hour: "Are you having phone sex, or do you always drive this way?" (Question: Judging from these bumpersnickers, what would you say the driver's view of life is?)
26 dead in Brussels and we gotta patrol Muslim neighborhoods. 26 dead in Newton and we do nothing because that's the price of freedom -- Sisyphus.
Chef Michelle Matsko paused as she walked to work Wednesday, gazed up from beneath her red umbrella and marveled: Nearly 24 hours later, a man was still perched near the top of an 80-foot-tall sequoia tree in the middle of a shopping district in downtown Seattle. “I’m really impressed,” she said.
SR columnist Doug Clark has an unusual bet with a former SR staffer who now columnizes for the Syracuse New Times re: the outcome of the Gonzaga-Syracuse game in the Sweet 16 Friday.
Reacting to Tuesday's deadly terror attacks in Brussels, Republican presidential candidate and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz proposed more resources for U.S. police to "patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized." During an interview with "CBS This Morning" Wednesday, Cruz doubled down on that...
Scanner Traffic for Wednesday AM (10 items & counting) includes male at Hayden shopping center who was injured in fall from ladder ...
Gov. Butch Otter has allowed HB 463, the minimum wage pre-emption bill, to become law without his signature, saying he was “philosophically torn” over the issue. “Self-determination and local control – like independence and self-reliance – are Idaho values,” Otter wrote in a letter to House Speaker Scottt Bedke.
If 2,140 excited Democrats can attend tedious caucuses in Kootenai County to show their support for Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton, why of why can't they focus their energy on local elections that, in many cases, matter more to the average local resident?
Authorities uncovered bomb material and a farewell message from a suspected suicide bomber Wednesday as details emerged of the Brussels attackers: two brothers who brought chaos and carnage to the city at the heart of European unity.
What does the Idaho Senate know that Reps. Vito Barbieri, Kathy Sims and Shannon McMillan don't. The Senate unanimously passed all bills involved in the education budget this AM. Barbieri & McMillan voted against all 7 bills. And Sims voted against 4 of them. Remember that when it comes time to vote in the May primaries.
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders returns to Spokane Thursday, one of three campaign stops he’ll make later this week for rallies in some of the state’s biggest venues. The Vermont senator will be at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum for an afternoon rally, his campaign announced Wednesday morning.
In Tuesday's poll, one-fifth of Hucks Nation said it would participate in a caucus for the Idaho Democratic Party Tuesday night. OTOH, 65% indicated that they wouldn't. Today's Poll: Do you agree with Ted Cruz that the U.S. must "empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized"?
The daily roundup of AM Headlines includes: Gonzaga will have hands full with Syracuse/SR, Library names managers for Rathdrum, Athol/Press, Repeal of Idaho's fee on hybrid cars may be dead/SR, UI's Petrino opens camp with focus on field not league/SR, Silverwood to hire 1,400 for summer, hold job fair Saturday/SR ...
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.
