After a long but relatively satisfying week of covering the Idaho primaries and their aftermath, I'm looking forward to down time this weekend. I have two thirds of the garden planted. But there's enough to do in the yard to fill a day, weather permitting. If it rains, I want to catch up on reading on my covered front porch.
Performers rehearse for the First World Conference on Tourism for Development in Beijing, China, this week. State leaders and tourism ministers ministers from various countries are expected to attend the four-day conference with the theme "Tourism for Peace and Development."
As you recall, board Chairman Brent Regan of Idaho Freedom Foundation posted a strange online comment after House District 3 candidate Peter Riggs' close loss in the GOP primary, inferring that politics had broken up the marriage of Peter's parents. Now, Peter's mother, Rachel Caughran Riggs, responds.
I will conduct a 5 Questions interview with state Rep. Luke Malek, R-Coeur d'Alene, later this AM (around 10:45-11). Now that he has escaped the clutches of the IFF/Redoubt RINO beast, it'll be interesting to see how Luke plans to proceed. As always, you can use this Wild Card to start your own thread ...
Scanner Traffic for Friday PM (20 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic with 11 more items) includes vehicle-motorcycle crash near St. Vinny's Thrift Store on Govt Way ...
The Cutline Contest today features Britain Prime Minister David Cameron and a former Brit culture secretary trying to recreate the famous Beatles album cover during a vist to Abbey Road. Thursday Winner (tie): JohnA & DFO.
Bill Dentzer of the Idaho Statesman takes on the claim by Wayne Hoffman of Idaho Freedom Foundation that Idaho conservatives had their best night in years. In "5 takeaways: Idaho's upside-down primary election results," Dentzer writes: ""It’s hard not to read a repudiation of the Freedom Foundationers in the results."
Alan Young, an Emmy Award-winning comic actor best remembered for playing Wilbur, the human sidekick and wonky owner of a talking palomino horse in the 1960s television sitcom “Mister Ed,” died Thursday at the Motion Picture & Television Home in Woodland Hills, Calif. He was 96.
In his column, Randy Stapilus points to the two legislative GOP outcomes in Coeur d'Alene this week -- Rep Luke Malek's win and Rep Kathy Sims loss -- as proof that mainstream Republicans are taking back lost ground in the Coeur d'Alene area and elsewhere.
The daily roundup of posts from Huckleberries Online social media includes a photo of your Huckleberry Hound on the set of the Christian Youth Theatre-North Idaho production of "Shrek." I have 4 tickets to give away to a performance(s) of "Shrek" over the next 2 weekends. But I need to come up with a contest to do so first. Anyone have an idea?
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Friday called for an end to gun-free zones during a speech to the National Rifle Association (NRA), saying it is not wise to “pre-announce that you’re defenseless." “These terrible tragedies keep occurring in one place: Gun-free zones,” Paul told the crowd of gun rights supporters.
After years of looking for the perfect spot for a larger performance venue in Coeur d’Alene, The Modern Theater believes it has found it. The nonprofit company proposes building a 300-seat, $12M theater with adjoining retail space in the Midtown neighborhood just north of Capone’s Pub & Grill.
State Sen. Mary Souza, R-Coeur d'Alene, is standing at a cross-roads. She can continue to straddle the mainstream/Tea Party divide. Or she can become an effective, decent replacement for former state Sen. John Goedde.
In the Idaho Statesman, former Republican attorney general David Leroy comments that the Obama administration's transgender guidelines for bathroom use in public schools may be the mandate that elects Republican Donald Trump to the presidency. He calls the mandate "nothing less than a national disaster."
Someone once told teacher Chris Naccarato he’d never get an astronaut to visit his students at Priest River Elementary School. He didn’t get one. He got more than 20 astronauts – and one cosmonaut – to travel to the small town west of Sandpoint in his 25 years of teaching there. Scott Maben/Kathy Plonka, SR, cover latest visit of the astronauts.
Scanner Traffic for Friday AM (11 items & counting) includes male who fell from ladder at Carlin Bay & suffering compound fracture of ankle.
Responding to widespread media reports that the Idaho Freedom Foundation/Action was a Big Loser Tuesday, IFF director Wayne Hoffman comments that conservatives did win. Hoffman: "Tuesday night wasn’t a disappointment, though. Far from it. Any suggestion to the contrary on the part of the media is journalistic malpractice."
State Sen. Shawn Keough and state Rep. Luke Malek weren't the only successful Republican campaigners targeted for defeat Tuesday. Kelley Packer, R-McCammon, who incurred the wrath and robo-calls of the organization in Bannock County, also easily survived the slings and arrows of the uber-con organization.
In an 5 Questions interview this AM, Rep. Luke Malek discusses the attack by uber-conservatives on him during the recently concluded GOP primary campaign. Also, he says that the Idaho Freedom Foundation didn't have clout with the Legislature before the primary and certainly won't have any now.
Thursday Poll: Hucks Online says the goal by ultra-conservative hardliners in closing the Idaho GOP primary has backfired. Two-thirds says more Idaho Democrats are crossing over today to vote in the Republican primary than before when the primaries were open. 125 of 188 respondents (66.49%)…
Someone named Adam the Woo (http://adamthewoo.com) provides a YouTube video of Coeur d'Alene's abandoned Wild Waters Park. The place is a mess now. Adam the Woo tries to visualize what Wild Waters was like back in its hey day. See Adam the Woo's video below.
In a recent editorial, the Lewiston Tribune said that the lopsided loss of Commissioner Jim Chmelik in Idaho County may be a nail in the coffin of the land-transfer movement in the Gem State. Now, Rocky Barker of the Idaho Statesman pulls back the curtain and shows some of the forces aligned against Chmelik.
In his Friday editorial, Opinion Editor Gary Crooks of The Spokesman Review comments: "No doubt there is an American Redoubt festering in North Idaho, but there’s considerable doubt that Idaho voters will go along with its retrograde agenda."
If you feel the need for speed, the USA World Championship Marathon Jet Boat Races just may be your ticket this weekend and next week. Jet boats, which can reach speeds of 150 mph, will be on the St. Joe River Saturday and Sunday and on the Coeur d'Alene River Tuesday and Wednesday.
Mayor Steve Widmyer and city officials launched a fundraiser to generate enough money to build a water feature at McEuen Park to honor Sgt. Greg Moore, who was killed in the line of duty last year. “It really is an important day to be here,” Widmyer said during a press conference announcing his “#$27 for K27” memorial fundraiser at McEuen Park.
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.
