Parting Shot -- 10.12.16 11
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally earlier today in Lakeland, Fla.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 12, 2016
Hump Day Wild Card -- 10.12.16 87
I really don't want you to answer this question, but I wonder what Donald Trump would have to do to finally lose the support of such ideological diehards as Congressman Raul Labrador and the Idaho Republican Party? He brags about fondling women. Now, we hear that he walked in on Miss USA contestants while they were dressing.
PM Scanner Traffic -- 10.12.16
Scanner Traffic for Wednesday PM (17 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic w/18 more items) includes EMT response to unconscious male on Tubbs Hill ...
Cutline Contest -- Time2Vote 10
The Cutline Contest today features an actor dressed up like the "Grim Reaper" to warn pedestrians on cellphones in Pittsburgh, Pa., re: what might happen while they're not paying attention. Tuesday Cutline Contest winner: CindyH.
NPG: Idaho County GOP dumps Crapo 2
"The Idaho County Republican Central Committee say they have pulled their support for the reelection of Sen. Mike Crapo," according to NPG of Idaho Falls. "Their decision comes after the senator announced that he would no longer support Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump." NPG provides letter that committee sent to Crapo.
Searchers can't find missing hunter 1
Edward A Hempel, a 63YO hunter from Post Falls, remains missing in the Bernard Peak area despite an intensive search by KCSO Search & Rescue volunteers, air support from three agencies, dogs and others. Hempel was last seen at 1 p.m. Monday by a hunting partner who dropped him off in rugged mountainous terrain near Bernard Peak.
Idaho prez race features 37 write-ins 1
The Idaho presidential ballot will feature 8 candidates, including those from the Republican, Democratic and Constitutional parties. However, Idahoans can also write-in the name of 1 of 37 official write-in candidates and have their vote counted. County Clerk Jim Brannon has provided Huckleberries with a list of those legit write-ins ...
Blogos: Always 1st time for everything
The daily roundup of links from HucksOnline social media includes: This & that/Simple Mind, Fight to the fresh/On Tap, 2024 Summer Olympics/Bay Views, Stories that make you smile stand out/Grip, Poet laureate Marshall explains it all/7 Blog, UI students design snowmobile hut/Outdoors, AdWatch: Labrador launches TV ad/Eye on Boise ...
You can vote for Pedro, but ... 10
You can write-in Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck or Pedro for U.S. president, in protest of the two main candidates running, and your ballot will still count. Huckleberries just got off the phone with County Clerk Jim Brannon re: writing in a fictitious name for president. I'm flirting with the idea of writing in "Pedro" of "Napoleon Dynamite" fame.
Thoreson: A dad worth remembering
In her Main Street column for the Coeur d'Alene Press, Kerri Thoreson remembers her father, the late property tax activist Ron Rankin, who died on this day 12 years ago. Kerri's father and I go back to the 1980s. Sometimes, we disagreed strongly with each other. Sometimes, we shared laughs. He was no shrinking violet.
Bond: Goodbye, Facebook? 11
In a Wallace Street Journal comment, David Bond writes: "Facebook is a handy tool, but this apparent expression of favoritism towards a particular candidate or political party has put them over the line. I am going to give myself a few days to decide whether or not to close my account. I am leaning towards bagging it."
Spokane skywalk coming down 1
One of downtown Spokane’s first skywalks will be torn down and replaced with something more sleek and modern. The skywalk over Howard Street at Main Avenue connects the Bennett Block building with the former Bon Marche/Macy’s building. Mike Prager/SR reports.
Poll: Crapo stand won't hurt him 2
In the HucksOnline poll Tuesday, a supermajority of Hucks Nation said that the decision by U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo to withdraw his support from presidential nominee Donald Trump won't hurt him much, if at all, politically. Today's Poll: Do you like traffic roundabouts?
AM Scanner Traffic -- 10.12.16 1
Scanner Traffic for Wednesday AM (18 items & counting) ...
Fatal crash traumatizes witness 3
The fatal crash involving a KCSDeputy and a pedestrian in Hayden early Saturday morning has traumatized a witness. KHQ's Katie Chen interviews witness Taylor Hull. The link below leads you to a brief 911 recording of Deputy Andrew Nye moments after the fatal crash and KHQ video of the interview with Hull.
AM Headlines -- 10.12.16 3
SR photog colleague Kathy Plonka spotted this frozen black-eyed susan near Hauser Lake this morning.
Cindy picks a movie -- or not 27
On her Facebook wall, Cindy describes a familial scene that's all too familiar. The scene begins with Cindy declaring that she's never seen "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Within seconds, two members of her family offer spoilers. And she doesn't want to view it. Q: Is there a classic movie that you've never seen?
Blast from Past: Elect Bob Dole 6
While looking through past presidential endorsements of the Spokesman-Review, my former Editorial Board mate Gary Crooks found the 1996 endorsement of Republican Bob Dole. Which I wrote for the paper. You can find it below. I would still support a quality GOP presidential candidate like Dole. Too bad the R's didn't put one forward this year.
63YO Post Falls hunter missing
The Kootenai County Sheriff's Office reports that 63-year-old Post Falls resident Edward A. Hempel has gone missing somewhere in the Bernard Peak area of northeast Kootenai County. That area is described as thickly treed and mountainous. The Coeur d'Alene Press reports.
Trump walked in on naked contestants 15
The Washington Post is reporting that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump bragged to Howard Stern in 2005 that he walked in on Miss USA pageant contestants while they were dressing. In an interview of "The Howard Stern Show," Trump said that it was one of the special perks to owning the pageant.
Cannon Beach: Shark attacks surfer 3
I'm publishing this AP story because, if you're like me, you spend some time each year on the Oregon Coast. We stayed several days at Manzanita, near Cannon Beach, last December. So here's the thing. There's sharks in them thar waters. This story of a shark attack north of Cannon Beach Monday reminds us of that.
Vestal: Few R's have Crapo's courage 5
In his column this morning, Shawn Vestal/SR holds up U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo as an example of a politician who has broken with his party by denouncing GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. While Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Raul Labrador continue to support "the clownish would-be despot," Vestal says, Crapo stands above them.
D's apologize for misleading info
In a press release to the Coeur d'Alene Press, the Kootenai County Democratic Club apologized for sending out misleading information about a planned candidates' forum. The Democrats sent out the release, saying that a debate would occurred last Friday even though one GOP candidate had declined their invitation & the other didn't know about it.
Foe rips Labrador for Trump support 1
Democratic challenger James Piotrowski ripped U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador for Labrador's continuing support of GOP prez candidate Donald Trump: "It clearly demonstrates that Rep. Labrador continues to value political ideology over basic humanity or the duty to provide leadership for all the people of Idaho.”
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.