Almost 40 years ago, in one of its biggest hits, Fleetwood Mac sang: “Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow. … Yesterday’s gone, yesterday’s gone.” Today, fans of the band – which hasn’t released any new music in the past decade – are still happily looking backward.…
Idaho is a one-party state caught between two elections. One election overwhelmingly repealed the Luna laws - the 2011 school overhaul package championed by state Superintendent Tom Luna that targeted teacher employment rights, imposed a clunky merit pay program and substituted technology for teaching. But…
Do not jump to conclusions. That's the predictable advice that the mainstream news media dispenses after any terrorist attack. Translation: Don't assume that this is yet another in a long line of hateful, cowardly attacks against innocent, unsuspecting civilians committed by Islamic extremists. But, while…
Heading out on a trail for a day or even a few hours is one of life’s simplest active pleasures. Craving fresh air, wildflowers, wildlife and healthy exercise? Taking a walk is the universal alternative whether you’re young or old, rich or poor. I look…
Jennifer Locke (Re: Letter: Beware the Coeur d'Alene Education Partnership/Coeur Group forum): You know as well as I do, that questions can be asked to make someone look bad on both sides and it doesn't help when you have to explain yourself in a 30…
In this Duane Rasmussen photo, a protester howls in support of wolves during a demonstration Saturday on Sherman Avenue, between Independence Point and the Coeur d'Alene Resort. You write the cutline. Friday Winner: PhotoGuy, w/7 likes -- "After the ball landed near the water hazard,…
Idaho schools will switch this fall to Common Core State Standards designed to raise student achievement, and the Coeur d’Alene School Board will take a closer look Monday at what that means for local schools. The board workshop was prompted by questions and concerns raised…
Now, we all know what Mayor Sandi Bloem meant at the annual Human Rights Banquet on Monday when she said she’d return to the feast in 2014, but maybe not in the same capacity. She had already decided not to seek re-election to a fourth…
We're in store for a sunny but windy weekend, which means I'll hit the garden for the first time this year. Plenty of stuff to trim, pull out and spruce up. And I've almost recovered from the sun burn I got on the Gulf Coast…
Caroline Masson, of Germany. watches her playing partner Brittany Linciome place her ball while waiting to putt on eight hole during the second round of the North Texas LPGA Shootout golf tournament on Friday at Los Colinas Country Club in Irving, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)…
Saeed Abedini is in a battle for his life. The 32-year-old has languished in Iran's notorious Evin Prison for more than 200 days, after being convicted of "threatening the national security of Iran" for his involvement in Christian home churches from 2000 to 2005. His…
5:59 p.m. Motorcyclist Richard L. Nagy, 63, of Moscow, was killed at 1:16 p.m. today when he rear-ended a van that had stopped on Highway 95 to make a left turn onto a side street in Worley, according to the Idaho Highway Patrol. The van…
Duane Rasmussen offers proof via this photo that your Huckleberry Hound still can handle pen and paper to cover a candidates forum cattle call. Here, I'm either pausing to listen to a speaker at the Coeur d'Alene School Board teachers forum at Mica Grange or…
An alligator crosses the 14th fairway during the first round of the PGA Tour Zurich Classic golf tournament at TPC Louisiana in Avondale, La., on Thursday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) OK, last call for votes for today's cutline contest. Just hit like/dislike…
Saw a news item a few weeks ago that could be exhibit A regarding what educators are calling a Common Core of Knowledge that a student graduating from any high school in the country should have mastered. The multi-millionaire superstar of the Los Angeles Lakers,…
Idaho ties for third in the nation in its percentage of diesel-fueled passenger vehicles, according to a new national report. Data compiled by R.L. Polk and Co. for the Diesel Technology Forum concluded Idaho has nearly 96,100 registered cars, SUVs, pickup trucks and vans that…
For years, the Coeur d’Alene School District had come under attack for its International Baccalaureate program, a world-renowned curriculum intended to teach critical thinking and global knowledge. Critics saw it as a waste of money at minimum, and a United Nations-driven socialist reeducation conspiracy at…
McEuen Field update: "Work on installing a retaining wall on the north side of Front Avenue continues. The wall should be completed in about a week. The purpose of the wall is to keep dirt away from the buildings on Front Avenue." You can find…
Jennifer Locke, a regular at Huckleberries Online, holds baby Isabella during the Coeur d'Alene School Board trustee forum at Mica Grange Thursday night. Jennifer was one of 7 or 8 people who asked questions of the six candidates. Coeur d'Alene Education Partnership, in conjunction with…
As Idahoans engage in a statewide conversation about K-12 public school improvement, I want to add another discussion point to the mix: The state should reexamine its participation in national education standards known as Common Core. I say this despite my deep respect and friendship…
Federal wildlife officials have drafted plans to lift protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48 states, a move that could end a decades-long recovery effort that has restored the animals but only in parts of their historic range. The draft U.S. Department of Interior…
George Jones, the definitive country singer of the last half-century, whose songs about heartbreak and hard drinking echoed his own life, died on Friday in Nashville. He was 81. His publicists, Webster & Associates, said he died at a hospital after being admitted there on…
The best debate-within-a-debate of the evening at the Mica Grange CSD trustee forum last night was the matchup between challenge Christa Hazel, who's seen making a point in this Duane Rasmussen photo, and Trustee Brent Regan, to her right. After listening to Christa speak, Huckleberries…
After the three-hour listening session wrapped up Thursday night, Richard Westerberg got another earful. Flanked by two staffers, the State Board of Education member was buttonholed by about a dozen opponents of Common Core, the academic standards on track to launch in Idaho classrooms this…
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.
