5:41 p.m. My day's almost done, so I'll let you in on a little secret. Tomorrow, I'll celebrate the first anniversary of this blog. A year ago, I began No Holds Barred/Hot Potatoes/Huckleberries Online with fear and tremblin'. Sometimes, the only thing that kept me…
re: Central Valley High policy that requires tenth-graders to read Bernard Malamud's book with sexual language and situations.Methinks the CV HS board needs that red light/green light system from Athol to shut them up. Of course students shouldn't be FORCED to read a specific text…
Issue: Yesterday, Huckleberries Online focused on overrated North Idaho experiences. Which launced an impromptu discussion on North Idaho experiences that live up to their billing (read comments) here.DFO: My fave? A bike ride to Sanders Beach near evening of a warm summer day, followed by…
The last time I covered Keith Gilbert was about 20 years ago when I was called out of the bath tub one night to report on his arrest in Post Falls on welfare charges. He spent five years in Alcatraz prison for plotting to blow…
*'The Natural' to stay in CV high schools: School board says it can be available to 10th-graders/Sara Leaming, SR -- I don't see a foul here, as long as students aren't forced to read the book. If students can opt for another book on the…
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.
