You may have noticed that I've focused on local blogs and comments for my end-of-day wrapup this week. This includes looking for good material from the North Idaho/Friends blogs for wrapup commentary and possible questions (like Katrina's mention of bad days and Frum Helen Back's…
"A cold front is on the way. This is my 30th Hauser winter, including the winter of 78-79 when it was below zero for 6 weeks. This year I decided to change my thinking. Instead of planning where I'm going to move, I made a…
*Trish Gannon/Wading in the River Journal alerts Huckleberries Online that the new issue of the RJournal (Bonner/Boundary counties and northwestern Montana) is now online here and that she has written her first "Behind the Scenes at the River Journal" post here.*Huckleberries hears ... that the…
An unidentified Ohio State band member shows his spirit with his hair cut in the shape of an "O" at the BCS national championship football game in which Florida upset his Buckeyes 41-14 Monday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)Top Cutlines1. Either the percussion…
... contrary to what you may have read in Brand X this morning. Quoth: “There is no indictment and there have been no charges brought,” said Jean McNeil, spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Idaho. “A decision can’t be made about…
SRegional Editor Scott Maben, an Oregon transplant: Kootenai is pronounced KOO-tun-ee or KOO-tun-ay (as in hay), according to the Idaho Press Club pronounciation guide. But I've often heard it pronounced KOOT-NEE -- two syllables. Is the latter just my lazy ear, or has the pronounciation…
Katrina Swaim has discovered she's a superhero: Blunder Woman. Among the superpowers the young CdA mother lists on her Notes on a Napkin blog are: "the ability to fill two shopping carts in one trip and push them both out to the car without denting…
The Scooby-Doo balloon floats down Broadway in the rain during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York in this Nov. 23 file photo. Iwao Takamoto, who created Scooby-Doo, died Monday of heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Warner Bros. spokesman Gary Miereanu said. He…
Bearable Bob: Spokane occupies a barely visually acceptable transition zone of sparsely wooded ponderosa pine forests and an average river between the shockingly dull channelled scablands of Central Wa and the clearcut meadows of the weak Rocky Mt foothills of North Idaho. The entire area…
1. Rich and Todd still won't know where the courthouse restrooms are six months from now.2. Fort Apache, The Bronx3. Follow the leader4. Same-o, same-o5. Breath of fresh air
Full editorial hereIn Washington and Idaho, gun laws contain way too many loopholes. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence gives Washington's gun laws a D+, Idaho's an F+. And Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels has joined the call for tighter gun restrictions, such as the…
His family and attorney flank Spokane Deputy Joseph Mastel, top center, Monday, to hear his fate from a Civil Service Commission regarding his lewd behavior while on duty/Brian Plonka, Spokesman-Review.Issue: Deputy's firing overruled: Spokane detective who exposed self to woman wins appeal, unpaid leave/Jonathan Brunt,…
Cis: I can hardly wait to see what HBO today will do with the remark in Doug Clark's column about the Seattle clerk's remark about why Trader Joe's isn't coming to CDA ... Off to work, will check back to see what DFO and the…
Since World War II, who is your favorite ex-president? -- Lewiston Tribune*Franklin Roosevelt*Harry Truman*Dwight Eisenhower*John Kennedy*Lyndon Johnson*Richard Nixon*Gerald Ford*Jimmy Carter*Ronald Reagan*George H.W. Bush*Bill Clinton DFO: Reagan
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.