It's been pretty lively today on the blog, with the advent of the "Dissent in Coeur d'Alene -- The Video!!!" (Don Morgan's exclamation points, not mine.) We'll be talking about this again Wednesday b/c I wrote my print columnette about the attack video. Also, the…
Photoshop: Idaho EscapeeIdaho Escapee/Atmospheric Ruminations used this HBO photo post as part of a post about remembrances when things were cheaper here.*I look back over the nearly forty years I have struggled with clinical depression, and one damning reality stands out: The harder I try…
Kathy Plonka/Spokesman-Review... that Duane Hagadone is launching his ha-huge sailboat at the Yacht Club on Blackwell Island, even as we speak. A crane was necessary, of course. According to a Berry Picker, it's as out of place on Lake Coeur d'Alene as his 30,000sf house…
Although this was posted on YouTube a year ago, it shows some cool footage of gymnasts flipping off the rocks at Tubbs Hill (including one great belly flop). This short video came to mind because my brother Ray called again this afternoon from North Idaho…
Which Harry Potter character dies next?The latest Harry Potter movie is out, with the last book in the series, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" to follow later this month. J.K. Rowling has hinted at the demise of one or more of the series' main…
Spokesman-Review PhotoIn 1999, Dick Haugen, then with KVNI, asks 9-year-old Heather Hendry if she snuck into her brothers' rooms to collect loose change for Hayden Lake Elementary's donation of $515 in loose change to the 1999 Child Abuse Prevention Campaign Thursday morning. D.F. Oliveria: How…
Pete Erickson/Bend BulletinBalloons suspend Kent Couch in a lawn chair as he floats in the skies near Bend, Ore., Saturday, July 7, 2007. Couch, on his way to Idaho, carried a global positioning system device, a two-way radio, a digital camcorder and a cell phone.…
Item: Study: Women drawn to men with muscles/Julie Steenhuysen, ReutersMore Info: Muscular young men are likely to have more sex partners than their less-chiseled peers, researchers at the University of California Los Angeles said on Monday. Their study, published in the Personality and Social Psychology…
What is your favorite summer treat? -- Idaho Statesman. *Ice cream*Lemonade*Popsicles*Salads*Fresh fruit*Other
Item: Sali aims to increase transparency with submission of two new bills: Congressman is still looking for co-sponsors to helpback his legislation/Shawna Gamache, Idaho Statesman.Kevin Richert's: I think Sali is right on this — and that's not something I say too often. It's frustrating to…
Idawa: Here an interesting observation from my parents who moved away from Cd'A last July. They were in Cd'A for the 4th of July weekend and at all the parties they went to they heard friends tell them how "bad" it was getting in Cd'A…
I'll tell you a secret, if you don't rat me out to CdA Parks Director Doug Eastwood and his wife, Dee. I enjoyed their daughter Valerie's wedding reception at the Greenbriar Inn on Saturday. But I didn't officially attend her wedding. Remember that "My Fair…
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.
