Huckleberries Online is open for business this week, as you can see by the various threads below. I enjoyed the time off, moving my daughter into a new place in Portland. Powell's bookstore picked up a little of my money. I saw "The Dark Knight"…
At a McMennamins restaurant restroom in northwest Portland last week, Amy Dearest spotted graffiti that underscores the smugness of urban Oregonians. The first post notes that the toilet paper in the women's restroom is from Michigan, complaining, "But we're in Oregon." To which another added…
6:05 p.m. Bicyclist down and bleeding after suffering a possible broken foot in a crash near a local Shell station.5:45 p.m. 14-year-old girl has a bloody nose and reportedly can't remember hitting her head in the wave pool at Silverwood.5:08 p.m. Possible grass fire in…
Justin Connaher/The Reporter, APAnthony Pagor, left in black T-shirt, Dale Meyer, center, Brandon Meyer, second from right, and Justin Williams, partially seen, of Team Deliverance wrestle a hog during the Eldorado Community Picnic in Eldorado, Wis., Saturday. You write the cutline.Top Cutlines:1. 1. North Idaho…
Bashful Dan PhotoJason Johnson, an Engineer in Sandpoint, hooked up a float that looks like a B2 Stealth Bomber behind his jet ski, reports photographer Bashful Dan. His daughter, Ashley, 7, a second-grader at Washington Elementary, climbed aboard the float. "A few minutes later," Bashful…
The Coeur 'd'Alene Tribe is offering a $5,000 reward in hopes of tracking down the person who last week called in threatening that there were bombs in the Coeur d'Alene Casino. The call came in just before midnight on July 15, and the suspect has…
Kerri Thoreson/OnLocation North IdahoEveryone knows you have to crawl before you can walk. This youngster appears to be crawling on Spirit Lake ... If you look closely you'll see he's actually playing on a slightly submerged piece of adrift dock/Kerri Thoreson, OnLocation North Idaho.Ten years…
Item: Chief to ACLU: Droop dead/Ben Schmitt, Detroit Free PressMore Info: Flint's police chief isn't backing off from his crackdown on saggy pants. The American Civil Liberties Union said last week that today would be the deadline for Chief David Dicks to halt the stopping…
Jesse Tinsley, SR"Here's a picture I snapped on my point-and-shoot camera Sunday along the Coeur d'Alene River Road," e-mails SR colleague Jesse Tinsley. "This young male was wading in a creek off the road, gathering a crowd of passing campers who were on their way…
HBO Question: Would you condone a reporter or a columnist secretly taping a news source to gather information for a story or column?SR Editor Steve Smith: Doing so in Idaho would be unethical. We would not condone it and it is, in fact, against policy.…
A brazen Post Falls burglar entered three unlocked and occupied homes over the weekend, startling three women as he looked for valuables to steal. The man was captured early Saturday morning by Post Falls Police after one woman's husband chased him out of the house.…
To hear several bloggers tell it, Bryan Fischer and Brandi Swindell are a two-headed soundbite-spewing monster created and sated by the media. Including the Statesman and its opinion page. Wow, and all for doing my job: Ensuring our Opinion pages make space for a variety…
Awout David Phillip/APIn a Sunday Feb. 1, 2004, file photo, entertainer Janet Jackson, left, covers her breast after her outfit came undone during the half time performance with Justin Timberlake at Super Bowl XXXVIII in Houston. A federal appeals court today threw out a $550,000…
I've finally read an actual "Handle Extra" which I picked up outside of Dashco in Rathdrum* last night while scoring some ibuprofen for my dirt bike ridin sore back and a single scoop cone of some sort of weird brownie icecream concoction (they have the…
How big of an impact do alcoholic beverages have on your diet?/Idaho Statesman. *Big impact*Little impact*I drink only light beer*I have a glass of wine with dinner*I don't count calories*I don't drink*No opinion
I knew we were up for an excellent sushi experience right away when I spotted Travis Whiteside behind the small rounded sushi bar, an island floating separately from the main counter. Whiteside is somewhat of a sushi celebrity in the Inland Northwest, having spent ages…
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.
