Pita Pigsty? Pita Purgatory? Pita Pity Party perhaps? There are certainly worse names possible than Pita Pit, but I do think they’re kind of selling themselves short with a name that evokes both snake-filled crevasses and dark, shadowy underarms. Far from being “pits”, the interiors…
Washington State head coach June Daugherty, right, consoles her three senior players (left to right) Katie Appleton, Heather Molzen and Ebonee Coates after a 62-55 loss to Washington in an NCAA college basketball game Friday at Jack Friel Court in Pullman. ESPN boxscore here. (AP…
Would you favor a four-day public school week?/Lewiston TribuneYesNoOnly under dire financial circumstances
The Idaho Senate voted 17-18 on Thursday on SB 1119, the measure proposed by Avista Corp. to allow utilities to establish programs to help struggling low-income customers and cover the cost in their rates, killing the bill. Sen. Brent Hill, R-Rexburg, said, “Idaho utilities want…
Item: Gov. Butch Otter breaks with Rush Limbaugh on Obama: He hopes the president's stimulus plan works, though it conflicts with his free-market ideas/Dan Popkey, Idaho StatesmanMore Info: Conservative icon Rush Limbaugh has said that he hopes President Barack Obama fails. "No, I don't share…
Asked to react to the decision to remove wolves from the federal government's endangered species list, Idaho Gov. Butch Otter offered up a howl. Judging it on aesthetics, it was a short and not terribly rousing howl. But when was the last time a Western…
In the news this evening: President Obama plans to reverse Bush policy on stem-cell research here. Baby bottle makers are ditching the chemical BPA here. A-Roid could be facing hip surgery here. The Minnesota Supreme Court says Al Franken has no right to an election…
Jonathan Adler, the designer of Barbie's Real-Life Malibu Dream House, is pictured inside a mirror framed by Barbie Dolls in the house in Malibu, Calif., Wednesday. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) SR's Today In Photos
Slowly lifting one leg over the window sill, he felt his tights stretch out to maximum load. Maybe those last Pilsners hadn't been a good idea before he took flight. He'd thought he'd been a little weighed down, and that confused him, because his bag…
Orangutan is seen at Dusit zoo in Bangkok this week. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)Top Cutlines:1. If this is what one looks like after coming out of the cooler, then forget it, I promise to be good :) -- Marmitetoasty.2. The Daune ponders…
5:05 p.m. A woman was bitten on the hand while trying to break up a fight between 2 dogs @ 8847 West Meadowbrook Circle.5:02 p.m. Possible stranded boater @ Dog Beach.4:33 p.m. 19YO threatening suicide in 3100 block of Thorndale/Hayden.4:23 p.m. Unattended death of 56YO…
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter told the Idaho Press Club today that Rush Limbaugh isn't right when he says that he hopes President Barack Obama fails. Betsy Russell/Eye On Boise tells you all about the presentation here.CPD Blue police blotter/SRBonner County police blotter/SRDavid Elton: Dark humor?…
What's the going rate for a tooth these days? Is it a sliding scale or flat rate? According to this WebMD article, the Tooth Fairy is feeling the effects of the bad economy and our children are taking the hit. According to WebMD, the average…
With the photo of one of six robins that stopped by her yard today, Cis/Simple Mind declares that spring has arrived.Manners Matter: We need the old Emily Post lessons, a return to decorum and dress codes. We were raised by parents who stressed good manners;…
A homemade bong, consisting of a piece of garden hose attached to a duct-taped plexiglas box, is seen in this handout photo provided by the Lancaster County Sheriff's Dept. Deputies responding Sunday to a domestic disturbance call at a Lincoln, Neb., area residence, cited a…
The Idaho State Board of Education may select the next University of Idaho president by its next meeting on April 6. Spokesman Mark Browning said board members have not made an offer to either Kansas State University Provost Duane Nellis or Montana State University Provost…
American Indians, joined by whites, on Thursday celebrated the completion of a decadelong project to remove the derogatory word “squaw” from the names of 76 streams, buttes and mountains across Montana. “We celebrate 76 old places and 76 new names,” said Jennifer Perez Cole, Indian…
I have learned tonight that there have been new layoffs at the SR. I know of three news staffers who have lost their jobs. As I am no longer involved and have not talked with the new editor in some months, I do not know…
Bill Bowen of Whitehall, Mont., keeps dry with a little help from an umbrella as he fishes for steelhead Thursday, near Orofino. (AP Photo/Lewiston Tribune, Kyle Mills)Avista reimburses Hayden couple $2000/KXLYOtter will 'hold nose,' accept stimulus/Idaho StatesmanSalazar OKs wolf removal from endangered list/AP (Kevin Richert…
... you held a North Idaho Press Club meeting -- and only one member was still working full-time as a journalist? Well, you'd probably make him the president. Congrats to Brand X reporter Rick Thomas. I think. Rick was the only remaining journalist when the…
I am part of a group of people who read our local newspaper online and comment on the news of the day in the public forums provided. It's great fun and offers an excellent place to interact with others. Some of us have become close,…
I've been thinking about that flap launched Thursday when Coeur d'Alene Press Editor Mike Patrick e-mailed a demand that Huckleberries Online quit linking to his paper's online articles. (Which led to this wonderful thread.) I hope Patrick knows that such links are in the public…
Tiffany Trent, a Biologist at the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge grabs a boa constrictor as part of a training program Thursday at the park west of Boynton Beach, Fla. Wildlife officers who work in the area were taught how to capture the…
I'm somewhat ambivalent about reading the remarks of anonymous commentators who are passionate and unified behind their disdain for me. I'm not excited about it, but I'm also never emotionally distressed by it either. It would be nice if my secretive friends would put more…
Item: Hospitals won’t help patients end lives: Deaconess, Valley will opt out of law/John Stucke, SRMore Info: Spokane hospitals will not allow physicians to prescribe or administer lethal doses of medication to terminally ill patients, opting out of a voter-approved initiative that allows the controversial…
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.
