JohnA: We live closer to St. Maries than CDA so we spend a lot of time in that unique community. I can honestly say there are some great people in that city, but it does seem you are traveling back in time when you cross…
Baylor University freshman Dan Dinh, right, along with other students demonstrate in front of the Bill Daniel Student Center on campus where new Baylor President Kenneth Starr met with faculty and students today in Waco, Texas. Starr, the former independent prosecutor whose work led to…
Huckleberries Online turns 6 today. That's right, I launched this blog on Feb. 16, 2004. I don't know how many years 6 is in blog years. A dog ages 7 years per human year. I'd calculate that a blog ages a decade for every human…
Elliott Weiss woke up one morning in college, realized he didn't want to spend his life sitting at a desk and became a dog handler and dog-show judge instead. Now Weiss, who lives in Eagle, will be the judge for the culminating event in the…
A helicopter flies past the crater of Mount St. Helens this afternoon, during the search for a climber who fell 1,500 feet into the dormant crater of the volcano Monday in Washington state. veteran climber Joseph Bohlig, who fell 1,500 feet into the crater atop…
Lying on the floor under a table, a makeup artist paints the toenails of a model backstage before the Halston fall 2010 collection is shown Monday, during Fashion Week in New York. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/David Goldman)Top Cutlines:1. Citing the high cost of…
5:55 p.m. Child reports hearing a screen door slam next door and a whimper @ Vinton & 2nd/Hauser. But parent explains to 911 that it was only a cat beating up on a dog.5:27 p.m. 2 women say they were harassed by a male in…
Legislation that had unanimously passed the House to grant a temporary, two-year sales tax exemption to non-profit homeless shelters in Idaho has been killed - unanimously - in the Senate Local Government & Taxation Committee. Rep. Branden Durst, D-Boise, sponsor of HB 435, said after…
Three men were seriously injured in a rollover crash early Tuesday morning about a mile outside of Renton. The van was going west on state Route 900 around 12:25 a.m. when the driver lost control, and the van slid off the pavement, over a ditch…
Former U.S. Olympic speed skater Bonnie Blair attends the unveiling of her image on U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame Tribute at USA House in Vancouver, British Columbia on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Question: Which U.S. Winter Olympian is your all-time favorite?
So many people will now gainfrom thee, my swollen pile of pain:the doctor and the nurse I'll payto make sure that you go away;the tech who's paid to run the test;the clerk who sends out that request;the pharma firm that sells the med;the drugstore too…
School board members in Platte County's School District 1 have declined to reconsider their decision to ban banners promoting an anti-discrimination campaign because a gay rights group is helping sponsor the program. More than 50 parents, students and area residents packed the board's Monday night…
... reacts to my comment piece in the Handle Extra: "The spokesman will hire anyone, you need to go back where ever you came from!! I canceled my subscription, and will have not have a good thing to say about you or the paper of…
Dan Dickau feels pulled in a couple of directions. There's the sharp tug of knowing that his wife, Heather, is at their home in Battle Ground, Wash., temporarily corralling their three young children. Dickau has been away only a couple days and misses them already.…
USA goalie Ryan Miller tries to cover the puck during the second period of a preliminary round men's ice hockey game against Switzerland at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)Question: Which would you rather watch -- a hockey…
President Obama told an enthusiastic audience of union officials on Tuesday that the Energy Department had approved a loan guarantee intended to underwrite construction of two nuclear reactors in Georgia, with taxpayers picking up much of the financial risk. If the project goes forward, it…
JeanieS (Re: Fat film director tossed off flight): How much must a person weigh to be too fat to fly? almost makes me try for a joke, but the ensuing thread makes me question some real prejudices here. Fattie? Normal? How, actually, is normal defined…
At the San Francisco Chronicle, columnist Mark Morford writes an ode to the sad 'n squishy white guys in American. Quoth: "Do you feel any empathy for their perilous plight, their incessant sexual frustration, their terrible taste in light domestic beer and that tell-tale slumping…
Canadian artist Rich Loffler poses with his 1,200 pound sculpture of Outlaw, a famed bucking bull, at Art Castings of Montana in Belgrade, Mont. Staying on Outlaw was such a daunting task that rodeo organizers made him a "bounty bull," meaning the first rider to…
It took bravado, persistence and a $10 bet for a dashing Connecticut Yankee to win the heart of a petite Texas belle. Nick Gaynos and a friend were having drinks in the Bamboo Room of the Hotel Californian in Fresno, in the spring of 1943.…
Monday Poll: 36 of 63 (57%) of the respondents said they'd like to see Congress do away with the filibuster. 22 of 63 (35%) support the procedure which allows a minority party to stall legislation.Wolf Hunt Poll: 48 of 96 (50%) of you Berry Pickers…
11:35 a.m. Coeur d'Alene tribal police are seeking agency assistance and a police dog to help find a handcuffed prisoner who ran out of tribal court.10:25 a.m. Ambulance is responding for an 80ish male whose pulse and respiration dropped during surgery @ North Idaho Eye…
It's hard to believe that I'm 6 years into this cyberspace experiment called Huckleberries Online (and No Holds Barred and Hot Potatoes before that). I started this blog six years ago to provide a conservative voice in support of George Bush's successful re-election. Since 2004,…
Mike Robertson of Canada, right, leads, Nate Holland of the USA, left during the snowboard cross final at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Monday. Shortly afterward, Holland, a Sandpoint native, spun out and finished fourth in the race, one spot away from…
Big things are happening at OpenCHRG, according to Mary Souza. Seems OpenCDA.com is now the blog arm of Citizens for Honest & Responsible Government. But the CHRG Web site has encountered technical difficulties and will be down for an 8 count. But Mary assures her…
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.
