Steven Pottenger, foreground, high-fives the crowd after he and partner Kendra Moyle performed their short program during the pairs competition at the U.S. figure skating championships in Spokane Friday. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)See SR photos of the men's championships hereGet behind-the-scenes action at Passport to Gold…
Picking an Olympic team is serious business, and apparently not to be trusted to the vagaries of do-or-die competition. Still, if the U.S. skating aristocracy wanted to do this right, surely it could figure a way to include in the process the Sagarin Ratings, the…
JT: It's also ironic that we complain about a lack of funding for most existing schools and yet there's this groundswell of support for the Professional Technical High School and whatnot. Once upon a time businesses trained their own people or supported apprenticeships and unions…
The snores started a few minutes into the court hearing. She was there to support Peter Krueger, the man badly burned by John C. Palmer, but Krueger grew upset when the woman wouldn’t wake up and left court without her. So she kept sleeping, eliciting…
It may seem odd to cut taxes when state revenues fell 15 percent last year. But some House Republicans are drop-dead serious about a plan to cut income tax rates - both personal and corporate - by about a third. Led by House Majority Leader…
The Ninth Circuit Court has handed Washington Democrats one of their fondest dreams without paying the slightest political price. Two of the Democrats' most loyal constituencies are the dead and convicted felons. Allies such as ACORN see to it that the dead get to the…
TGIF Poll: 43% of the respondents (36 of 84) said North Idaho College didn't do the right thing when college officials fired workforce training director Robert Ketchum. 31% (26 of 84) said NIC officials were right to fire him. The rest were divided between "dunno"…
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.
