I'm going to go out on a limb and applaud Jim Bunning for standing up to Congress and it's insatiable spending. While everyone and their pet dogs have been castigating him, I think his timing is brilliant. You see, it got the attention needed! Had…
Reindeer run down a snow covered 4th Avenue in downtown Anchorage during the third annual Running of the Reindeer during the Fur Rondy festival on Sunday. (AP Photo/Anchorage Daily News, Bill Roth)
Is this the day that Judge Benjamin Simpson puts an end to the never-ending lawsuit filed by challenger Jim Brannon to overturn his 5-vote loss to incumbent Mike Kennedy. Or does the lawsuit have a life of its own and will go on and on,…
Huckleberries has learned that Judge Benjamin Simpson has reduced the number of documents that he'll order county elections officials to produce for plaintiff Jim Brannon. Who originally asked for 48 different types of documentation. Simpson reduced the amount of documentation he'd require to about 10…
Ken Paulson, left, and Nancy Heisler, second from right, seated next to their spouses Cindy Paulson, second from left, and Ned Heisler, right, attend the memorial service for their daughter Jennifer Paulson at the Life Center Church in Tacoma on Tuesday. Jennifer Paulson a Birney…
A costumed dog with an unusually long tongue is seen during the dog street carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday. Hundreds gathered in the streets during one of the many parades before Carnival, which runs Feb. 12-16. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)Top…
4:48 p.m. Baby-sitter reports that 6YO boy and 7YO girl are running wild out in the street @ Autumn Crest Court/Post Falls.4:44 p.m. Structure fire reported at 13799 Timber Lane/Harrison. Upper floor of 2500sf house is engulfed in flame.4:39 p.m. A mother-in-law reports that her…
Nonini issued a number of strong statements during the committee hearing, such as referring to the “ugly process going on up there with JFAC,” that his committee was “chipping away at the armor they surround themselves with up there,” and, referring to the fact that…
The House Health & Welfare Committee today endorsed Rep. Rich Wills’ legislation calling for a state study of whether kicking adults off public assistance if they test positive on random drug tests would save the state more money than running the tests. Rep. Pete Nielsen,…
Huckleberries Online has learned that Judge Benjamin Simpson has dismissed the city and all other incumbents but Councilman Mike Kennedy from Jim Brannon's lawsuit -- and raised the bond for the plaintiff from $500 to $40,000. Brannon attorney Starr Kelso, according to my source, protested…
A Lewiston couple escaped unharmed after they left their kitchen for the living room, just moments before a pickup truck came crashing through the kitchen wall. Lewiston police say a drunken driver was apparently participating in sexual activity with a passenger when he lost control,…
Mark Phillips, left, and his new wife Jamie Phillips, right, hold baby Tova in their room on the maternity ward at Flower Hospital in Sylvania, Ohio, Monday. Tova surprised everyone by being born on the couple's wedding day Feb. 27. The baby was due March…
"Tonight," writes the Idaho Conservative Blog blogger, "I received an email from David Staats the Local News Editor at The Idaho Statesman which read in part, 'Every story in the Statesman, in print or online, is copyrighted under federal law, either by us or by…
At Stebbijo's Place, the blogger has posted a response from Prosecutor Barry McHugh (pictured) re: Jim Brannon's lawsuit to overthrow his 5-vote loss to incumbent Mike Kennedy. Stebbijo explains that she wrote an e-mail to McHugh to "restore integrity to our local government." McHugh's response…
With the present board as constituted, the majority favors the retention of chief Krill. Rather than let the publicly scheduled votes determine representation, a small group is circulating a petition to replace one of the commissioners (who is) in favor of retaining Chief Krill. The…
As work on the west wall of the Kibbie Dome nears completion, University of Idaho officials have finally locked in the last pieces of their plan to update the aging Kibbie Dome. Joel Mills/Lewiston Tribune story here. (Lewiston Tribune photo: Kyle Mills)Fatal crash with bicyclist…
esterday, I pushed myself hard on the circuit training equipment. After a workout that would have made Spartacus cry, it was a relief to finally drag my sore, sweaty body into the locker room and ease it under the hot water. Unfortunately, when I stepped,…
On Monday, County Clerk Dan English called to remind me of a Huckleberries print article that I wrote 3-plus years ago about his nephew, Kenny McAnally. It was about Dan opening the courthouse on Veterans Day to get his nephew a license to marry his…
11:49 a.m. PFPD Blue is checking out a semi that created a big cloud of dust as it pulled to the road side of I-90 & M/P 6, east of Spokane Street.10:58 a.m. Lakeland School District is released from lockdown.10:40 a.m. Caller reports that an…
Figpickels Toy Emporium and Papillion Paper Emporium are Calling all Kids at heart, from 6 yrs old to 100 years plus, Aspiring Pilots, Astronauts, Rocket Scientists and spectators and fun-lovers of all ages to assemble in The Plaza Shops, 210 Sherman Ave. At 11 a.m.…
The Sentinel, the student-produced newspaper at North Idaho College, won first place for general excellence for two-year college newspapers at the Associated Collegiate Press national convention in Phoenix Feb. 28. Eli Francovich of Post Falls, managing editor of a staff of 40 students with The…
Monday Poll: 64 of 112 respondents (57%) said that they either watched none of the Winter Olympics on TV or just one to 10 hours of coverage. 19 of 112 (17%) said they watched over 30 hours of coverage, 18 of 112 (16%) said 10-20…
American missionaries arrested on child kidnapping charges Laura Silsby, 40, center, and Charisa Coulter, 24, both of Meridian, Idaho, walk towards the courthouse in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)You're week daily political Wild Card is in play ...
At Ridenbaugh Press, Randy Stapilus has re-posted the “Ten Reasons Why We Need a State Militia Now" by the Pocatello Tea Party. He lists them by title. You can read the full comment from the Tea Party by clicking on the above link. The ten:…
I've watched the antics in the Legislature for years. A handful of the men and women who go there to serve each session actually do so with an idea of helping people. The rest seem to be re-living high school. It's weird...it really is. In…
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.
