Here we have Mother’s Day coming fast and furious. And just a month behind is Father’s Day. The time of phone calls. Be it the obligation kind or the grateful kind. When your parents are younger and you are in your 30’s, 40’s or even…
"Apparently people aren’t the only ones who appreciate public art," posts David Townsend/Coeur d'Alene Today. "This pair of ducks enjoyed the water feature at the Coeur d’Alene Public Library Wednesday. 'Horizons,' by artist Mark Stasz was installed in 2007 when the library opened. The ducks…
I'm trying to recover from getting up at 4 this morning to take Junior to the Spokane Airport for a 6:15 flight. He just texted to say he's back in Denver having breakfast w/my lovely daughter-in-law. Meanwhile, I'm back at the desk after a three-day…
I have the best support group of my entire life. My “Girls' Diner Club” (nicknamed by Becky Nappi when she did an article on us for the Spokesman-Review in 1993) has a phone tree that is efficient, speedy, and totally there for you at any…
Shae Carson of Coeur d'Alene High School throws the disc during the IEL track championships at Lake City High School last week. More by Greg Lee/SR here.Major construction begins between Post Falls, stateline/Erik Loney, KXLYAda County prosecutors make driver apologize in paper/Natalie Hurst, KBOICdA library…
Brad Brush uses a paint bush to touch up the 50 meter pool at the Aquatic Center prior to filling in St. Joseph. Mo., Tuesday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/St. Joseph News-Press, Eric Keith)Top Cutlines:1. Bearing a broad brush Brad Brush brushes broadly, but…
4:59 p.m. Minor injuries reported from a blocking accident involving an SUV & two or three other vehicles in front of Wendy's, H41 & Mullan.4:51 p.m. A pickup and an SUV Durango may have crashed b/c one was going the wrong way on the w/b…
A child at the North Idaho College Children’s Center was officially diagnosed with pertussis or “whooping cough,” a highly contagious bacterial disease, Thursday, May 6. The affected child is 3 years old. Following Panhandle Health District protocol in an effort to prevent the spread of…
"Okay, so maybe I was a little premature in starting our Dill's Atlantic Giant pumpkin seeds....but who would have thought they would get so incredibly big so fast?" Daisy Girl/Bent's Beer Garden. More here.Half marathon/Adventure Junkie MomSnarky answers to give to GOP political census/Arch DruidPhone…
Betsy Russell/Eye on Boise posts: "Allred released this YouTube video to rebut IACI’s charges, saying the Legislature and Gov. Butch Otter were wrong to assume that 2011’s state revenue would be no better than 2010’s, prompting an precedented cut in school funding. '2011 isn’t going…
Bonnie Gutsch, an employee of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, holds a sign with a picture of U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb who ruled last month that the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional, outside the Wisconsin Capitol today during a National Day of Prayer…
Item: Frenchtown man pleads guilty to head-butting officer on night of bachelor party/Tristan Scott, MissoulianMore Info: The Frenchtown man arrested for an abundance of bad behavior on the night of his bachelor party pleaded guilty Wednesday to felony assault for head-butting a police officer, but…
Midshipman Jessica Wilcox, center, responds to a reporter's question at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., today. Wilcox is one of 11 women selected to begin training to become submarine officers this summer in a program that takes at least 15 months. They will…
Kelcie Moseley/UI Argonaut writes: "I can’t believe the news about this oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. I keep seeing pictures of dead sea turtles and fish and it makes me sick. Then I read last night that it happened because BP didn’t think…
MikeK: School uniforms. Bring on the school uniforms. Our family has experienced both schools with uniforms and without, and unequivocally some type of standardized uniform makes things easier at every point in the process from parenting, shopping, hand-me-downs, school bullying, too much skin showing, too…
A red fox returns to its den with its kill early Wednesday, near Creston, Mont. (AP Photo/Brenda Ahearn, Daily Inter Lake)Cartoon: How to train your dragon/Milt Priggee, Seattle P-IBed bugs making a comeback in North Idaho/KREM2Labrador, Ward want to end votes for U.S. senators/Mike Butts,…
On Facebook, Editor Vickie Holbrook/Idaho Press-Tribune offers a handy tip for those of you who circulate press releases to newspapers and other media: "A bit of advice for folks in the public relations business. If you want your press release read, please put a headline…
On any other day at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Daniel Galli and his four friends would not even be noticed for wearing T-shirts with the American flag. But Cinco de Mayo is not any typical day especially on a campus with a…
The Washington State University women's rugby team defeated Temple University 37-0 in Palo Alto, Calif., to win the USA Rugby national women's collegiate Division II championship this weekend. This is the first National title for the WSU Women's Rugby team who ended the 2009-2010 season…
11:57 a.m. Caller reports a vehicle burglary in 400 block of W. Cherry/CdA.11:20 a.m. Caller has questions re: construction noise laws.11:07 a.m. A large rock is lying on Seltice b/n McGuire Road & downtown Post Falls.10:52 a.m. Jeanette wants to know if she can keep…
William Andrews Clark (left) was one of the original robber barons of the American West, a Montana Copper King, a genuine scoundrel and a United States Senator thanks to the money he spent buying a few state legislators and his ticket into the world's greatest…
Here’s a press release from former Idaho Supreme Court Justice Robert Huntley (pictured), who says he’s generally refrained from involvement in judicial elections, but since a sitting justice and a former justice have spoken out for Burdick over Bradbury and a state Bar poll that…
Wednesday Poll: 122 of 143 respondents (85%) said they do not support the repeal of the 17th Amendment (which would allow state legislatures to select U.S. senators), as advocated by some congressional candidates. Only 18 of 143 (13%) support repeal of the 17th Amendment.Today's Question…
A Moscow man whose lawyer blamed caffeine-induced psychosis for alleged hit-and-run crashes at Washington State University in December has been acquitted by reason of insanity. Whitman County Superior Court Judge David Frazier ruled today that Daniel Noble, 31, (pictured) was temporarily insane during the Dec.…
Last week, the Virginia attorney general created a controversy by stating that it's time that the female featured on his commonwealth's state seal cover up. According to National Public Radio, he gave "his staff a version in which she donned a more modest armored breastplate,…
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.
