Well, the local Republicans under Tina Jacobson & Phil Hart may own the Kootenai County Courthouse. But they still haven't taken over Huckleberries Online here at Online Free Coeur d'Alene. I'll continue to call 'em as I see him and let the chips fall where…
How about closing tonight with another photo that Kerri Thoreson posted on her Facebook page from her trip Armstrong Hill to Armstrong Park (on Potlatch Hill, east of CdA) -- this one to the west with a bit of the Coeur d'Alene Resort golf course,…
“The horses started freaking out,” said Pitman, who first saw a group of wolves approaching no more than 30 to 40 yards away. Appleby saw them soon after. “There were seven or eight of them and they were running at us at full stride at…
5:56 p.m. Coeur d'Alene police activities report (for 24 hours ending 6 a.m. today) here.5:44 p.m. Post Falls mother reports that an apartment neighbor's son just shot her boy in the eye with an aero-soft gun.5:25 p.m. 4 teen boys are in front of the…
Ed Haglund cruised around Cougar Bay on his tug boat in Coeur d'Alene on Thursday. Haglund is president of Cougar Bay Osprey Protective Association. The association wants to preserve some of the pilings and boom sticks in Cougar Bay for wildlife habitat and to enforce…
A federal appeals court declined a BNSF Railway Co. request to block a lawsuit filed by 152 Livingston residents who want the company to pay for the cleanup of toxic chemicals from a contaminated rail yard. The city and residents said in the lawsuit that…
A GOP lawmaker from North Idaho has filed a new ethics complaint against Rep. Phil Hart, saying Hart’s 1996 theft of state school endowment-owned timber, claims of legislative immunity and tax protesting show he’s violated his oath of office. Rep. Eric Anderson, R-Priest Lake, calls…
Saturday, October 30, 2010: 2259 hours -- 115 S 2nd St – DUI: "Officers responded to a battery call at the Shore Lounge reference an altercation between two males. Apparently the males used to be roommates and had an ongoing dispute. The suspect was found…
Thursday Poll: A plurality of 66 of 161 respondents (41%) don't expect House Speaker Lawerence Denney to punish tax dodger Rep. Phil Hart in any way when they meet next week to discuss a House Ethics Committee recommendation that Hart be stripped of his Revenue…
I'm using this post to introduce you to Nina Culver's new Spokane Valley Blog. In one of her first posts, Nina reports about the theft of two giant eagle egg shells that were stolen this week from a Spokane Valley playground: "You will see a…
Dan Gookin: Look for a move by the Legislature to turn municipal elections partisan. I have mixed feelings on this: Local issues shouldn't be partisan. Yet the extremes have such a stranglehold on the process, and some voters are so ill-informed, that it seems inevitable.…
Jammin: As far as talking about periods in public -- I agree with Shoshone that it's a bodily function just like anything else, and talking about flow, etc is not public discussion. However, I refuse to be embarrassed walking through the grocery store with tampons,…
In the comments section, Lizard People, Cabbage Boy, & I have a good conversation going re: the shorthand Huckleberries Online should use for the Tina Jacobson-Phil Hart-Bob Pederson (Rally Right) wing of the local Republican Party. Cabbage Boy launched the conversation by terming the Old…
In fact, says Geoffrey Harvey of the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, traces of the 2004 leak are still detected in the aquifer. “It’s still an open case. The cleanup standard in the aquifer is ‘no detection,’ which is a very high standard. There are…
The news that MSNBC's Keith Olbermann contributed to the campaigns of three Democratic candidates has to be the most shocking development since Lindsay Lohan's last arrest. Watch "Countdown" for five minutes and it's clear that Olbermann is a fierce partisan who uses his program to…
12:41 p.m. My wife called from I-90 to say that a crash in median @ Liberty Lake has traffic backed up in both directions.Noon: Male on 16th Avenue (Dalton Gardens) is threatening to kill himself by monoxide poisoning.11:26 a.m. Home Deport reports someone has fallen…
Judge Charles Hosack has signed his decision against plaintiff Jim Brannon in Brannon's challenge to the 2009 municipal election in which he lost to incumbent Mike Kennedy by 3 votes. Hosack signed the order for his ruling for Kennedy Thursday. Which means that Brannon now…
Now that local Republicans "own" the Kootenai County Courthouse, I predict they'll go after Coeur d'Alene City Hall next. Incumbents Ron Edinger, Al Hassell, & John Bruning will have the fight of their lives if they seek re-election because, I suspect, they'll face a ticket…
At OpenCDA.com, Dan Gookin goes through an exercise in which he posts his picks, predictions, and winners of the recent election. Interestingly, he thought Walt Minnick, Dan English, and Jody Deluca-Hissong were going to win seats. Obviously, he was delighted that he is wrong re:…
Linda Lantzy of Idaho Scenic Images has been taken her camera on walks around Coeur d'Alene this fall -- and we're all lucky for it. Here, she shoots the low water levels and fog on Lake Coeur d'Alene this week. You can see all her…
Every man in America, when the topic of female menstruation comes up, goes "nananana." A guy friend of mine blocks his ears. He almost blushes just because I have mentioned the word "period" sitting in a public coffee shop. He could not believe I would…
The untold and certainly most important story from the 2010 General Election in Idaho is this: Not a single representative, senator or executive branch official who supported significant reductions in government spending lost re-election Nov. 2. That's a fact. Voters rewarded those politicians who stood…
On its Web site today, the Coeur d'Alene Press asked several readers whether they think the new county government (with new 2 new commissioners, new clerk, & new coroner) will make a difference. Darwin Clark of Coeur d'Alene said: "I really hope so. We need…
Republican Sen.-elect Kelly Ayotte and some supporters hold signs in Manchester, N.H., to thank voters Wednesday. Even though many high-profile women ran for office, feminists say the 2010 campaign was rife with sexism ranging from snarky fashion critiques to sexual innuendo. And when all the…
Smacky: I can completely understand a disillusioned moderate in Idaho saying, “pffffft” and going out for a beer instead. When you continually take the time to vote and the chairs on the titanic never move, it becomes either an exercise in futility or insantity…or both.Question:…
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.
