Supersub Cindy will be at the controls of Huckleberries Online Friday while I take a three-day weekend, for a last breather before the final push to the 2012 general election. Treat her nice. Per usual. See you back here Monday. Now to re-post the Thursday…
Five-year-old Rian Schaible of Hayden Kinder Center participates in the Great ShakeOut earthquake preparedness drill at the school in Hayden today at 10:18 a.m. Organizers estimated about 14 million people participated. The drill was mainly for U.S. West and Southeast. Residents in Canada, Italy, Puerto…
A Gallup survey, touted as the largest of its kind, estimates that 3.4 percent of American adults identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. The findings, released Thursday, were based more than 121,000 interviews conducted from June through September. Gallup said it is the largest…
Christa Hazel reports: The meeting was convened with 4 Trustees present: Hightower, Seymour, Hamilton and Seddon (pictured). Two City Councilmen, Ron Edinger and Dan Gookin were in attendance. One member of the public, a teacher from Lakes Middle School asked to address the board and…
A duck swims as autumn's parade of fall colors is on the verge of breaking loose in the Treasure Valley today in Boise. Some trees at Kathryn Albertson Park and Boise's Northend have already began their annual transition but the there is certainly more to…
5:19 p.m. Resident asks if he can shoot neighbor's hen & cats when they're on his property. 4:57 p.m. 2 males in males in white car acting suspicious around Avista substation. 4:36 p.m. Juvenile runaway reported in 4200 block of Buckingham Road/CdA. 4:26 p.m. ITD…
Facebook Friend Ken Burchell posts: "Started digging at the "small-carrot" end of the carrot row today. These will get MUCH larger as we go along. Note: carrots get sweeter after a frost or two. Yes, those are gold, yellow, red and whites you're seeing. There…
Appointed Coeur d'Alene School Trustee Jim Hightower (show above in Duane Rasmussen photo from luncheon today) asked fellow Reagan Republicans today to write letters to the newspaper editor to take "some of the heat off" the new School Board. And he told him that he…
When Rick Unger was a boy, he and his father would fish from the breakwall where the Cuyahoga River enters Lake Erie. “I remember the smell,” says Mr. Unger, now 59. “I remember the oil slicks. I remember the fishing not being very good.” The…
The latest TV campaign commercial from opponents of the education reform propositions on Idaho’s November ballot focuses on Proposition 2, the teacher merit-pay measure, suggesting that Idaho’s state schools superintendent wants to “treat children like widgets.” The measure sets up a new merit-pay bonus system…
Kootenai County Commissioner Dan Green consults Luke Sommer, President of the Panhandle Pachyderm Club after Green's speech today at the Reagan Republican's Thursday lunch meeting. Commissioner Green spoke about his propposal to streamline Kootenai County government, by adding an administrator and eliminating three elected positions…
I was back on KHQ News Break at noon today, discussing the controversy re: the Coeur d'Alene School Board's decision to sell Person Field: KHQ Right Now - News and Weather for Spokane and North Idaho |
Looking for an opportunity to see No. 1 Eastern Washington play a home football game? All entrants in this week's news quiz are eligible to win four tickets to Saturday's game against Sac State. Also, The Spokesman-Review will be giving away a $50 gift certificate…
Susan Cuff: We subscribe to Time, but I occasionally pick up a copy of Newsweek if there’s a story that interests me. What distresses me is the demise of yet another print publication. I understand and embrace the shift to digital; I read a lot…
Influential pastor Billy Graham is signaling to evangelical Christians that they shouldn't hesitate to vote for Mitt Romney because of his Mormon religion, further cementing Romney's strong standing with the key Republican voting bloc. The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association this week removed Mormonism from its…
Kootenai County Sheriff Rocky Watson's property on Cougar Bay sits vacant today. It was burglarized sometime between Oct. 5 and Oct. 12, Watson reported. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka) Someone copped the top cop’s copper in Kootenai County. A burglar broke into a lakefront home owned…
In this April 18, 2009, file photo former Sen. George McGovern delivers remarks at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. Ann McGovern, the former senator's daughter, said Wednesday, it's a blessing that she and other family members are able to surround her…
11:44 a.m. Pickup is speeding & passing on double-yellow line s/b H95 @ Garwood. 11:36 a.m. Caller is worried re: Post Falls friend who has been drinking since Sunday & has texted that he needs help. 11:30 a.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activities report for…
Wednesday Poll: After saying Republican Mitt Romney handily won 1st presidential debate, Hucks Nation decided that President Barack Obama easily won the second one. 118 of 214 respondents (55.61%) said President Obama won the 2nd debate Tuesday night. 65 of 214 respondents (30.37%) said Romney…
When you’re looking for a Patsy Cline, you need a certain age – the singer’s career spanned just 15 years – and a certain look. Most of all, when it came to casting the star of a story told mostly through song, the director of…
Patrick McNally, Principal Bass with the Spokane Symphony lets his bass sustain on a long, low note, as local elementary students feel the vibrations through the floor on Wednesday at the Fox Theater in Spokane, Wash. The Spokane Symphony was holding a a free concert…
A Spokane psychologist who helped develop controversial interrogation methods, which some human rights groups say amount to torture, became the new spiritual leader of a Mormon congregation on the South Hill this week. Bruce Jessen was proposed by Spokane Stake President James Lee, or “called”…
For 18 years, Republican Sen. John Andreason, pictured, represented the party’s dwindling moderate wing, deflecting primary challenges from purists who called him a “Republican in Name Only,” or RINO. Andreason’s retirement ... will decide whether Democrats expand their reach into the suburbs, offering prospects of…
On her Facebook wall, Kerri Thoreson posts: "I love this driveway at the east end of Fernan Lake ... one of these days I'll drive down it and say hello to the people who live there." Question: Do you have a favorite idyllic local scene?…
The Coeur d'Alene School Board has scheduled a special meeting at 3:30 p.m. today in the district office, 311 N10th, to discuss a "possible amendment to action taken (on Monday) regarding disposal of property." As you know, the School Board voted 3-1 Monday to dispose…
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.
