Cindy will be running Huckleberries Online for the next two days, as I'm going to kick back for a four-day weekend. Yes ... thus begins the never-ending vacation that helps me cope here at Huckleberries Central. Feeding the insatiable maw of the blog isn't as…
First Lady Michelle Obama and Food Network chef Rachel Ray discuss lunches with students from the Eastside and Northside Elementary Schools during a "Let's Move!" program at the Clinton, Miss., schools today. The pair visited with the children and conducted a cooking contest between the…
The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee set budgets this morning for the governor’s office and the legislative branch, and due to statutory requirements, both of those include salary boosts for elected officials. Specifically, the governor’s salary was required by law to rise from $115,348 to $117,000 on…
5;18 p.m. Silver Jeep & red Pontiac Grand Am involved in road rage incident @ I-90/4th St, CdA. 4:47 p.m. A Dumpster fire is reported in 3400 block of Lilac Court/Post Falls. 4:36 p.m. Honda SUV driving erratically, slowly on n/b Ramsey/Prairie, Hayden. 4:21 p.m.…
At Priest Lake, As the Lake Churns blogger Pecky Cox asks: "WHO IS going to tell them we're done serving for this winter at Casa Cox?" Teen charged in toy gun incident/Cameron Rasmusson, Bee Budget covers raises for governor, legislators/Betsy Russell, EOB Gonzaga students line…
Last week I (Cindy) attended a Donkey basketball game at my son's middle school. Those donkeys traveled all the time and never got called on it. The Zags may be more thrilling to watch and probably smell better, but their games are never as funny…
The anti-tax group that bankrolled one-term Congressman Bill Sali’s 2006 campaign says Idaho’s 8-term GOP Rep. Simpson is among nine “Republicans in Name Only” it aims to unseat in 2014 primaries. Club for Growth spent $1.1 million on behalf of former Idaho GOP Rep. Bill…
Just chop the thing down and acknowledge the fact that freedom’s passé since the Patriot Act. The Bard of Sherman Avenue
More Idaho workers earned minimum wage in 2012 than in any year since the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics started keeping track a decade ago. The Idaho Department of Labor reports 7.7 percent of Idaho workers earned $7.25 an hour or less last year. That’s…
U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador blasted President Barack Obama on Wednesday for lack of leadership in the sequestration spat, while hinting his willingness to accept some Democratic positions in potential immigration reform legislation. Labrador, R-Idaho, accused Obama and the media of “scare tactics” in emphasizing the…
The story of The Rolling Stones is so huge it takes 2½ floors of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum to tell. The Cleveland-based museum will open "Rolling Stones: 50 Years of Satisfaction," an exclusive exhibit celebrating the archetypal rock band, on…
Sad news to report today. I just verified with the Coos Bay Chapel in Coos Bay, Ore., that whimsical Dave Holmes, 58, (aka Atmospheric Ruminations) died of natural causes on Nov. 4. Dave, as you know, moved from his native Coeur d'Alene a few years…
Lori Pike, left, and fired public school science teacher John Freshwater, right, stand in front of a portrait of Thomas J. Moyer in the lobby of the Supreme Court before Freshwater's hearing on Wednesday in Columbus, Ohio. In a heated hour of arguments, Ohio Supreme…
The minutes of the Lake City Development Corporation Tuesday show the action taken by the urban renewal district to increase the funding for McEuen Field to $15.6M: "LCDC Executive Director Berns introduced this proposed agreement amendment to the Board indicating that the existing LCDC/City of…
Sho-Con ("Lake City Freedom Tree faces ax"): I spend money in Coeur d'Alene. And, if the "view corridor" version is true, a slap in the face to our veterans for such a trivial reason reaches beyond city and county lines. Not to mention my business…
How much do you know about Gonzaga University basketball players, taxes on Girl Scout Cookies, new gaming systems and other current events? Take our weekly interactive quiz and find out. You could win movie tickets, EWU basketball tickets or a $50 gift card to the…
Second-ranked Gonzaga's game at BYU on Thursday suddenly has national significance. With No. 1 Indiana losing to Minnesota on Tuesday, the Zags might reach the top of the AP basketball poll Monday if they can beat BYU then defeat Portland on Saturday. The feat would…
Sisyphus (re: "Strategery: Luna Laws had poor PR"): Oh please. "Astroturfing" applies to the big business interests who called themselves "concerned parents" and endeavored to hide the fact that they were actually the very wealthy non-citizens, including billionaire Michael Bloomberg. If anything the IEA and…
Jacob Petri runs with other Mundelein High School students in a strength and conditioning class during a snow storm in Mundelein, Ill., Tuesday. (AP Photo/Daily Herald, Gilbert R. Boucher II)
11:46 a.m. Bomb squad is en route to Solid Waste Transfer station, 3650 Ramsey Road for report of undisclosed type of explosive. 11:37 a.m. Caller reports tow truck speeding, cutting others off @ w/b I-90/Pleasantview, PF. 11:35 a.m. PFPD Blue has recovered a stolen bike,…
Henry "Digger" Johnston, a regular here since the beginning of Huckleberries, and his partner, Alex, are the subject of a New York Times article on same-sex marriage that focus on the difference in law on the controversial issue between Washington & Idaho: The border with…
Tuesday Poll: A supermajority of Hucks Nation doesn't plan to attend the hydroplane races scheduled for Lake Coeur d'Alene over the Labor Day weekend this summer. 122 of 169 respondents (72.19%) say they won't attend the races, the first in more 40 years, if they…
Lawmakers fearful the U.S. Supreme Court might one day reverse itself on the issue of individual gun rights aim to change the Idaho Constitution's definition of a militia to include all the state's adults. That way, argued Sen. Jim Rice of Caldwell Wednesday in the…
An Idaho House committee was bowled over today by one of the most persuasive pitches for a bill so far this legislative session – and it came from a 12-year-old. “Idaho is home to many amazing amphibians,” sixth-grader Ilah Hickman told the House State Affairs…
Angela Weekes, left, and Kari Seibel lead the Nampa Police Department's charge against domestic violence, which focuses in part on recognizing the signs and significance of strangulation. The NPD is one of the first departments in the nation to adopt a new online training program…
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.
