We've arrived at the day before the election, with fear and trembling. Kootenai County is about to elect a GOP Extreme Team to the Legislature and, possibly, the Kootenai County Board of Commissioners. I don't expect it'll be good for governance. But it'll make for…
Jason Kilborn sets up voting booths in the south concourse at the Kibbie Dome in Moscow earlier today. Kilborn and other workers from Latah County set up 120 voting boths in Moscow on Monday in preparation for Tuesday's election. (AP Photo/Moscow-Pullman Daily News, Geoff Crimmins)
In a special op-ed piece for the Coeur d'Alene Press Online, Kootenai Health critical care nurse Thomas Madison writes: "Soon, I will be fired. I am an experienced (25 years) and reliable employee in a field (critical care nursing) where there is a national shortage.…
Top Comment -- PatrickH (RE: Death with dignity advocate, RIP): I'm not sure I like the term, "death with dignity." ive known people who didn't have that option, or didn't take that option, and I don't think that they died without dignity, or that their…
5:33 p.m. Semi truck high-centered @ Coeur d'Alene Library, 710 E. Front/CdA. 5:30 p.m. Driver of pickup spotlighting animals @ H97/MP 62 (Sunset Drive, near Harrison), possible poaching. 5:16 p.m. Animal left in vehicle @ McEuen Park, possible animal abuse. 4:46 p.m. 2-vehicle, rear-end, injury…
It's dark at five, and sun is craved -- where's all that daylight that we saved?
At the Inlander's Bloglander blog (say that fast a coupla times), Christian Vosler reports: "Recently merged thespian centers Interplayers Professional Theater and Lake City Playhouse announced today that they have a new name: The Modern Theater. Spokane's Interplayers Theater officially merged with Coeur d'Alene's Lake…
Above, after the funeral service Saturday afternoon, 50 friends and family of Get Out! North Idaho blogger Patrick Jacobs tied a bunch of orange balloons to the Allium Spring Chorus at McEuen Park, one of Patrick's favorite pieces of public art in town. (Photo: Kerri…
This undated photo provided by Compassion & Choices shows Brittany Maynard, a terminally ill woman. Sean Crowley, spokesman from the group Compassion & Choices, said late Sunday, that Maynard was surrounded by family Saturday when she took lethal medication prescribed by a doctor under Oregon's…
Duane Rasmussen and I have this ongoing disagreement re: what constitutes the tea party. He says that the tea party folded in Kootenai County when Phil and Leslie Damiano ended their Tea Party Patriots of North Idaho organization after being targeted by the IRS. I…
Marianne Love/Slight Detour laments the type of vicious rhetoric that has infected the political season in Bonner & Boundary counties this fall, including the nasty remarks aimed at respected state Sen. Shawn Keough, R-Sandpoint (above). Posts Marianne: "Sometimes during political seasons, one can sit back…
In this June 19, 2008, photo, Tom Magliozzi, co-host with his brother Ray of National Public Radio's "Car Talk" show, poses with a caricature of himself in Cambridge, Mass. NPR says Magliozzi died today of complications from Alzheimer's disease. He was 77. Story here. (AP…
Idaho high school government students participating in the Idaho Mock Student Election were deeply divided in the race for governor, but they gave the edge to GOP Gov. Butch Otter, with 679 votes to Democrat A.J. Balukoff’s 617 votes. Libertarian John Bujak trailed with 131…
If one believes the polls, Republicans will take control of the U.S. Senate next week, and retain the House of Representatives. For the Republic, this may or may not be a good thing. As astronaut Alan Shepard, Jr. famously prayed, muttering into his microphone, on…
At Bay Views, Herb writes: "So far this morning I have received 5 robo-calls and the day is young. I have a system. If caller ID can't, I let the answering machine take the call. Vick touting Barbieri, (talk about preaching to the choir) etc.…
The Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations will host a reception and a book signing this coming Saturday at 6:00 PM at the Human Rights Education Institute, 414 Mullan Street in Coeur d’Alene with author and former FBI Special Agent Wayne F. Manis. The…
Candles are held by people greeting school buses driving past as students return to Marysville-Pilchuck High School following a week off after a shooting that left four students dead, including the shooter, and two students still in a Seattle hospital, Monday in Marysville, Wash. After…
If a weekend poll is any indication, the state superintendent’s race could be Tuesday night’s biggest nailbiter. Republican Sherri Ybarra (pictured) is leading Democrat Jana Jones 46 percent to 45 percent, with 9 percent of respondents still undecided, according to a new poll from Public…
12:14 p.m. CPR in progress for male @ 5400 block of Mount Carroll/Dalton Gardens. 11:59 a.m. Animal control officer catches loose dog @ Jennifer/Wyoming, Hayden. 11:44 a.m. 22YO female who is 3 months pregnant passed out @ Chase Bank in Fred Meyer's store/CdA. 11:40 a.m.…
The latest on Sherri Ybarra’s search for a campaign catchphrase, from the state superintendent candidate’s Facebook page. “We will be announcing the catchphrase winners tomorrow morning at 8 a.m.,” the Ybarra campaign said Monday. “Again, thank you for your participation, feedback, and creativity! Have a…
Weekend Poll: By a one-vote margin, Hucks Nation sez that citizens should be encouraged to vote, even if they have little to no knowledge of the candidates or issues. 74 of 156 respondents (47.44%) took that position. 73 of 156 respondents (46.79%) said such people…
A female Facebook Friend is advocating that women join the men in raising cancer awareness in November by not shaving either. November is No Shave Month. The thinking behind the event is for men to grown beards and mustaches because those undergoing cancer treatment lose…
There are still some people in Idaho who aren't ashamed to be called Constitutionalists. Rather than embed themselves in the county Republican Central Committees, these partisans and their candidates proudly embrace their pedigree of "limited government, self reliance & liberty."
On his campaign Facebook page, Marc Eberlein, the Republican candidate for Kootenai County commissioner, defends the North West Property Owners Association: "Why do the Kootenai County Democrats and their candidates persist in labeling the NWPOA, it’s members and supporters as extreme right wing and anti-government?…
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.
