Wild Card/Monday -- 11.24.14
I never know at the start of a week where this blog will take us. We're in the dog days of fall -- if there is such a thing -- when the strange animal that is Idaho politics is simmering on the back burner. Ambitious…
MONDAY, NOV. 24, 2014
Parting Shot -- 11.24.14
A protester sits in a car looking through the window as the car is parked across from the police department this evening in Ferguson, Mo., more than three months after an unarmed black 18-year-old man was shot and killed there by a white policeman in…
$64,000 Question
So who are the applicants for the CDA Police Use of Force Board? I hope some thoughtful citizens get selected -- Bubba32.
Harbor House Open For Yule Lighting
For the first time, thousands of people who attend the annual lighting ceremony near The Coeur d’Alene Resort will have a new option for warm drinks and snacks. The Harbor House at McEuen Park will be open from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. this Friday…
Top Comments -- 11.24.14
Top Comment -- LastDemoInIdaho: A topic that deserves some consideration and frank discussion is the ongoing "Kootenai Health" gobbling-up of almost all the medical facilities in the community. Can't help but question why, and what all this consolidation under one name and one roof means…
Transgender's Funeral Creates Anger
Jennifer Gable was a Twin Falls native who lived in Boise and worked at Wells Fargo Bank. She died suddenlly Oct. 9 at the age of 32, from an aneurysm, friends said. Gable, a transgender individual, had changed her name legally from Geoff in 2007.…
PM Scanner Traffic -- 11.24.14
Andor, the Post Falls Police Department K-9 unit, enjoys the snowfall last week. (Photo: PFPD Facebook page)
Missing Your Cattle?
From KCSOffice Facebook: "The Kootenai County Sheriff's Office is looking for the owner of 6 head of cattle that were found last Wednesday wandering the area of north Clagstone Rd, just north of Hwy 54. Most of the cattle are primarily black with one being…
St. Vinny's Warming Centers To Open
The St Vincent de Paul warming centers will be open Wednesday through Monday, Dec. 1. The nights are suppose to be cold this week. The Warming Centers will be open on nights that fall below 25 degrees.
Lake City Center Needs More Turkeys
Organizers of a free Thanksgiving Day meal at the Lake City Center in Coeur d’Alene are in need of a few more turkeys, about 40 pies and additional cash donations to pull off Thursday’s dinner. This is the 17th year of the feast – a…
Stapilus: A Marker For Labrador
How many Idahoans watched President Obama’s speech Thursday about changes in the federal response to immigrants who got here against the law? Was Representative Raul Labrador among them – and did it spark any activist thoughts in his own mind? Idaho generally has some particular…
HucksOnline Blogos -- 11.24.14
On his Facebook page, SR photo Colin Mulvany writes of his photo (above): "Today's 'One for Me' snap is from an assignment to photograph ballet dancers performing in a mall to promote the upcoming production of 'The Nutcracker.' I made my photographs that would work…
Craig To Appeal Adverse Court Ruling
Former Idaho Sen. Larry Craig, the newly named finance chairman for the Idaho Republican Party, has filed a notice of appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals D.C. Circuit in Washington, D.C. of a September judge's order that he pay $242,535 to the U.S. Treasury…
Multnomah Falls: A Sight To Behold
People gather to take photos from the bridge in front of Multnomah Falls near Bridal Veil, Ore. The United States' second-tallest year-round waterfall is a huge tourist draw. (AP file photo: Rick Bowmer)
NI Man Gets 20 Yrs For Kidnap, Rape
A North Idaho man will spend at least 20 years behind bars for beating, raping and tying up a 13-year-old female relative last year. Michael David Nixon spent most of today’s hour-long sentencing hunched forward with his head down, shaking. His lawyer and a sister…
Letter: An Angry White Man
As someone already angry in the late 1980s and early ’90s, I used to drive around Portland and Vancouver listening to Rush Limbaugh explain to me what was wrong with this country. I did that for, oh, maybe six months. Then I realized that Limbaugh…
Jesse: He Conned Me But That's OK
On his Facebook page, SR photog bud Jesse Tinsley posts: "A 60-something homeless guy asked me for a dollar to buy coffee. I gave him one of the two dollars I had and we chatted. He said he lived at Truth Ministries, a downtown shelter.…
Gonzaga Reaches Top 10
Gonzaga men’s basketball climbed to No. 10 in the Associated Press poll this week after dismantling SMU and St. Joseph to secure a 4-0 start. Meanwhile, top-ranked Kentucky consolidated its standing atop the list after routing Boston and Montana State, earning all but three votes…
Mine Proposals Threaten Cabinets
Rich Costello pauses during a hike into Rock Lake, near Noxon, Mont. (SR Outdoors photo: Rich Landers)
Solon: Emperor Otter Has No Clothes
An op-ed column penned by a far-right member of the Idaho House, and reprinted in several Idaho newspapers, has triggered quite a bit of conversation. In her guest editorial, titled "Is Idaho As Corrupt as DC?" Midvale Republican Rep. Judy Boyle, who was recently re-elected…
AM Scanner Traffic -- 11.24.14
11:39 a.m. Officer stopping to check on welfare of male in red vest walking along H41/Lancaster, Rathdrum. 11:37 a.m. Officer stopping driver of vehicle @ Govt Way/Lancaster, Hayden, for having no license plates. 11:35 a.m. 78YO female injured in fall @ 5300 block of 4th…
Nation Backs Immigration Exec Order
Voters are very supportive of President Obama’s executive order on immigration, according to a new poll from an organization aligned with Democrats. Sixty-seven percent of voters said that they had a favorable opinion of the plan when it was described to them, and 28 percent…
Report: Cleanup Has Improved Basin
Cleaning up historic mining waste is paying dividends for water quality in the Coeur d’Alene River Basin, according to a new report published by the U.S. Geological Survey. The report looked at two decades of water quality data for the Coeur d’Alene River and its…
Cheering On The Zags
On Facebook, SR photog bud Colin Mulvany deemed this photo his favorite one from Gonzaga's beat down of St. Thomas Aquinas (109-55) on Saturday at the McCarthey Center. Do you like it, too?
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.