And just like that ... the hopes for an entertaining spring full of intrigue about nonpartisan races fades. Seems the Hard Right has thrown in the towel on trying to take over the hospital board, the Coeur d'Alene School board and the Post Falls School...
Anna Fenninger is seen through her alpine ski, women's World Cup overall trophy, at the World Cup finals in Meribel, France. Fenninger successfully successfully defended her overall World Cup and giant slalom titles after winning the season-ending GS race on Sunday. (AP Photo/Giovanni Auletta, File)
On a 9-8 vote, the House Judiciary Committee has killed Sen. Lee Heider’s bill to invalidate all local regulations on the use, carrying or manufacture of knives – including the rules at schools and jails. Heider, R-Twin Falls, said his bill would assert state primacy...
Utah became the only state to allow firing squads for executions Monday when Gov. Gary Herbert signed a law approving the controversial method’s use when no lethal-injection drugs are available. Herbert has said he finds the firing squad “a little bit gruesome,” but Utah is...
Penguins take center stage for the first Cutline Contest of the new work week. Gentoo penguins. The little guys are hanging out in Antarctica near a post of wooden arrows with names of cities and their respective distances. The winner of the weekend contest was gitrdun.
It's becoming clearer to everyone, columnizes Chris Carlson of Carlson Chronicles, that Idaho U.S. Congressmen Mike Simpson and Raul Labrador aren't buds. In fact, after last week's dueling op-ed pieces in Idaho papers, there are hints that the two representatives can hardly stand each other.
PM Scanner Traffic (20 items + AM Scanner Traffic link w/13 more items) includes child choking on a toy at family's Spirit Lake trailer ...
Herb Huseland, Bay Views, offers his views on turning 77 today. He credits his sanity on not having a wife who nags -- or any wife at all for that matter: "Either I wasn't good at being a husband, or I wasn't good at picking the right women." Herb is proud that he's a curmudgeon & prefers being 77 to dying younger. What have you learned from aging?
Your daily HucksOnline blog roundup features a photo essay of Gonzaga's win over Iowa in the Round of 32 by Slight Detour+Carlson Chronicles look at Reps. Simpson & Labrador+6 reasons for parents to have 'a bad feeling' by Idaho Dad+Faithful Geek tells fellow believers "Let Us Love"+more ...
The House has voted 62-8 in favor of HB 296, the career ladder teacher pay bill, sending it to the Senate side; you can read my full story here at spokesman.com. Anti-climactically, there was no debate, which surprised many – this is the bill that’s…
James Eschenbrenner, a Boise State graduate student in anthropology, sifts through soil to look for plastic human remains during a forensic anthropology class Friday at Celebration Park in Melba. The two day class was attended by about 20 students that are law enforcement officials and…
Uncle Bob is trying to proselytize Berry Pickers to join his 1st Church of Bob of Latter Day Bakers & Brewmasters. And he's offering 9% monthly tithing rate for the first year. If you conjured your own church, how would it differ from the mainstream ones found in this country?
The House, after much debate both for and against, has voted 51-18 in favor of HB 246, the anti-bullying bill. “I think it’s our responsibility to protect these children,” said the bill’s lead sponsor, Rep. Patrick McDonald, R-Boise. The bill has a bipartisan group of…
The Senate has voted 27-7 in favor of HB 154a, the “chemical abortion” bill, which places new restrictions on abortions that are performed by medication, such as RU-486, rather than by surgery. Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll, R-Cottonwood, warned of “web-cam abortions,” in which she said the…
The Senate has voted 27-7 in favor of HB 113a, the parental rights bill that the House earlier passed but that was amended in the Senate. Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll, R-Cottonwood, said the measure would ensure that courts recognize parents’ “fundamental right” to raise and educate…
Max doesn’t look much like a hero. But Robyn Maug' 8-year-old border collie/blue heeler mix is certified in both cadaver and live search. He and Maug were a valuable, if not heroic, part of rescue efforts during last year’s mudslide near Oso, Washington. Sunday marked the first anniversary of the cataclysmic event that killed 43 people ...
AM Scanner Traffic today (13 items) includes commercial trucker broken down & partly blocking w/b I-90/Yellowstone Trail, east of Coeur d'Alene ...
DFO: The Coeur d'Alene School District will have but one contested race for trustee this May -- a three-way race for Terri Seymour's Zone 3 spot. It's possible that a newcomer can win a three-way race. Unless one of the challengers drops out, nhowever, the situation favors Seymour, who will be supported by the community's Hard Right faction.
A thief who stole styro-foam pieces from a Viking Construction site on Reddington Way/Post Falls had second thoughts after being confronted by a woman who got his license plate. The Post Falls Police Department day shift explains how the gimlet-eyed woman served as the crook's conscience Sunday.
And so it begins again. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas announced on Monday morning that he would run for president in 2016, becoming the first Republican candidate to declare himself officially in the race. Cruz made his announcement at Liberty University, founded by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell, in Lynchburg, Va. Can someone from Far Right win? ...
If Kevin Pangos' hair had a Twitter feed, I would follow it. Just sayin. #InternetMakeItHappen -- Christa Hazel
The House has voted 51-17 in favor of HB 1, the bill from a Boise 8th-grader to designate the Idaho giant salamander as the state amphibian, sending the measure to the Senate – where last year, it passed overwhelmingly. Rep. Patrick McDonald, R-Boise, said, “This...
David Bond of the Wallace Street Journal was enjoying a drink with friends outside a saloon in Wallace when two young Mormon missionaries happened by. At the end of the encounter, everyone was holding hands and praying on the Wallace sidewalk. Which miffed Bond ...
AM Headlines today features remembrance of one-year anniversary of deadly mud slide at Oso, Wash+Kootenai County jobless rate stays at 4.9%+Freedom Rider tells of 60s push for civil rights+House Ed panel OKs civics test for high school graduation+Legislators hope to end 2015 session soon+more ...
Weekend Poll: Overwhelmingly, Hucks Nation felt the charges and the punishment -- 6 months in jail for Kevin Mitchell and 200 hours of work release for his stepdaughter -- were inadequate for the crimes they committed while running CoiNuts. 142 of 171 respondents (83.04%) that…
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.
