My morning began at 4:45 with a rush across town to the Kootenai Health ER, where my 89YO mother was getting patched up after banging her head in a fall in her assisted-living apartment. She received a good gonk on the head and was sore....
Pope Francis is driven through the crowd under pouring rain as he arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican today. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Two boys were arrested at Lakeland High School in Rathdrum after carrying a realistic-looking toy gun into the school. One of the boys was carrying the gun in his sweatshirt pocket with only the handle sticking out, according to the Rathdrum Police Department, which responded…
PM Scanner Traffic (14 items + AM Scanner Traffic link) includes search by Rathdrum police and KCSDeputies for 2 male juveniles who brought a gun onto Lakeland High campus. The gun was confiscated & police have deemed Lakeland High safe ...
The Hump Day Cutline Contest features a 1952 artwork by French artist Henri Matisse titled "Blue Nude, The Frog." Tuesday's winner -- FunGirl.
Normally quarrelsome House Republicans came together Wednesday night and passed a boldly conservative budget that relies on nearly $5 trillion in cuts to eliminate deficits over the next decade, calls for repealing the health care law and envisions transformations of the tax code and Medicare.…
State Rep. Paul Shepherd, R-Riggins, is bemused that a college student has bought his former campaign website domain and turned it into a resource site for LGBT youth. Shepherd is author of the memorial calling for impeachment for federal judges who support same-sex marriage. He told Idaho Reports that he's not backing down on that bill.
In today's North Idaho blogosphere roundup, Huckleberries features the old Playland Pier carousel, which graced the Coeur d'Alene waterfront from 1941 until the mid-1970s, as well as links to 12 other blog posts from regional bloggers.
Idaho is one of eight states without an agency or independent commission to oversee state ethics laws. It is one of three states with no financial disclosure requirements for state, judicial, county and city elected officials, and it has no "revolving door" policy. These shortcomings...
At the Los Angeles Times, reporter Mary L. Laganga writes that a creationism museum near Boise is located in the perfect state for religious conservatism. Laganga backgrounds her article with comments about Hindu prayer and Kootenai County GOP's short-lived "Christian state" resolution in introducing us to museum backer Stan Lutz ...
The city of Hayden has commissioned a piece of public art, "Epiphany" by Hayden resident Michael Horswill, to be installed near the Hayden Library. DFO considers this another step forward as Hayden continues to identify & expand its downtown. But the public are haters are attacking in the thread under the CdA story about the public art. See below.
Dustin Hurst of the Idaho Reporter sums up in less than 140 tweetable characters the dogged uphill fight by Ilah Hickman to win state amphibian designation in Idaho for the giant salamander ...
The Senate Resources Committee has voted unanimously in favor of HB 1, the bill to designate the Idaho giant salamander as the state amphibian. The sponsor, 14-year-old Ilah Hickman – who’s pushed for the bill for the past five years – skipped her family’s spring…
DeePee Bond writes: "My father, Richard Milton Bond, slipped the hook this morning. Had he lived another month he would have been 94 but given his failing health, I would not have wished that on him. The whole family, even we kids, called him Dickie ..."
Lake City High School students will be helping restore native plants to Blackwell Island Recreation Area this week. Students in the school's advanced placement Environmental Science course helped sow the seeds in January for the new native plant and pollinator garden at the popular Lake Coeur d'Alene recreation site ...
The average teacher pay in Idaho dropped by more than $200 from 2012-13 to 2013-14 — a decrease that the state’s teachers’ union can’t explain. On average, only two states pay their teachers less than Idaho. But meanwhile, pay appeared to increase for Idaho “instructional...
AM Scanner Traffic (13 items) begins today with a false alarm re: residential fire across street from Garwood Elementary ...
Dennis brings up something that I've thought of often. If I had to do it over again, would I have pursued some things -- mainly competitive sports, in my case -- that resulted in blown knees & broken bones. Injuries that haunt me as I've aged. Dennis said he would have been just as wild despite the consequences. Do you agree?
In AM Headlines today, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl of Idaho has been charged with desertion and misbehavior in the face of the enemy for living his post in Afghanistan+Crapo to visit North Idaho+Post Falls dispatchers praised+wood products representatives are optimistic+Billings, Spokane vie for Big Sky tournament+more ...
A resolution, sponsored by Precinct 52 Committeeman Bjorn Handeen, was shot down without discussion last night at the monthly meeting of the Kootenai County GOP Central Committee. Handeen's resolution called for Republicans to support an action to "subtract the words" from the Idaho Human Rights...
Columnist Doug Clark of The Spokesman-Review uses a mock radio station, K-P-A-Y and a mock, old-time radio show ("Avista Happy Hike Hour!") to offer his thoughts on the latest request by Avista for a rate hike (the 8th in 8 years in the Spokane area). Enjoy
Complicated legislation to make big changes in Idaho’s tax system – lowering the top income tax brackets to 6.7 percent from the current 7.4 percent, while keeping lower brackets the same as they are now; removing the sales tax from groceries while eliminating the current…
Tuesday Poll: Overwhelmingly, Hucks Nation opposes a bill supported by all 5 North Idaho Republican senators and Reps. Sims, Barbieri & Cheatham on the House State Affairs Committee to use $2 million in taxpayers' money to fund an earlier GOPresidential primary in 2016. 203 of…
Dan of the CASA speaks for an overwhelming supermajority of us when he says that the $2 million that the Senate & House State Affairs Committee OK'd for an early GOPresidential primary is "completely wasteful." And our three Kootenai County reps Sims, Barbieri & Cheatham (oh my) signed off on it, as did all 5 North Idaho senators. F'shame ...
Shoshone Conservative has an interesting observation re: our three-term governor, whose administration has stumbled from one costly snafu into another. He's not the puppet master orchestrating things behind the scenes. He's Warren G. Harding who is disengaged and has surrounding himself with less-than-competent hired hands ...
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.
