I have mixed emotions after an election. On one hand, I'm glad all the shooting and fussing is over -- and that we know who the winners are. OTOH, I find it harder to feed the insatiable maw of the blog beast. Politics, after all,...
Mary Rose Holmes, one of The Plein Aire Cottage Artists, paints beach side cottages along Gulf Boulevard Thursday in Indian Rocks Beach, Fla. The group of three artists hopes to help preserve through art, the historical Gulf of Mexico beach front cottages.
Scanner Traffic for Thursday PM (22 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic with 19 more items) includes Officers are converging on the Pinevilla subdivision/Post Falls where 2 possibly wanted males evaded an officer who had gone to a mobile home court to arrest at least one of them on outstanding warrant.
Sisyphus outdid himself with a Christmas carol list for those brave, armed 3%ers who are willing to put their lives on the line to defend a Hayden man's right to upset his homeowners association. The list includes: "Hark, the Herald Stinger Missiles" and "Silenced Glock, Holy Glock." Feel free to add to Sis' list.
The Cutline Contest today features a boy from Virginia getting up close & personal with a northern hog sucker fish. Wednesday winners -- Dennis & Wedeln6969.
In her SR column, Jill Barville writes of receiving a cleverly crafted marketing letter from a travel company that praised her runner son to the max. It fed her ego. It fed her son's ego. But Jill noticed that the propaganda failed to mention the cost of her son traveling around the country with 300 or so other athletes. She deep-sixed the come-on.
At The Slice blog, Paul Turner tells of a recipe from New Zealand that calls for smashing potatoes that includes partially boiling them in their skins and use of olive oil, butter, lemon juice and herbs. Question: Do you have a way of preapring mashed potatoes that differs from the norm?
The daily roundup of links from Huckleberries Online blog roll includes: histling a new tune/On Tap, Road to Kilroy Bay/Slight Detour, Baby, it's cold outside/Simple Mind, A smashed potatoes serving suggestion/Slice, Wildfire benefits to habitat documented/Outdoors, & How you feel about M's during offseason defines you/Grip on Sports + more ...
A Boise coffee company that offers a blend with an edgy name has been snared by a national controversy involving the Washington Redskins mascot. See why the name of the blend from Big City Coffee is listed among sexy, derogatory or otherwise offensive names in "The Take Yo Panties Off Defense" brief offered by the Redskins.
"I'll go to jail before I remove a single light bulb off my house" -- Jeremy Morris, Hayden resident who is fighting his homeowners association re: his plans to erect a giant Christmas display in his front yard. Below, you can read a link to the KXLY story that provided this quote.
“People in private insurance die, just as people on government programs or no program” -- executive director Wayne Hoffman of Idaho Freedom Foundation, defending his diehard opposition to the expansion of the Medicaid program. Columnist Shawn Vestal looks at Hoffman's opposition in his column today.
Taylor Viydo/KREM 2 tweets that the 3%ers of Idaho showed up at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy Morris today offering to provide them with armed protection in their fight to erect a huge Christmas display in their Hayden subdivision. The 3%ers are, of course, the armed group that offered protection at military recruitment centers.
Spokesman-Review columnist Shawn Vestal tells us what Idaho's "Medical gap" looks like -- and how the clueless GOP legislators who reject common sense and refuse to expand Medicaid (almost all those in North Idaho) are hurting vulnerable lower-income Idahoans.
Remember that attack flier by the PAC calling itself "Responsible Coeur d'Alene" -- the one claiming that the council was only one vote short of "stopping the waste at ignite cda"? It appears to HucksOnline that, after the swearing-in of Ron Edinger and Dan English in January, that the council will be 6 votes short of dismantling ignite cda.
A visitor poses in front of Haystack Rock in Cannon Beach, Ore. Members of the Haystack Rock Awareness Program want the public to know the 235-foot-tall iconic rock, protected as an Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge and Marine Garden, is more for looking than for touching.
Scanner Traffic for Thursday AM (19 items & counting) includes fire engulfing load of hay and trailer of semi at Mica Creek Bridge, south of Coeur d'Alene.
In the Wednesday poll, a whopping 81% of Hucks Nation said it was satisfied with the municipal election results in its city. Today's Poll: Was the election of 2 pro-urban renewal CdA council members a positive referendum of ignite cda?
"I think the voters came out and voted for candidates who believe that urban renewal is a good (economic) tool, something that could move our community forward" -- Mayor Steve Widmyer, in Coeur d'Alene Press story. Question: Is Coeur d'Alene's urban renewal agency, ignite cda, finally safe?
AM Headlines for Thursday morning includes: Light snow reaches Inland Northwest/SR, 3 Spokane residents 2 face several charges/Press, Idaho reaches peak deer-collision season/EOBoise, Inmate civil rights lawsuits begin to drop/Eye on Boise, Hayden election victors have 'fresh faces, fresh ideas'/Press + more ...
A California jury on Wednesday evening awarded former Los Angeles Times sports columnist T.J. Simers $7.1 million over claims that the paper forced him out due to his age and a disability. So what does that have to do with Coeur d'Alene. Simers cut his teeth as the sports editor for the Coeur d'Alene Press.
Voters in Coos County, Oregon on Tuesday passed a measure that empowers the sheriff to prohibit local enforcement of state and federal gun laws he deems unconstitutional. The Oregonian reported that more than 60 percent of Coos County voters cast ballots in favor of a "Second Amendment Preservation Measure."
A novel that chronicles the difficult transition to American culture by a family from India contains descriptions of sexual conduct that are too explicit for high school seniors, a Coeur d’Alene School District book review committee says. Last year, the committee unsuccessfully recommended removal of Steinbeck's 'Of Mice & Men'.
Commenter Bubba contends that Councilman Dan Gookin ran unopposed and won re-election because he has moderated his views during the course of his first term in office. Quoth: "He also makes courageous votes and is not governed by a hardline ideology, like his support of the anti-discrimination ordinance." Do you think Gookin has changed?
Idaho is becoming famous for its exercises in task force futility. Two years ago, writes Marty Trillhaase/Lewiston Tribune, the public lands task force began meeting with visions of federal lands takeover dancing in its collective head. Until it discovered the state couldn't take over said lands. Now reality has hit the tax reform task force.
Wouldn't Christie Wood make a good Coeur d'Alene councilwoman? asked an SR colleague this AM. Indeed, she would, I responded. But she's serving her community well now on the NIC board and the human rights task force. So here's the question: What community role would you like to see Christie take on next, now that she's near retirement?
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.
