I can't believe how fast the weekend went. Warp speed fast. I'm beginning to suspect that weekend days don't have the full 24 hours in them that other days do. The weather was picture perfect for a fall day, as it is today. The week...
A man looks at television screens as Russian President President Vladimir Putin addresses the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Moscow, Russia, Monday. Addressing the U.N. General Assembly gathering of world leaders, Putin said it was a “huge mistake” not to engage the Syrian army in the fight against the Islamic State group.
... from Jeanna Hofmeister (aka "Baggy-Eyed in Bayview") that Foghorn Leghorn has been muzzled -- or possibly worse. Jeanna? She's the long-suffering Bayview resident who has an urban farmer neighbor who added a rooster to his collection of chickens and ducks -- a rooster, whom…
Scanner Traffic for Monday PM (21 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic w/19 more items) ...
The Cutline Contest today features a boxer named Hanzo surfing at the Unleashed Surf City Surf Dog contest in Huntington Beach, Calif. Weekend Winner: Fort Boise.
In an editorial Saturday, the Spokesman-Review Editorial Board said that Idahoans should be given a chance to vote on a proposal to lower state university and college tuition by increasing the state tax on cigarettes by $1.50 per pack. However, the state Legislature may stand in the way of this important issue.
"Lies People Tell Me: "You can't miss it. It's easy to find." Navigational Impairment is real. I'm going to start a support group" -- Cindy Hval via Facebook. Question: Are you navigationally impaired?
Marianne Love/Slight Detour and her husband, Bill, returned to Smith "Crick" in Boundary County for the first time since the fires of summer 2015 burned through the region. Marianne writes: "As we passed by the fire area, both going and on our return...
The women using the powder room at Super 1 this afternoon must have wondered why someone was laughing hysterically in a nearby stall. Seems Darcy Johnson of Rathdrum had place her purse on the toilet paper dispenser and -- viola -- it took a header into the toilet. Straight shot. All net. Er, water. That tickled Darcy's funny bone.
The daily roundup of links from Huckleberries Online blog roll includes a photo of Pope Francis and the pope-mobile at Independence Square in Philadelphia Saturday, taken by a Huckleberries Online commenter.
More than 170 sorority members from Washington State University volunteered their time recently to pitch in and clean litter from Tubbs Hill. The public service activity was provided by the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. “We wanted to help give back to the community and clean...
Jim Watson of Coeur d'Alene was out with All Rivers and Saltwater Charters fishing for albacore tuna with a live anchovie when he landed the 36-pound opah, also known as moonfish, sunfish, kingfish, redfin ocean pan or Jerusalem haddock. The current record is 28.18 pounds caught in 2013. All this, according to Rich Landers/Outdoors.
No matter how long you've been loyalty to a company, like the phone company, they'll send you a threatening demand letter the moment you're late paying for a bill. Cathy Hedberg of the Lewiston Tribune occasionally is treated with such threatens when she procrastinates with bill payment.
SR photographer Kathy Plonka was on hand this morning when a moose stopped by Hauser Lake to quench its thirst. Question: When/where did you last see a moose up close & personal?
AM Scanner Traffic for Monday (19 items & counting) includes grass fire started by transients accidentally, off Appleway, between Lowe's and Winco ...
Aging gracefully is a choice that takes courage and the ability to embrace change, advises award-winning actress Linda Evans who is known for playing Krystle Carrington in the 1980s drama “Dynasty.” Evans is keynote speaker for Boomers and Beyond: Aging Successfully Conference on Friday and Saturday at the Spokane Convention Center.
Idahoans are split on the idea of reducing the two-thirds supermajority requirement for school bonds. 49% oppose any change, according to an Idaho Politics Weekly poll. 44% would like to see the supermajority dropped to a simple majority.
Sheriff Mitch Alexander of Shoshone County Facebooks: "To say our state has a crisis with mental illness would be an understatement. The centers are so overloaded, that recently we've had to Transport patients back and forth to Boise. (And yet some North Idaho legislators fought against funding for regional mental health center ...)
Fake service dogs -- the pets that some owners take into stores and businesses under the ruse that they are legitimate aids -- are causing problems. Individuals like Carl Bessent, who is blind and truly needs his trained service dog by his side, is irritated by the growing ruse of people who exploit the law to take their pets with them everywhere.
Pope Francis on Monday appeared to side with a Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses, saying government employees should have the “human right” to object to acts that violate their beliefs. “Conscientious objection must enter into every judicial structure, because it is a right,” he told reporters earlier today.
Kailamai Hansen, a former foster child who grew up in Kellogg, has beaten long odds to become an author planning on a legal career. In her book, "Out of the Darkness, My Journey Through Foster Care," Hansen describes the years of physical and emotional abuse, as a message of hope to the troubled children of Idaho.
In the weekend poll, A plurality of Hucks Nation supported House Speaker John Boehner's decision to resign. Today's Poll: Do you have a noise problem in your neighborhood?
In a Lewiston Tribune editorial this weekend, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase comments that state ownership of public lands would bring more fees and fences -- and that average Idahoans would lose access to some of it.
In his Sunday column in the Lewiston Tribune, conservative Michael Costello says liberals in this country want us to rescue Syrian refugees as long as they don't get their hands dirty in the process.
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.
