Parting Shot -- 8.30.16 5
Miss Rhode Island, Shruti Nagarajan, waves as she is introduced during Miss America Pageant arrival ceremonies Tuesday in Atlantic City.
TUESDAY, AUG. 30, 2016
Wild Card/Tuesday -- 8.30.16 10
Mrs O has asked me several times this summer why I planted 6 early girl tomato plants, 2 cherry tomato plants, and one variety of giant tomato plants. This week, she pointed out smugly that we now are inundated with ripe tomatoes. I simply went into the back yard and picked about 20 of them.
PM Scanner Traffic -- 8.30.16
Scanner Traffic for Tuesday PM (20 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic with 18 more items) includes a warning from Taryn re: being stuck in traffic for 20 minutes in area of Highway 41/53, Rathdrum, as a result of chip-seal work. Taryn says to avoid intersection.
Cutline Contest -- Time2Vote 16
The Cutline Contest today features controversial San Francisco 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick during warmup exercises at NFL football training camp. Monday Winner: Uncle Bob.
Slice of Life 5
By day, Facebook Friend Darcy Johnson is a paralegal for Virginia Robinson's nonprofit legal firm, Attorneys Northwest. Also by day, she's a quick-thinking woman who saved another woman from a multi-vehicle crash and costly car repairs. (Question: Have you done something this heroic? Or had someone do it for you?)
Board to pick new Zone 5 NIC trustee
The NIC Board of Trustees has scheduled a special board meeting for 10 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 7, in the Edminster Student Union Building Driftwood Bay Room to interview candidates for the open seat in Trustee Zone 5 and to conduct a few related items of business.
Gfeller to challenge Banducci 6
Greg Gfeller, a long-time Avista Utilities manager, will challenge controversial North Idaho College Trustee Todd Banducci in NIC's new Zone 3 election. Gfeller, a long-time Avista Utilities operations director in North Idaho lives in Post Falls.
HBO Blogos: A trip to Naples
The roundup of the HucksOnline blogos today includes Slight Detour's photo tour of Bond Lake in the Naples, Idaho area. Also, On Tap provides an update on this week's local brew pub scene. The forecast for Idaho's big game season is good, according to Slight Detour. And Grip on Sports tells of the "hard knocks" on doors that're part of the NFL.
Quotable Quote 27
"Actually I think in order to call yourself a prepper you have to spend a month in the Frank Church wilderness with just a rifle and some matches" -- Facebook Friend Emily Walton. (Question: Do you think the Redoubters/preppers could survive if they were forced to give up their fat California government pensions?)
Do teen-agers come in 'herds'? 14
In this Facebook post, FBF Dave Chamberlain inserts the caption: "A herd of teen-agers perched on the rocky cliffs of Tubbs Hill." Dave snapped the photo recently while boating with a friend on Lake Coeur d'Alene. (Question: What noun would you use to describe a group of teen-agers? Herd? Flock? What?
Local man, Trump were schoolmates 1
According to Sandpoint resident Donald Kass, Donald Trump hasn’t changed a whole lot since he knew him as Donny Trump in grade school. "He was pig headed,” said Kass. The Sandpoint Reader has the story.
Here come the hobos (spiders) 6
"I want to know how in the hell a hobo spider the size of a small country was able to get inside the house" -- Taryn Thompson/Facebook. (Question: Hobo spiders in the house make me jump, too. How about you?)
UI accused of catching, killing wild cats 3
Two state agencies say the University of Idaho failed to seek approval for a program that trapped and euthanized 7 feral cats on campus.
Vets protest fitness program cut
Veterans gathered outside the Spokane Veterans Administration Medical Center Monday to collect signatures and protest the closing of a popular exercise program.
AM Scanner Traffic -- 8.30.16
Scanner Traffic for Tuesday AM (18 items & counting) includes unconfirmed report of a beaver that was trapped on Best Avenue this morning.
Medicaid expansion still scares R's 17
Even after months of hearings, overwhelmingly positive public comments and stacks of statistics showing Idaho would save millions, some state lawmakers remain reluctant to accept federal Medicaid expansion funds to close the state’s health coverage gap.
AM: Boise honors Olympian Armstrong 1
AM Headlines include a photo set of 5 photos of Boise honoring Olympic gold medalist Kristin Armstrong by naming a park after her. Also: Train hits, kills pedestrian near Samuels/ISP release, Cataldo homeowner helps nab robbery suspect/KHQ, UI accused of catching, killing wild cars w/o OK/KXLY + more ...
Spokane dumps Columbus Day 131
Supporters of changing Columbus Day to an October holiday honoring the contributions of indigenous people held signs, beat drums and dominated the discussion Monday night before the Spokane City Council approved the concept. (Question: Do you agree with this move?)
UIdaho, WSU study cancer that's killing tasmanian devils
UI, WSU and University of Tasmanian are studying a contagious cancer that has killed tens of thousands of the world's Tasmanian devils over the last 20 years.
Levies provide $720/student average 2
A report aired in the Legislature's Public School Funding Formula Committee shows that supplemental levies provide a statewide average of $720 per student.
Paying price for Kaepernick's insult 46
In a Facebook comment, Cindy gives SF 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick heck for dishonoring the American flag.
Columnist pulls plug after faux pas 17
Neal Larson, a conservative columnist in southern Idaho, has pulled the plug on his column after withering criticism he received in response to a critical, incorrect column about famed astrophysicist Neal deGrasse Tyson.
Poll: Not enthused by Redoubters 5
In the Monday poll, Hucks Nation indicated it isn't a fan of the survivalist American Redoubt movement that is beginning to rear its head in the Inland Northwest. Today's Poll: Do you agree with the Spokane council's decision to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day?
Stepfather held in 17MO's death
A 17-month-old boy from Coeur d’Alene died Monday from head trauma he allegedly suffered at the hands of his stepfather. Joseph J. Davis, 31, is expected to be charged with homicide in Kootenai County. He is being held in the Kootenai County Jail on $1 million bond.
Avista may cut Idaho bills 1
Avista’s Idaho customers could get a break on their natural gas bills, beginning Nov. 1. The Spokane-based utility filed a request with the Idaho Public Utilities Commission Monday for an adjustment in natural gas rates, based on lower wholesale gas prices.
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.