Parting Shot -- 2.27.17 3
Jordan Horowitz holds up the envelope that reveals "Moonlight" as the winner of the award for best picture at the Oscars on Sunday at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
MONDAY, FEB. 27, 2017
Wild Card/Monday -- 2.27.17 9
What a whacky weekend. First, BYU stomps are hopes and dreams by upsetting Gonzaga at home in the regular season WCC finale Saturday night and then Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, with considerable help from someone off stage, botch the biggest Oscar moment of them all Sunday night.
PM Scanner Traffic -- 2.27.17
Scanner Traffic for Monday PM (15 items & counting) includes pursuit by several officers of suicidal male on Highway 95, now near Silverwood and 3-vehicle crash near Carlin Bay that includes vehicle hitting someone who got out of car to check crash ...
Cutline Contest -- time2vote 12
The Cutline Contest today features the monster flub that occurred at the Oscars last night -- when "La La Land" was announced as winner of best picture when, in fact, "Moonlight" had won. Weekend Winner: DFO.
Study: Humans cause 1/2 of NW wildfires 4
A first-of-its-kind analysis of wildfire records from 1992-2012 showed that humans started 84 percent of all wildfires nationwide. In northwestern states — including Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and Montana — humans started about half of all wildfires.
Dogwalk: Hollywood shouldn't preach 25
Dogwalk Musings was amused at all the vitriol tossed at the Trump administration by Hollywood at the Oscars last night. Sure, Dogwalk says, Trump has made mistakes in his opening weeks in office. But Hollywood flubbed up big time at the Oscars, not just at the end, but twice. And it has had a whole year to prepare for the event.
Huckleberry Friends -- 2.27.17
The daily roundup of social media links from the HucksOnline blogosphere includes an encounter by Slight Detour at Sandpoint's Statue of Liberty. Also: Looters/Fort Boise, Friends/Faithful Geek, Hate crimes/Bay Views, Your weekly planner/On Tap, Scablands waterfalls roar/Outdoors, Electronic & the ding/Simple Mind ...
The beauty of 'hip' seasons 1
While many of us are grousing about the extended winter, JoJo K Nihili, of Spokane, loves the mixture of weather during the "hip" seasons of the year, including this one.
House OKs motorcycle profile ban 7
The House has voted unanimously in favor of HB 123, Rep. Robert Anderst’s bill to ban “motorcycle profiling.”
Thank you, BNSF 14
Some weren't here and many don't remember the drawn-out battle, inevitably won by the BNSF PR team, to locate a diesel re-fueling station in the Hauser area. At the time, Tom Wobker, The Bard of Sherman Avenue provided his thoughts in 12 words ...
Huckleberries Past: Sneak peek
From the annals of Kootenai Grapevine/Huckleberries history (Feb 13, 1989), we find out what a judge wears under her black robe.
Hanging out 1
As ice on the lakeshore melts, seagulls seem to be the only creatures willing to test it out. Don Sausser provides this Facebook photo.
AM Scanner Traffic -- 2.27.17
Scanner Traffic for Monday AM (9 items & counting) includes to Road Ragers in a white Audi with Washington plates who flipped off a pedestrian in CdA ...
My life starring Huckleberry 5
Mrs O and I were walking Huckleberry near the bathrooms at City Beach when a man named Marvin stopped to ask, "Are you Dave?" I said, "Yes," adding did you recognize me by that old photo that they run with my column? He said, "No, I recognize Huckleberry." Q: Are you ever recognized in association to another person, or even a pet?
2017 Oscars
Remember The Bard provides us with an amusing follow to the 89th annual Academy Awards in which presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty messed up best picture, with more than a little help from the Academy.
Edit: Adjourn Legislature ASAP
"The Idaho Legislature appears to be on track for a March 24 adjournment. Is there any way they could get out of town by March 4? Or even sooner?" asks an Idaho Press Tribune (Nampa/Caldwell) editorial. The 2017 Legislature is one of the most unproductive Legislatures in a long line of unproductive ones.
Poll: Disagree with Trump bathroom rule 5
In the Weekend poll, a solid majority of Hucks Nation disagreed with the move by President Trump to dump the bathroom guidelines imposed for transgender students a public schools that was imposed by former President Barack Obama. Today's Poll: Do you agree w/President Trump's plan to shift $58B in federal spending to the military budget?
AM: Dolezal nearly homeless 18
AM Headlines: Rachel Dolezal, the one-time leader of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP who pretended to be black, is now nearly homeless, according to Britain's The Guardian newspaper. Also: Gonzaga slides to No. 4/SR, County moves to staff expanded jail/Press, United to add Spokane service to Chicago, SF/SR
Malloy: IACI still has clout, but ...
At one time, the Idaho Association of Commerce & Industry was a powerful lobbying organization at the Idaho Legislature. Chuck Malloy of Idaho Politics Weekly comments that IACI still has clout but not nearly as much today ...
Trump to hike military spending $54B 26
President Donald Trump will propose a federal budget that dramatically increases defense-related spending by $54 billion while cutting other federal agencies by the same amount, according to an administration official. The Associated Press reports ...
Press: Vote 'yes' on bond, levy 1
The Coeur d'Alene Press offers solid reasons why patrons in the Coeur d'Alene School District should vote "yes" on both the bond and/or levy measures facing them in the Coeur d'Alene, Post Falls, Lakeland, Kootenai and Plummer-Worley school districts.
Trib: Idaho representatives don't 3
In a weekend editorial, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune chuckles at Idahoans who think their congressional representatives, who eschew townhall meetings, actually represent the will of the people.
Malek, Amador host townhall 1
Education and liquor licenses were the hot topics of Saturday's town hall meeting with Idaho Representatives Paul Amador and Luke Malek. More than 80 community members showed up. Bethany Blitz/Coeur d'Alene Press reports.
Zags suffer 1st regular season loss 9
Gonzaga was denied a place in school history Saturday when the game Brigham Young University upset the Zags in the regular season finale. Jim Meehan/SR reports that Gonzaga's goals remain the same despite the heart-breaking loss in the final game of the West Coast Conference regular season.
Huckleberries: They're all around us, scarier than Poltergeist 1
Huckleberries print returns to its roots today by anchoring the local section of The Spokesman-Review. For decades, Huckleberries was a fixture on the Monday front page of the local section. Today begins a Monday through Thursday run for Huckleberries. Today's column focuses on California immigrants and Poltergeist.
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.