Dave Oliveria

Patriots Set Summer Farragut Confab

spokesman.com — It looks like Sheriff Richard Mack, the Northwest Patriots and others are planning for a major confab in Farragut State Park at the end of July. Dunno who's organizing this locally. Question: Anyone know why Mack and the Patriots are staging this event at Farragut?

Silver Valley Rejects Urban Renewal

spokesman.com — Shoshone County overwhelmingly rejected formation of an urban renewal agency to attract mining related businesses to the area. By a vote of 965 against to 332 for, the county turned thumbs down on the idea, promoted by Commissioners Larry Yergler. Who wanted to create an urban renewal district in Big ...

Huckleberries Online

spokesman.com — It's time for Winners & Losers -- the game Huckleberries Online plays after every election. The goal of the game is to pick the winners and losers from the election the day before. I'll get us started. Obviously, those who actually won elections were the winners. But there are a ...

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spokesman.com — About 100 people supporting the Myrtle Beach Tea Party protest at the Internal Revenue Service office in Myrtle Beach, S.C. on Tuesday. Tea party activists held rallies outside federal buildings across the country Tuesday to protest the agency's extra scrutiny of conservative groups. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/The Sun ...

Poll: IRS Scandal Will Stick Most

spokesman.com — Tuesday Poll: Hucks Nation sez the scandal that will stick with the Obama administration longest is the one involving the IRS targeting of the Tea Party. 50 of 132 respondents (37.88%) said that was the worst of the current scandals, followed by the uncertainty over Affordable Health Care (30 of ...

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spokesman.com — Columnist T.F. Charlton of the British Guardian newspaper opines on "The Thaw," a video produced in Kootenai County by Gary Brown's Reach America organization that has gone viral: Fears of marginalization because of Christian faith, even persecution, have deep roots in white American evangelical culture, dating back to the Scopes ...

Otter Not Planning To Spend Surplus

spokesman.com — Gov. Butch Otter is rejecting the notion that a projected $162 million in unexpected revenue means the 2014 Legislature should aim to boost spending. Otter said he’s “bound and determined that the government is not going to grow back at the same rate that the economy grows” and said the ...

Huckleberries Online

spokesman.com — Coeur d'Alene residents who have watched with growing concern as archconservatives have stolen one local government seat after another should celebrate today. The radicals of the Hard Right who have targeted the Lake City and Kootenai County for political takeover were stopped in their tracks last night. Reagan Republicans lost ...

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spokesman.com — D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was selected as the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And as the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society of Professional Journalists.