
Despite the continuing struggles of the newspaper business to stay afloat, I'd have to put 2009 into the win column here at Huckleberries Online. It didn't start that way, of course. As a result of the switch to a new system for S-R blogs, Huckleberries lost about 40 percent [...]

Monday, December 21 is the deadline for paying first installment of property taxes and Ada County Treasurer Cecil
Ingram tells the GUARDIAN collections are “just about the same as last year to date,” despite an ailing economy.
Of course, many tax bills are part [...]
In this June 11, 2009, file photo, Elin Nordegren talks to her husband, Tiger Woods during the first quarter of Game 4 of the NBA basketball finals in Orlando, Fla. Despite recent multiple allegations of marital infidelity, Woods has been selected by the AP as the athlete of the decade. You write the [...]
Despite brucellosis and chronic wasting disease, they can’t seem to kick this bad habit-
Wyoming group donates hay to feed elk this winter. AP in the Billings Gazette. [...] Despite its rocky start, the Burlington Northern Santa Fe refueling depot in Huetter received a nod of approval from the Kootenai County commissioners on Thursday. Continuing the conditional five-year compliance hearing that was tabled last week, the commissioners voted unanimously that the massive depot is in compliance with the conditions [...]
Item: BNSF depot in compliance: Commissioners agree to propose additional conditions for facility/Alecia Warren, Coeur d'Alene Press
More Info: Despite its rocky start, the Burlington Northern Santa Fe refueling depot in Huetter received a nod of approval from the Kootenai County commissioners on Thursday. Continuing the conditional five-year compliance hearing' [...]

CindyH: So. I got the dreaded “note from teacher.” Or in this case e-mail. It seems my 10-year-old was sent to the principal's office for “blurting out,” and “talking out of turn several times despite repeated warnings.” He's been sentenced to morning and lunch recess detention. (Keeping an [...]

This brings us to recent politics. There has been an explosion of debate surrounding Congress’s attempt to reform health care. Despite what some would say, free health care is not a right. I’m sorry, but you do not have the right to have your neighbor buy health insurance [...]
There's a great read at Kaiser Health News today on how two counties in rural Kentucky are delivering health services in the "worst health care region in America" and that despite the health care reform debate, some area experts don't anticipate much changing as a result of these current' [...]