Huckleberries Best of the Northwest — 8/30/05
Shannon Sullivan greets a supporter outside Spokane City Hall as the official recall campaign to oust Mayor Jim West kicked off/Brian Plonka, Spokesman Review photo.
Organizers to recall Spokane Mayor Jim West say they'd collected about half the signatures they needed by noon Monday. And they collected another 600 during a four-hour stretch Monday afternoon here. Related: Contributors for and against the recall effort against Spokane Mayor Jim West can contribute as much money as they want here.
1. Cartoonist David Horsey/PI and "the rising economic tide" here.
2. The Missoulian doesn't like that proposal from Nature mag the envisions rescuing wild animals from war-torn, disease-ravaged Africa and (drum roll, puh-Leez) relocating them in eastern Montana and other Great Plans states here.
3. Asian-American students and community leaders are disgusted with the Human Rights Commission report re: a well-publicized incident involving two WSU basketball players accused of harassing a student who worked at the college's Multicultural Center here.
4. A blond bombshell from Tacoma is making it big as an actress and as the face of Germany's St. Pauli's Girl beer, according to the Tacoma News-Tribune, (free subscription required) here.
5. With gas prices going out of sight, a group of thieves risked 6-foot razor-wire-topped fences to make off with 130 gallons from a Spokane business here.
6. IMHO-NW: Bill Virgin/PI (Billboards still big business), D.F. Oliveria/Spokesman-Review (Thumbs up for school dress codes), Seattle Times (Starbucks' off-the-cup opinions), Nicole Brodeur/Seattle Times (Miss America Pageant's move), and Art Thiel/PI (His best stories weren't written).
*The Tacoma News-Tribune (free subscription required) provides a PAC-10 conference preview, picking WSU to finish fifth, here.
*Killings of 2 Bellingham sex offenders may have been work of vigilante here.
*Teen mauled by grizzly in Glacier National Park improving here.
*A Washington prison guard faces charges for allegedly urinating on an Olympia jail computer here.
Orbusmax provides the rest of the Northwest here.
