Best of the Northwest (2/4/05)
Timothy Borders, 29, a conservative Republican living in Seattle's University District, was in the right place at the right time. As lead plaintiff in the Republican lawsuit to overturn the Washington gubernatorial election result, his name will go down in history. Mebbe not to the extend as Roe of Roe v. Wade or Brown of Brown v. Board of Education, writes David Postman/Seattle Times. But Borders'll gain more than 15 minutes of fame from this one here.
Photo/Matt Cilley: Bethine Church, shown her looking at a photo of her late husband, former U.S. Sen. Frank Church, argues for the preservation of the Ada County Courthouse in IMHO-NW below today.
1. You can find a brilliant cartoon by Pulitzer Prize winning David Horsey/PI re: the split state of our union here.
2. Meanwhile, the following links will provide the latest on the Gregoire/Rossi struggle (from the PI): Key ruling on revote today here, State Patrol guarding Gregoire/Rossi here, and Gregoire at ease in guv's job here.
3. In the "Lost in the '60s" categories, a mob of Seattle Central Community College students are conspiring to keep military recruiters off campus after chasing them away a month ago here.
4. Dubya visited Montana yesterday to push his reform plan to allow younger workers to privatize part of their Social Security here. But U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Montana, was skeptical here.
5. The Idaho Statesman Sports Department has several suggestions for games to play while watching the Super Bowl with friends and family this weekend here (pdf required).
6. Bethine Church/Idaho Statesman (Keep Ada County Courthouse), Waylon Safranski/WSU Daily Evergreen (Coach Dick Bennett's "finger"), Danny Westneat/Seattle Times (Rick Neuheisel's lie), Joel Connelly/PI (U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell), and Robert L. Jamieson Jr./PI (Some bosses stiff returning troops).
*Mike Corrigan/Inlander previews Spokane International Film Festival here.
*Opera Idaho director leaving to take position in San Jose, Calif., here.
*E-mail from compliance director seen as key in Rick Neuheisel's trial here.
*Glacier National Park is under siege from all directions here.
