Hot Potatoes Log (1/3/05)
6:29 p.m. Dang. I planned to turn over a new leaf by getting home by 5:30 each day. Good thing my wife and daughter are in Spokane spending what's left of the Christmas money, or I'd hear about it. Then, mebbe it isn't a good thing that they're in Spokane spending what's left of my Christmas money.
6:15 Big Boss called to say he preferred the use of the term "well-heeled" to "finicky" to describe Concealed Businesses of North Idaho in the last paragraph of my editorial that'll run Tuesday morning.
3:44 p.m. I found two interesting conditions placed on the BNSF refueling depot by Kootenai County commissioners who approved the project in March 2000: Come up with an alternate source of drinking water should diesel foul the water that flows from the taps of 400,000 residents in Kootenai and Spokane counties; and bring all operations to an immediate halt if pollution were to show up in ground water.
1:30 p.m. I'm up for tomorrow to do an editorial on the challenges facing the new Kootenai County Board of Commissioners.
10:55 a.m. Two Hayden Biblers approached me at church Sunday, unsolicited, to denounce the county for allowing BNSF to build a refueling depot over the Rathdrum aquifer -- and to say that they believe the railroad eventually will contaminate our drinking water. My guess? They speak for many.
9 a.m. Lewis-Clark State College called to see if it could house an afternoon class this semester, one day per week, in our large conference room downstairs. The conference room is for in-house users and non-profits, but I'm pushing to see if we can make this work. It's a worthy cause.
8:42 a.m. Phil Corless, UI fan and good-guy fellow blogger, checked in with the first Hot Potatoes comment of aught-5 by taking a jab at the Boise State Broncos under this morning's Best of the Northwest feature.
8:15 a.m. I'm back at the desk after a two-week layoff. Dunno if I still remember how to write. Shaddup! But I'm rarin' to bring you the first Hot Potatoes of the New Year. I'm going to start with the Best of the Northwest (ETA: 9 - 9:15 a.m.) and break up the Quick Fix 6 into individual items throughout the day.
