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Best of the Northwest — 6/2/05


In Kootenai County, Idaho, and neighboring Spokane County, Wash., the real estate market is a seller's one. See item below IMHO-NW.

Now that Spokane Mayor Jim West has appeared with Matt Lauer on the "Today" show, humorist Doug Clark/SR wonders what would happen if he turned to TV to redeem his rep-P-U-tation. Tongue firmly cheeked, Clark has "found" perfect roles for the beleaguered mayor on "American Idol," "SpongeBob SquarePants" and "Desperate Housewives," among others. Click here.

David Postman/Seattle Times blogs the Washington election trial here.

1. David Horsey/PI delivers another humorous middle-of-the-road toon today here.

2. Ex-Microsoft millionaires have pocketed their great wealth and gone bowling, among other things, as they experience life after computer software here.

3. Roda Bec, one of the lost children of the Sudan, survived a civil war, walking barefoot and naked across the Sahara Desert and 7 years in limbo as a refugee, only to be murdered by an ex-boyfriend while attending Western Washington University here.

4. Another close encounter with a bear in northwest Montana ends with the bear pushing up daisies here.

5. Animal activists were out for blood when a Spanaway, Wash., nurse appeared in court to answer charges that she poisoned her neighbor's cats with antifreeze here.

6. IMHO-NW: Steve Huffaker/Idaho Fish and Game (Apology for fishing license snafu), Jamie Kelly/Missoulian (Dying in the woods), Idaho Statesman (Whistleblowers' courage), Steve Kelly/Seattle Times (Good riddance to Koren Robinson), Tacoma News-Tribune (Weyerhaeuser rapped for market bullying).

*Drew Bledsoe, the Dallas Cowboys' QB and ex-WSU Coug, talks to the Walla Walla Union Bulletin about the parenting skills that led to his pending induction into the World Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame here.

*The housing market in Spokane and Kootenai counties continues white hot here.

*Boise's $220.3 million Powerball winner remains a mystery here.

For the rest of the Northwest, click Orbusmax here.



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.