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Best of the Northwest (3/11/05)

Some like the idea of putting a state university in Spokane, but CEO Gary Livingston of Community Colleges of Spokane doesn't. He believes Spokane should work with EWU at Cheney and WSU at Pullman to find niches it can fill, according to Paula Silinger/The Easterner, here.

Photo: American Indian activist Gary Fox leads three hundred people in a march to the beat of his drum during a rally for Ward Churchill and free speech at Eastern Washington University Thursday afternoon. Churchill has been reinvited by EWU's Native American Student Association to speak on campus on April 5. Holly Pickett/SR.

1. David Horsey/PI makes a good point about some "compassionate conservatives" here.

2. For about $2,000 per year, Boise State Broncos fans will be able to drink beer, wine and liquor while they watch college football at Bronco Stadium as soon as 2008, according to The Idaho Statesman, here.

3. WSU footballer Kevin J. McCall Jr. was to appear in court today to answer charges in a third-degree rape case here.

4. The UI Argonaut offers mostly tongue-in-cheek advice to students on how to get the most out of spring break here.

5. Fallen Boeing CEO Harry Stonecipher lost $37.7 million as a result of an officer affair with another executive here.

6. IMHO-NW: Robert L. Jamieson Jr./PI ("Gunner Palace" documentary), Susan Paynter/PI (Gay.com), Danny Westneat/Seattle Times (Boeing's puzzling firing), David Yaden/Northwest Enviromental Watch (Revisiting energy saboteur Poulin), and The Olympian (Leave smoking bans to voters).

*Mother Nature claims another Idaho ski resort here.

*Boise State's stunning upset of top-seeded Nevada in the WAC tournament is reported here.

*Chuck Winder, a former Boise mayor wannabe, is about to name names in the smear campaign against him 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.