Wild Card -- Thursday (5/12/05)
Sorry to be running so late today, but that close encounter with BNSF has had me running behind all afternoon. You know what to do with the Wild Card ...
THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2005
Best of the Local Blogs (5/12/05)
Lust is lighting a fuse, love is keeping the dynamite dry -- Bob Salsbury/Unbearable Bobness of Being.*SidVicious/Idle Idahoan, the North Idahoan slaving behind the scene on Capitol Hill, has a first-hand account of the scare caused by that Cessna flying over D.C. yesterday here.*Bill McCrory/Whitecaps…
Afternoon Question (5/12/05) -- Humorless Liberals?
In a Vanity Fair article (no online access available), Michael Wolff, a liberal former columnist for New York Magazine, wonders why conservative media hold the edge over liberal media when it comes to humor. Quoth:Why aren't liberals funny?...The complicated condition for liberals...is that so much…
Editorial Board vs. BNSF IV (Final Exchange)
DFO: If another major spill occurs in the future, will you voluntarily shut the facility down or will we have to wait again for a judge to force you to shut down?BNSF (paraphrased somewhat): We're going to review everything we did. We've been in the…
Editorial Board vs. BNSF II
BNSFer asst. veep Steve Millsap re. the leaks: I’m embarrassed. I truly am. I’m disappointed. I’m very, very sorry this has happened. At the same time, the system worked. It was through our inspections and through our detection that we caught the problem. We have…
Best of the Northwest (5/12/05)
Gov-for-now Christine Gregoire isn't doing well in the polls. See Item No. 2.Regina Mourning deserved the Mother of the Year honors from the St. Maries Rotary Club. Regina? She's a 23-year-old who took on the responsibility of mothering three little girls when she married 6…
West, Spokane, S-R make front page ...
... of the LA Times with this headline here.Hat Tip: Howard Martinson, who observes: "Yikes! Is this the same Spokane I was born & raised in, and which put on a World's Fair in 1974? The Riverpark Square fiasco, really really really bad streets, and…
Inside Huckleberries (5/12/05)
2:09 p.m. I'm currently online for an editorial board meeting with BNSFers Gus Melonas, Mark Stahley and another guy. Opinion Editor Doug Floyd is grilling them pretty well. Now, here comes Becky Nappi, shifting gears. Stay tuned....1:43 p.m. SR Editor Steve Smith is hosting a…
SR Morning Headlines (5/12/05)
*City attorney asks for investigations: Move comes day after FBI begins investigation/Mike Prager, SR -- Gov. Gregoire's words of sympathy were nice.*Boys ranch director denies report: Finds no evidence that West, another deputy took boys on outings/Benjamin Shors, SR -- Interesting. (You can read the…
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.