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Huckleberries Best of the INorthwest — 10/3/05

WSU linebacker Will Derting grabs his knee late in the game against Oregon State. Derting suffered a sprain and is questionable for the next few games/SR photo by Christopher Anderson. See Item No. 4.

1. David Horsey/PI takes after Louisianans/Mississippians who hate gummint on one level but have their hands out when the hard times roll in. here.

2. Before the abuse-of-power scandal broke in early May over Mayor Jim West's offers of jobs and appointments to young men he met on a gay Web site, West was stressing the development of "leaders of character" at City Hall. Some of the "character development" overtures had strong moral themes, according to Karen Dorn Steele, here.

3. After Metropolitan Mortgage declared bankruptcy and stripped 10,000 investors of $450 million, Paul Sandifur, ex-CEO and former Spokane jumbo, high-tailed it to the Mexican border where he's selling real estate here.

4. Looks like WSU is back to Couging it, as it coughed up a lung in the second half to Oregon State and lost two starters on defense, to boot, here. Meanwhile, SR columnist John Blanchette sez WSU's performance reminds him of the Bad Old Days here.

5. In the much ado about nothing dept., the Coeur d'Alene School Board has to apologize to parent Randy Tetzner for accidentally locking him out of a meeting two years ago here.

6. IMHO-NW: D.F. Oliveria/Spokesman-Review (CDA election change attracts wannabes), Doug Clark/Spokesman-Review (Cop-owned drug houses would be a hit), Coeur d'Alene Press (Top issue: Growth), Dan Popkey/Idaho Statesman (Learning about Idaho), and Daily Inter Lake (Hunting: Our heritage, our Montana).

Poll: 52% of 1,035 responding to an Idaho Statesman poll sez Idaho isn't doing enough to ensure hunters' access to public and private lands.

*Constitutionalist Steve Aver would rather fight than bathe here.

*Meridian man charged with trying to sell HIV-infected blood here.

*Gov. Dirk Kempthorne submits 5 designs for the 2007 Idaho quarter to the U.S. Mint here.

*Football coach who led Montana to national prominence dies here.

Orbusmax provides the rest of the Northwest 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.