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Huckleberries Best of the INorthwest — 10/4/05

After a gust of wind, a United States flag falls on Angela Carpenter, president of the Young Democrats on Campus, after she announced that Craig Cooper is running for Congress Monday at the Pond Student Union in Boise. Cooper, a Democrat, is challenging incumbent Republican Rep. Mike Simpson for Idaho's 2nd Congressional District seat next year/AP photo.

1. Eric Devericks/Seattle Times doodles re: Tom DeLay's effect on the Elephants here.

2. The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, which has a strong base along the U.S.-Mexico border, has started operating along Whatcom County's northern border to watch for people illegally entering the country from Canada, according to the AP here.

3. Fort Clatsop, a popular tourist attraction and replica of the compound where the Lewis and Clark expedition spent the soggy winter of 1805-1806 after reaching the Pacific, was destroyed by fire Monday night here.

4. Nearly 6,200 people, most of them Montana residents, have applied for the 24 licenses still available for Montana's first bison hunt in 15 years, according to the AP, here.

5. And you can find the 5 finalists for the Washington quarter here.

6. IMHO-NW: Doug Clark/Spokesman-Review ("Flightplan" irks real flight attendants), Gary Crooks/Spokesman-Review (Feds squander $$$ on no-bid contracts), Idaho Statesman (Idaho should gauge quake risks), Jamie Anson/WSU Daily Evergreen (Wealth of a nation), and Brett Walter/UI Argonaut (They protesteth too much).

Poll: 78% responding to a (Kalispell Daily Inter Lake) poll said that the federal Endangered Species Act should be revised.

*Central Valley High has joined a growing number of Spokane high schools in banning bump-and-grind "freak dancing" at school mixers here.

*Avista has pulled a controversial application to withdraw 2.9M gallons of water from the Rathdrum Aquifer here.

*A Washington state man has been banned for life from hunting in Idaho after pleading guilty to a felony poaching here.

*Spokane City Council pressures Mayor Jim West to release hard-drive computer info 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.