Huckleberries Best of the INorthwest — 10/19/05
Breaking: Suspected serial killer Joseph Edward Duncan III (shown above with Shasta Groene shortly before a few hours before his capture) used his young captives to produce graphic child porn videos, authorities acknowledged for the first time today/Taryn Brodwater, Spokesman-Review, here.
2. Supreme Court nominee Hariet Miers is on the mind of cartoonist David Horsey/PI here.
3. Two days after a nightclub brawl that hospitalized Seattle Seahawks free safety Ken Hamlin with a blood clot on his brain, police have this to work with: a victim who has no memory of the attack, a violent felon found slain four hours after the fight and the brother of the dead man, himself a convicted felon, trying to connect the incidents, according to the Seattle Times, here.
4. A dead coyote in a mailbox, a bowel-relieving burglar and a naked man soliciting roadside sex in Spokane County have reinforced the belief that weird things happen during a full moon, according to Thomas Clouse/Spokesman-Revie, here.
5. Students in Washington and Idaho both did better than the national average in math and reading, according to the National Assessment of Educational Project results released today, here and here. respectively.
6. IMHO-NW: Bruce Ramsey/Seattle Times (Rossi: Learning from losing), Rebecca Nappi/Spokesman-Review (Shelter work not for everyone), Chuck Winder/Idaho Statesman (Highway fatalities: An epidemic), Art Thiel/PI (Seahawk Hamlin shoulda walked away), Dan Popkey/Idaho Statesman (Coroner can restore public confidence).
Coeur d'Alene Press Poll: Respondents almost equally worried about increases in property tax (34%), gas prices (33%) and heating fuel (26%).
*Three Idaho businesses will be on Inc. Magazine's 24th annual Inc. 500 when the list of the nation's fastest-growing privately owned companies is released today here.
*A retired couple from Polson, Mont., is turning old Burlington Northern Santa Fe cabooses into rentals here.
*Green buildings are catching on in Idaho here.
Orbusmax provides the rest of the Northwest here.
