Huckleberries Best of the INorthwest — 10/4/06
A memorial service is scheduled Monday for former U.S. Rep. Helen Chenoweth-Hage (shown at an EPA hearing above in a Jesse Tinsley photo) in Meridian here. You can read my editorial and a column note about Helen here and here. KTVB/Boise provides more coverage a link for details of the accident that claimed Chenoweth-Hage's life here.
Eye On Boise: Get a look at those "Jimmy Pennies" being handed out by lt. gov. wannabe Larry LaRocco and other Idaho D's here.
1. House Speaker Dennis Hastert doesn't smell the load of decaying fish that he's been handed, according to David Horsey/Seattle PI, here.
2. Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich confirmed Tuesday that his officers searched the wrong house last week when a detective got one digit of a telephone number wrong here.
3. At first glance, spending $400,000 of federal salmon recovery money to buy an automatic sprinkler system for a golf course appears to be a shot out of bounds. But salmon recovery experts say the plan to irrigate the Salmon Valley Golf Course from three new wells rather than from the Lemhi River in central Idaho will benefit salmon here.
4. Two significant holdings at the Washington State University Museum of Art are deteriorating so badly that they cannot be properly displayed and may be lost altogether here.
5. James Flavel, the Democratic candidate for Spokane County sheriff, was sued by his ex-wife for not paying child support in the 1980s, was under a temporary court order in 1993 for allegedly harassing a former girlfriend and pursued by a collection agency for not making payments on a computer here.
6. IMHO-NW: John Blanchette/Spokesman-Review (Ex-Coug Swogger leads UMontana), Chelsea Wreden/WSU Evergreen (Christian speakers harmed campus), Gregory Taylor/New West (Chenoweth's real legacy), Travis Galloway/UI Argonaut (Reality of the Long War), and Bruno Baltodano/WSU Evergreen (An illusion of voting for Martin Stadium).
Online Poll: A plurality of 17.6 and 15.9 percent of 1098 respondents to an Idaho Statesman poll want to see the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series.
*A Seattle woman pleaded guilty to charges Wednesday in a firebombing at the University of Washington's horticulture center in May 2001 here.
*Tip by small-town Washington police chief leads to arrest of serial bank robber here.
*A Washington State Patrol trooper who asked for a woman's phone number for his personal use was put on paid leave here.
*A proposal by the small Canyon County town of Greenleaf, Idaho, to require all households to bear arms is getting national attention here.
Orbusmax Special: Demo dirty trick in Oregon House race causes Oregonian to switch endorsement here.
