This photo of the new Idaho NRA license plates are posted on Free In Idaho's blog. It's one of four new plates introduced in Idaho. As an extension of the theme, you can also read Free In Idaho's post about "An Evening Hunt" here.

Spotlight: Dean Miller, former SR colleague turned Idaho Falls Post Register editor turned Nieman Fellow, contacted HBO to tout a two-part PBS Expose feature on his newspaper's award-winning investigative coverage of alleged pedophilia by local Boy Scout leaders, beginning tomorrow night. More here.

1. Idaho Senator Larry Craig has a critical court appearance set for tomorrow in Minnesota - as he tries to get his guilty plea to disorderly conduct reversed. Craig says he will not make an appearance at the hearing in that Minnesota courtroom tomorrow/KTVB here.

2. Picture this: Young twin brothers grow up next to a California freeway and spend their leisure time watching CHiPS, a TV show about the adventures of motorcycle cops. They make guns from Lego blocks and wood scraps, and tear around on tricycles. Fast forward a couple of decades: They're still at it, but now it's for real/Cass Friedman, Twin Falls Times News here.

3. Online Poll: A plurality of 47% of 622 respondents to a Lewiston Tribune poll say: Sen. Larry Craig's "waffling is disgraceful and he should quit by the end of the month."

4. News Roundup: Post Falls man dies in train crash/Coeur d'Alene Press; Idaho 4th- and 8th-graders outperform nation/Idaho Statesman; Ex-Boise mayor Coles speaks about City Hall scandal/KTVB; Treasure Valley commute time almost that of Las Vegas, Seattle/Twin Falls Times-News; and Otter moves energy office to direct oversight/Twin Falls Times-News.

5. Blogosphere: No. 2 in Idaho, but why? Adam's Blog; Craig: The nature of the offense/Randy Stapilus, Ridenbaugh Press; Idaho NRA vehicle plates/Free In Idaho; Wesley Clark endorses LaRocco/Mountain Goat Report; and It's all Latin to me/The Political Game.

6. IMHO-Idaho: Craig seeks what he doesn't support/Adam Cohen, New York Times; Bringing hazing into open/Savannah Cummings, UI Argonaut; New numbers ratchet up anti-wolf rhetoric, Kevin Richert/Idaho Statesman; Pre-K shouldn't fall prey to legislative feud/Idaho Statesman; and Family values shot to hell/T.J. Tranchell, UI Argonaut.

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