HBO’s INorthwest Roundup — 2/23/09

Bette Largent touches up the Looff Carrousel’s horse saddles with brown paint last week. Largent, a professional carousel horse restoration artist, takes care for the historic Looff Carrousel, which is celebrating is 100th birthday this year. Read Cindy Hval’s SR story re: the restoration of the Looff Carrousel here . Colin Mulvany/SR.

• Cartoon: Here they come again /David Horsey, Seattle P
• I WSU QB arrested on alcohol charge /KXLY
• Spokane Mayor Verner raps about Lilac City /Huckleberries Online
• WSU frat says goodbye to baby alligator /AP
• Richert: Stimulus money must be discussed in open /Idaho Statesman
• Ex-Gov. Batt lauds Demo Minnick for stimulus opposition /Eye On Boise
• Orbusmax Special: Oregon to consider driver ban on hand-held cell phones here .

Question: When did you last ride on a carrousel?

• Tight times leave fewer jobs for people with disabilities /Idaho Statesman
• Otter warns of fiscal recklessness with stimulus money /Idaho Statesman
• Great Falls crew paints jet used by Arab royalty /Billings Gazette
• Tribes push ex-Idaho AG EchoHawk for high-level post /Missoulian
• ‘Death with Dignity’ rules finalized /KHQ