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Wild Card — 1/31/09

As far as I'm concerned Winter 2008-09 ends Monday, Feb. 2. Groundhog's Day has always been special for me. That's the day my late father was born, in 1921. Mentally, I tell myself that Groundhog's Day means winter's back is broken, whether or not Punxutawney Phil sees his shadow. Of course, that strategy didn't work last year as Winter 2007-08 went on forever. But it seems to be on the money this year. As we begin a new day, I just heard on the scanner that there's a one-vehicle rollover in the e/b lanes of I-90 @ M/P 8 that has injured 2 people. On the national scene, a tour bus crash near the Hoover Dam has killed 7 Chinese nationals here. Tom Daschle, the cabinet nominee for HHS, has failed to pay $128,000 over the last 3 years here. The mother of the California octuplets was hoping for one more girl here. And the Wild Card is in play ...



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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