Googling North Idaho

*RuralNorthwest.com provides the wanted boys and girls from the Kootenai County sheriff’s warrant roundup here .

*Bonner County Repubs are up-in-arms about the $$$ pulled in by legislative wannabe Steve Elgar from out of state here .

*Frankly, I don’t know anything about the Eat-It Club and columnist Jane Rees of The Japan Times On Line, but, apparently, she and others visited Coeur d’Alene for a golf tournament recently. And she talks a lot about our town here .

* Matt Gipson , who averaged 16.3 points and 8.0 rebounds per game for North Idaho College last season, made his debut as a Hawaii Rainbow Warrior here .

*Oregon investors are dropping $32 million into two big Post Falls projects here .

*The North America Vexilological Association judged the flag for the city of Pocatello as the ugliest one of 150 in the country here . (OK, this isn’t North Idaho. But it’s still interesting.)

*The Green Bay Press-Gazette mentions a local girl who’s done well in North Idaho: Cynthia Blohowiak . You know her as Jim Hammond’s wife, Cyndie. And you can read all about her here .