Best of the Northwest (4/20/05)

Unabomber Ted Kaczynski is shown in this April 1996 booking mug shot taken at the Lewis and Clark County Jail in Helena, Mont. See Item No. 3.

If ballots cast by dead people, felons and illegal aliens weren’t county in the Washington gubernatorial election, a statistical analysis contends Republican Dino Rossi would have won by 100 votes, according to the PI, here .

1. David Horsey /PI prepares US Catholics to meet the new pope here .

2. Inc. Magazine ranks the Boise metropolitan area second in the nation on this year’s list of “Best Cities to Do Business in America,” according to Mike Maharry /Idaho Statesman, here .

3. The brother and one of the victims of the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski , underline their message of forgiveness with personal friendship here .

4. The historic Blackwell House on Sherman Avenue will become the Gozzer Ranch Golf and Lake Club HQ, according to the Coeur d’Alene Press, here .

5. EWU’s Easterner provides its report of the controversial Young Republican Bake Sale here . And young EWU femme Nicole Fisher offers her thoughts on the bake sale here .

6. IMHO-NW: Missoulian ( Protect gun manufacturers ), Robert L. Jamieson Jr. /PI ( Analysis of a hate crime ), Joel Connelly /PI ( Water tops agenda — finally ), Brian Baer /Easterner ( Why can’t we all just get along? ), and Art Thiel /PI ( Quirky Sonics ).