Best of the Local Blogs

*Freshman sponsor Joyce Broadsword was a no-show today as a Senate committee killed a bill that would have required bicyclists to stop and stay at stoplights, according to Our Woman In Boise Betsy Russell (pictured). Sheriff’s Capt. Ben Wolfinger of Kootenai County had to take the hits from opponents of the measure. Click here .

* Tony Rosen / I Am Always Right links to a site (for his liberal readers) that shows down to the second how much longer Dubya will be in office. The countdown is now at 1,441 days, 3 hours, 30 minutes and 30 seconds here .

* Kristin Hoppe /Not So Fast provides links to a story that’s white-hot in the blogosphere, but has failed to make it into the mainstream press — an accusation by CNN’s Eason Jordan who claims, without providing evidence, that he knows of 12 journalists who were killed in Iraq by coalition forces here .

* Phil Corless /The Old Goat Trail provides a link to an interview with UI AD Rob Spear , in which Spear sez that a new basketball gym and basketball will be higher priorities than a new Kibbie Dome here .