SR Morning Headlines

* Spokane Valley: a city in search of a nickname / Tom Lutey , SR — What, Mallville’s taken?

* A green winter for golf courses: With no snow, golfers flocking to play a round / Melodie Little , SR — Never played. Never will play. The closest I come to golf is the online Mousebreaker.com version. And I’m not particularly good at that.

* Drought looking likely: Record-low snowpack sets stage for trouble / James Hagengruber , SR — And if we had a lot of snow, we’d be wringing our hands about flooding. Is the weather ever perfect? It is what it is. The fire crews will have work this summer.

* PC manual for beginners may be slowly catching on: Hairdresser’s career shift yields guide for the computer novice / Taryn Brodwater , SR — This sounds like my speed — something simpler than Computers for Dummies.

* Prison overflow strains limits at some county jails: Shoshone County welcomes business while Kootenai considers another jail expansion to keep pace / Susan Drumheller , SR — This story answers the question to whatever happened to the guy who ran for governor and later was involved in a shootout with Bonner County deputies.