Best of the Northwest (3/9/05)

One major lesson to be learned from the firing of Boeing CEO Harry Stonecipher (pictured), 68, is this: The e-mails you send from work are not private. That, and — if you’re going to have an affair with a co-worker, don’t send torrid e-mails over the company system. Bill McCrory /Whitecaps sends a link to a Seattle PI story discussing the rules of engagement with the company e-mail system here . And the paper IDs his 48-year-old lover here .

1. Doesn’t look as though Eric Devericks /Seattle Times was a Dan Rather fan here .

2. WSU prez V. Lane Rawlins discusses demands from student reps in the wake of campus disturbances re: discrimination against minorities here .

3. King County Prosecutor Norm Maleng is moving to revoke the voter registration of 99 felons believed to have cast votes illegally in the Washington gubernatorial election here .

4. The Idaho Farm Bureau is fighting a lonely battle as it tries to stop the historic Nez Perce water agreement, according to columnist Dan Popkey /Idaho Statesman, here .

5. Tell me where you’ve heard this one before — the city of Meridian, Idaho, is looking for a sense of identity as it eyes revitalizing downtown here .

6. IMHO-NW: Danny Westneat /Seattle Times ( L’Affaire Boeing ), Blaine Newnham /Seattle Times ( New M Adrian Beltre ), Richard Stallings & Larry LaRocco /Idaho Statesman ( Idaho Democrats ), Art Thiel /PI ( Rick Neuheisel settlement ), and Robert L. Jamieson Jr. /PI ( 7th-grader wiser than elders ).

*Shoppers will witness the end of an era Sunday when regional brand stores become Macys here .

*Candidates are lining up to replace defrocked ex-Idaho state senator Jack Noble of Kuna here .

*The final W.R. Grace Co. exec to be indicted last month was arraigned in Missoula federal court here .