Inside Huckleberries — 5/24/05

*I’ll be MIA from 10:15 to noon tomorrow because I’m part of a Leadership Coeur d’Alene media panel, discussing: “What do you do, how do you choose what you cover, what makes news?” How do you describe blogging? Other panelists are Traci Zeravica , KHQ TV executive, KVNI’s Dick Haugen .
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*More bad news for Mayor Jim West (to be in tomorrow’s paper): The Spokane Area Economic Development Council came out against Mayor West on Wednesday, and Ryan Oelrich is filing a complaint against West with the city Human Rights Commission. Also: Rob Galliher’s deposition is released today, detailing virtually verbatim the allegations he told the newspaper about the abuse of David Hahn and Jim West . Drip. Drip. Drip.
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*This afternoon, the SR’s CDA newsroom received some brownies from a CHS student with a note containing a smiley face. We were wary until one of the reporters mentioned that they’d been purchased at a local supermarket by one of the job shadows. At least they looked like store-bought brownies.
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*Blog numbers continue to nudge upward — 4722 for Monday, 91,000-plus pageviews for the month. HBO should be over 100,000 by tomorrow afternoon or early Thursday. Incredible. That’s a pace for more than 1 million for a year. Also, comments went over 300 again yesterday. Mebbe this thing’s addictive on both ends.
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* The Orb at Orbusmax, which is giving great play to my daily “Best of the Northwest” feature (check out blue highlight today here ), hangs out in the Puget Sound area, but he lived in Spokane until 1995. He’s turned me onto a conservative cartoonist from Lars Larson’s KXL site to balance Lefty David Horsey /PI in my Northwest roundups.