Huckleberries Best of the INland Northwest — 10/6/05

‘Tis The Season: Robert Young gets a flu shot from Sue Meeker, a grocery store pharmcy manager, in Salem, Ore., earlier today/APhoto.

Breaking News: The Spokane County elections department has validated enough signatures to make Mayor Jim West face a recall election here . For an earlier version, here .

1. Eric Devericks /Seattle Times provides a sense of how angry some R’s are over the Hariet Miers’ nomination here .

2. For the first time in the United States, federal investigators in Spokane have obtained indictments against eight people accused of operating Internet-based diploma mills, making millions by selling bogus college degrees and “defrauding consumers worldwide,” according to Bill Morlin /Spokesman-Review, here .

3. A woman is being investigated in the discovery of a dead newborn baby in a bathroom at a rest area between Ritzville and Sprague on Interstate 90 here .

4. Did you know that churches will observe National Porn Sunday this weekend? And a church in Sandpoint, Idaho, will be among those that addresses the taboo topic here .

5. The Torch bikini bar, which has two locations in Boise and one in Coeur d’Alene, is causing concern as it plans to expand into Nampa here .

6. IMHO-NW: Curtis Campbell /EWU Easterner ( West, do us favor, resign ), Daily Inter Lake ( Smoking ban’s time has come ), Bert Caldwell /Spokesman-Review ( Good corporate governance pays dividends ), John Blanchette /Spokesman-Review ( “Cardiac Kids” of ‘65 return ), and Bud Withers/Seattle Times ( PAC-10 fond of instant replay ).

Poll: 66% of 927 respondents to a Boise Idaho Statesman poll said they didn’t hunt.

*Eastern Washington U trains Iraqi educators here .

*UI prez Tim White won’t let science department teach “Intelligent Design” here .

*2 Washington state scientists, including a volcano expert, are killed when truck loses load of logs here .

*Gonzaga Prep alum leaves school $3.4M here .

Orbusmax provides the rest of the Northwest here .