HBO’s Best of the Local Blogs — 4/3/06

Family Phil comes clean. He wasn’t on a fishing expedition the last few weeks. He was in Iraq delivering Crayolas. Click here .

Eye On Boise: Bob Nonini’s high school club permission bill passes the House 35-32, but it probably won’t get a hearing in the Senate here .

*Put your hands together for Kathy “Kick Shoe” Kooy , who not only is one of the Friends of Huckleberries bloggers from Ephrata, Wash., but she’s now written a column for the Seattle PI here .

* Bearable Bob reminds the commenters and blurkers in the blogosphere that blogging is hard work — so hard that sometimes you want to throw in the towel when a commenter gets under your skin here .

* Mari Meehan /Dogwalk Musings shares her thoughts on illegal immigration here , and Bayview Herb discusses his attitude toward illegal immigration here .

* JBelle /The ‘Kan EWA is struggling with her own personal Jerusalem as Lent continues to wind down here .

* Stebbijo /Your Turn proves why her graphics are always among the best as she posts about the opening of The Coeur d’Alene Resort golf course (on April 1) here .

HBO Page-Views: March was a ha-huge month for Huckleberries Online: 216,544 page-views (to break old record of 177405), 6,985 PVs per day average, and 526,018 PVs for the first quarter (to put the blog on track for 2 million PVs for the year).

Meanwhile, CDADave provides a Thin Air entertainment report here , Sam brags about the UI Argonaut taking the top spot in regional competition here , and Pickaxe Pete /Bodie Specter reacts to the news that comedian Chris Farley died … 8 years ago … here .