HBO’s Best Of The INW — 3/20/09

” I’m ready for spring.” said Steve Hutchison of Coeur d’Alene as he removed his Christmas decorations on Wednesday. (Kathy Plonka/Spokesman-Review)

• Idaho state workers face 3% cut /Eye On Boise
• Idaho House kills ‘fetal death’ bill /Eye On Boise
• Crump: Idaho native stars on ‘SpongeBob Square-Pants’/ Twin Falls Times News
• Horse slaughter bill gallops closer to Montana governor /Billings Gazette
• Orbusmax Special: Teachers union tries to kill Oregon online charter school here .

Question: Do you know anyone who still has outside Christmas lights up at his/her house?

• Spokane officers named in fatal shooting /SR
• Bad economy boosts shoe-repair craft /Billings Gazette
• Ex-UMontana student guilty of cyberstalking /Missoulian
• Montana angler catches record-tying pygmy whitefish /Daily Inter Lake
• Governor honors C.M. Russell sculpture artist /Helena Independent-Record