Wild Card/Thursday — 3/26/09

Before I get into the evening headlines, I’d like to point out that Huckleberries Online has a new blogroll — devoted to Spokane area bloggers (in the right rail). Next week, I’ll explore possible ways to highlight bloggers on the blogroll. Mebbe some sort of roundup a coupla times a week. We’ll see. Also, I’m taking tomorrow off. So I’m looking for a guest host for HBO. Now, for the evening headlines: Obama’s planning to send additional troops to Afghanistan here . Alaska’s Mount Redoubt is still erupting here . New York Times has cut jobs and salaries here . U.S. Senate votes to drastically expand AmeriCorps here . And the Wild Card remains in play …