HBO’s Inland Northwest — 4.7.10

Jon Crandall of Coram, Mont., paddles his canoe across Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park, Mont. Scientists said today that Glacier National Park has lost two more of its namesake moving icefields to climate change, which is shrinking the rivers of ice until they grind to a halt Story here . (AP File Photo/Daily Inter Lake, Karen Nichols)

• Cartoon: America’s worst driver /Milt Priggee, Seattle P-I
• Montana Freeman 1st to be sentenced under retaliation law /Associated Press
• Candidate Allred pitches health care plan /Betsy Russell, Eye On Boise
• U.S. Rep. McMorris Rodgers to run again /Associated Press
• Feds tight-lipped about IED found at Spokane courthouse /Rob Kauder, KXLY
• Fisherman rescued after falling through ice /Melissa Weaver, Daily Inter Lake
• Idaho convenience stores want credit card reform /Idaho Statesman
• Utah, Wyoming seek to intervene in Montana gun suit /Associated Press
• Cannabis clinic captivates Kalispell crowd /Melissa Weaver, Daily Inter Lake

Smacky (tongue firmly cheeked): “The icefields simply disappeared as a result of health care reform brought to by the current socialist Islamic president. I’m certain most meteorologist would agree with that theory.”