Wild Card/Tuesday — 6.29.10

I join Bent in hoping that the two reporters (Melissa Weaver and Erika Hoefer, pictured) from the Daily Inter Lake in Kalispell, Mont., and the other two people with them in the missing airplane are found safe. They’ve been missing since Sunday. Others have survived plane crashes in that rugged country of northwestern Montana. But more haven’t. A job as news editor — and later managing editor — at the Inter Lake brought me to the Inland Northwest 33 years ago. The Inter Lake building was built by John Barlow while I was editor in Kalispell for the Hagadone Newspaper Co. I know that newsroom. It’s a small one. The two empty desks in there today are looming huge. My thoughts and prayers are with the staff and the families of these two women. Now, for your Wild Card …