Best of the Northwest

Argonaut: School and audience attendance significantly declined during the 2010 Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival.

Arbiter: Boise State University is severely alienating more than one fourth of its student body with its campus-wide smoking ban.

Cda Press: As the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation struggles to budget around state cutbacks, Farragut State Park will close its visitor center two days a week to conserve funding.

Idaho Statesman: Idaho budget writers approved sharp budget cuts for substance abuse treatment, Idaho Public Television and higher education in fiscal year 2011 on Tuesday morning.

NIC Sentinel: Some people are buried when they pass away. Others are cremated. But some choose to be completely dissected and put back together, all in the name of science.

Seattle Times: Jimi Hendrix is dead. The album is dead. And so the arrival of a new Jimi Hendrix album is an extraordinary occasion.