INW Headlines — 10.14.10

John Foster, campaign manager for U.S. Rep. Walt Minnick, D-Idaho, grabs a soda while a cadboard cutout of the Democratic congressman guards the door to the breakroom inside the campaign’s headquarters on in Boise. Idaho has long been considered one of the country’s most Republican strongholds. (AP Photo/Charlie Litchfield)

• Cartoon: Microsoft magic man /Milt Priggee, Seattle P-I
  
• Idaho vote-by-mail initiative dropped for 2012 /Betsy Russell, SR
• Bar manager gets 17 days for serving drunk who killed trooper /Daily Inter Lake
  
• Pearl Jam bassist builds skate park in Montana hometown /Associated Press
• Montana school board cuts ties with Planned Parenthood sex ed /Missoulian
  
• Washington court: Tribal cops can detain off reservation /Associated Press
• ‘Dear Mr. Lincoln’ Tea Party author replies to Minnick /Dan Popkey, Statesman
• Idaho mining expert calls survival of Chilean miners ‘miraculous’ /Nishi Gupta, KTVB
• Independent Kemp given rare chance to debate in guv race /Ben Botkin, TFTN
• Idaho Fish and Game chief among hunters facing trespass questions /New West
  
• Orbusmax Special: Discrepancy in polls adds confusion in Murray-Rossi Senate race here