Best of the Northwest (4/28/04):
My stomach's growling, so we must be approaching noon, which means your "Best of the Northwest" roundup is overdue:
1. The baseball season's only 20 games or so old, but already things are looking bad for the Seattle Mariners. Mebbe Milt Priggee forewarned us about bad days ahead with this political cartoon about the season opener here.
2. "Baghdad Jim" McDermott of Seattle is at it again. This time the liberal congressman has made news by omitting the words "under God" while leading the Pledge of Allegiance for the House of Representatives. Click here.
3. In Spokane, Bloomsday runners are waxing nostalgic about the old finish line to the annual springtime run ... in the downtown area. Click here.
4. Boise State, which is crunched for space, has purchased a shopping center for $5 million and now will begin developing plans to use it here.
5. Anna Webb of The Idaho Statesman interviewed favorite Boy-C hometown boy Troy McClain about his success on the TV reality show, "The Apprentice," here.
6. Business is booming in downtown Boy-C since 9-11 here.
7. The Seattle Times continues to look at that drug scandal engulfing the U-Dub softball team here. Meanwhile, U-Dub discusses a sports program run amok here. And sports columnist Steve Kelley looks at the out-of-control program here.
8. A U-Dub study shows that women who have dental X-rays during pregnancy have a better chance at giving birth to an underweight child here.
--Columnist Dan Popkey of The Idaho Statesman takes a look at the efforts being made by labor unions and Democrats to gather 40,772 valid signatures in their push to land on the ballot with their attempted repeal of Right to Work legislation. Click here.
--In an editorial, The Seattle Times correctly takes the Secret Service to task for overreacting to a goofy Prosser kid's drawing of Dubya's head on a stake here.
--WSU senior Randy Henderson tells Seattle Times readers that all the attention being paid by "American Idol" to off-key singer William Hung is nothing but a cruel racist joke here.
--The Missoulian is happy that racist Matthew Hale didn't find Big Sky country very hospitable here.
