Best of the Northwest (4/30/04):
I hear that ... Her Sanderslessness will announce a deal re: access to Sanders Beach next week -- some part other than Jerry Jaeger Beach (my new name for the 600 feet east of the Jewett House). Too little, too late? We'll see. Meanwhile, here's your TGIF Northwest roundup:
1. Cartoonist Milt Priggee ends the week with a coupla 'toons that should get you thinkin' here and here.
2. Mark Erickson was awarded $7 million for blowing the whistle on alleged widespread overbilling for Medicaid and Medicare at U-Dub's medical school here.
3. Columnist Kay McFadden of The Seattle Times opines on that NBC miniseries "10.5," which features an earthquake that destroys the Space Needle and the rest of the Left Coast here.
4. James Dobson of Focus on the Family will lead an anti-gay marriage rally at Safeco Field in Seattle Saturday here.
5. Bob Finnegan of The Seattle Times looks at the M's miserable April here.
6. Washington Supreme Court Justice Bobbe Bridge spoke to a service club about her 2003 DUI here.
7. An exhibit at the Missoula Art Museum shows the horrifying reality of living with asbestos-related diseases here.
8. A poll of the Oregon Legislature shows a deep partisan split over gay marriage here.
--In an editorial, the P-I agrees with U.S. Sen. John McCain re: partisan sniping about the Vietnam era service of Dubya and Flipflop here.
--Blas Telleria, Boise Education Association prez, is correct when he sez we should take time to consider the important role that teachers have played in our lives here.
--Kathryn Robinson tells Seattle Times readers that "Baghdad Jim" McDermott has a right to omit the words "under God" when he pledges allegiance to our flag here. Meanwhile top D Nancy Pelosi took McDermott to the wood shed here.
--The Missoulian sez Pat Tillman was a notable hero, but he's not the only one fighting and dying in Afghanistan and Iraq here.
--Barbara Yost of Gannett News Service sez at the root of procrastination is a desire for perfection here.
