It may be the dead of winter with a snow storm heading our way, but the denizens of Priest Lake are looking ahead to summer, as this photo from Pecky Cox/As The Lake Churns, indicates.

• Cartoon: Not stimulated by stimulus package/David Horsey, PI
• Lawmaker wants to raise Idaho drop-out rate to 18/Statesman
• Stanley, Idaho, register 29 below zero/Statesman
• UI to close at least 2 research centers/Twin Falls Times-News
• Best of the Spokesman.com AM blogs/SR
• WSU fraternity suspended after SWAT raid/KXLY
• Idaho Ed Board to consider nepotism at state schools/AP
• Montana school district to vote on 4-day week/Helena Independent-Record
• Orbusmax Special: Spokesman for embattled Portland Mayor Sam Adams quits here.