Bakercityherald.com: Qwest faces the awful tooth

File this under "The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray."

I wondered what had us at a communications standstill most of Monday in this part of the world. As Jayson Jacoby of the Baker City Herald explains, it was a gopher - a pioneering gopher, no less, that did what no gopher in the Pacific Northwest has been known to do before...