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The Donald does his part: Donald Trump is bringing back the original concept of “The Apprentice” and, rather than celebrities, will choose 14 candidates from the ranks of the unemployed, dissatisfied workers and college grads.

Recognizing that these folks will have already experienced hardship in the working world, Trump won't banish people with “You're fired!” but will let them down easy with “We have some lovely unemployment paperwork for you to fill out.”

Final Frontier? Frontier Financial Corp., the Everett-based parent of Frontier Bank, is disputing a finding by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. that it is “critically undercapitalized."

Frontier has asked that the FDIC run the numbers again on its real estate loans but has agreed to put up new signs outside all bank branches with all letters in its name in capitals.

Wild thing: Seattle Mariners pitcher Cliff Lee has been suspended for the first five games of the season because he threw a pitch over the head of an Arizona Diamondbacks player in a Cactus League game last week. Lee claimed it wasn't intentional and the pitch got away from him.

Lee should have taken a lesson from former M's pitcher Randy Johnson: Anything you can't control, just call it “Mr. Snappy.”