Weekly Horoscopes
Consulting the stars

Capricorn: Dec. 22 – Jan. 20  You’ve got a lot on your plate right now and it’s getting hard to handle. If you are starting to feel the pressure, and […]

Weekly Horoscopes
Consulting the stars

Aries (Ram): March 21–April 19.  It’s time for change and time for growth. You’ve been holding onto some strong emotions from the past. It’s time to take a step back […]

Weekly Horoscopes
Consulting the stars

Aries (Ram): March 21–April 19.  It’s no secret you like healthy competition, but this week you may want to consider your definition of what is healthy. Relationships, new and old, will be a source of friction and […]

Life Update
An artist not looking for fame
UI graduate-student shares his musical experience and plans for the future

Ariel Bencobo, an M.A. student at the University of Idaho, is passionate about music and is not looking for fame.

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OPINION: Ignoring our call to action
Kootenai County refusing their civic duty every day of this pandemic

Since June, Moscow’s mayor and local officials have had an ordinance requiring face masks in public. Just a little over an hour away, where I live and go to school at the University of Idaho satellite campus, is the lake and resort town of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Here and in the surrounding cities of Rathdrum, Post Falls, Hayden, and others there has been little to no mask requirements, except for the few chain businesses and corporations requiring them nationwide.

OPINION: The holiday season isn’t worth the endless Christmas music
Allow me to wage a war on Christmas, please

Let’s talk about Christmas. I’m here to tell you why it is the worst holiday ever created. Let’s move right on past the Christian exclusiveness, the mass marketing, the freedom of religion arguments and just get down to the brass tacks of it all. Christmas is the worst because of how obnoxious it is.