Life Update
Delivering kombucha like the milkman
How Love’s Kombucha makes their signature drinks

Sitting in their booth at the Moscow Farmers Market, the first time they had ever sold their kombucha, Renee and Emmett Love launched their local, alumni business, Love’s Kombucha. Spending the winter experimenting with flavors, they started out doing home delivery.

Celebrating Indigenous People’s Day
Honoring and celebrating Indigenous communities through art and film

The Native American Student Center organized a keynote address and a film screening to celebrate Indigenous People’s Day on Oct. 12 and 13.

OPINION: Masked kindness
Customer service to the “Karens” and flat earthers of 2020

I love my job. I love helping people, even if it is just helping people find a sweater and jeans they feel like they can kill it in. I am not an essential worker during these crazy times, and I feel a little ridiculous and out of place when I have a bad day at my job that I know I am lucky to have.

OPINION: Trump v. Biden: town hall edition
Trump and Biden go head to head for primetime dominance

Last week President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden participated in competing town halls. In one corner you have Biden, a 77-year-old man who is the physical embodiment of the phrase “that reminds me of a story…” In the other, Trump, a man who talks about policy like a husband caught in bed with someone named “Stormy.”

OPINION: The world during quarantine
When humans stay inside, does nature really rebound?

We all remember toward the beginning of quarantine in the U.S. when the viral photos of dolphins and swans in a crystal-clear Venetian canal gained attraction on the Internet, right? The caption declared that humans are the real virus and without us “nature is healing.”

OPINION: Let it snow, I’ll stay inside
Winter is nearly as terrible as the pandemic, but we can overcome it

Snow is massively overrated. The beautiful photos of snowcapped mountains leave me inspired and in awe, wanting to go visit those types of places for myself. Until I remembered snow is one of the most troublesome nuisances of my existence, especially in 2020.

OPINION: Drug use prevention
Dropping drug use numbers, helping with recovery

Drug use interfering with daily life is something we have all heard of, or maybe even experienced ourselves. You might even know of someone who has been negatively affected by drug use, whether they are celebrity, a family member, a friend or ourselves. It can be incredibly difficult to handle, to care for and to experience.