SHOPPING: A million-dollar question

Here's a question maybe someone can answer. If so many people are having such a hard time paying bills, mortgages, providing food for their family etc., how are so many of them lining up to buy "stuff" they don't really need on Black Friday?

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Sylvia Mercer

DAR offers scholarship opportunities

Scholarship application period open now.

'It gets me mad' - Obama acts alone on gun control

Tears streaking his cheeks, President Barack Obama launched a final-year push to tighten sales of firearms in the US, using his presidential powers in the absence of legal changes that Congress has refused to pass

Dump the nitric oxide in a four-minute workout

I am an expert in avoiding exercise. I definitely fall into the kind of thinking that afflicts many Americans. “I’m too busy.” “Working out is boring.” “Working out is too hard.” “It’s cold and I don’t want to move my body today.”

Russia slows down Twitter, part of social media clampdown

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities said Wednesday they are slowing down the speed

Spokane woman accused of burglarizing home

Suspect allegedly ate food, left gum

Ski for free at Lookout Pass this weekend

These three rounds are on us. So says Lookout Pass Ski and Recreation Area, which is offering free weekend skiing beginning today.

Godless on the Palouse

New coalition of atheists forms in Moscow-Pullman

Drugs, jewelry stolen

VANDALS: Bring on the Big Sky

The reasons for the Vandal football team remaining in the FBS division have gone from controversial to absurd. In an attempt to broach this reasoning, let’s take a look at the school’s arguments themselves.

The best gift was you

The spirit of Christmas was alive and well in North Idaho.

GOP: No mandate

Across the country Republicans claim that the massive changes happening in Obamacare, immigration policy and other areas merely reflect the will of the voters; they claim a mandate from the people. But there is no mandate. Most of the people’s votes were cast against Trump. (There is a long-ignored mandate that our representatives work together.)

DEMONSTRATION: Just cause for humanity

Liberals, locally, just don’t get out and demonstrate much, in whatever number, for whatever cause. But apparently they did just that, about 25 of them, recently. Is this historic or what? In its reporting of the MoveOn protest, The Press might have footnoted an answer to that question. But whatever. The cause couldn’t have been more compelling: the brutal, immoral, illegal treatment of immigrant children at our southern border, a direct result of Trumpian policy, if you’ll remember, intended as a deterrent to hallucinatory rapists, drug dealers, gang members and other unsavory, non-English speaking types pouring from Mexico into the U.S. in droves. Whose hallucinations? One guess.

SCHOOLS: Unfair tax burden

After reading Sunday’s editorial, I have to give a rebuttal to a “recommendation in North Idaho, imported perhaps by newcomers from California, calls for senior citizens to be able to opt out of paying property tax for schools.”

COEUR TERRE: Response to Eric Gundlach

Although he focuses on the potential crisis for Indian Meadows, he speaks truth about the high levels of traffic and speeds presently effecting Fairway Hills. Which in my opinion is a precursor of the end result for Indian Meadows should through traffic be permitted.

GROWTH: Water usage should be considered

There was a lot of helpful, though unsettling, information in the article, Our Gem: Climate and Health. Coeur d’Alene Lake is being impacted by global climate changes and local activities, so the community is encouraged to do our part for the good of the lake, tributaries and communities, including water conservation (protecting the aquifer and watershed), and reducing greenhouse gas emissions to combat climate change.

SILVERWOOD: Great lessons learned

I believe that the Coeur d’Alene Press article about the ticket price watchdog website changing its ranking of Silverwood Theme Park has lessons in it for all of us…

Twitter bans ads that contradict science on climate change

Must support consensus

Hacking target makes it theaters

Streaming release of 'Interview' test for industry