Montana State University unveiled its choice for a new logo, featuring a large block M in blue, set atop a curved, golden arc with a gold flame rising from the M. Underneath the M it says Montana State University with the school's popular slogan "Mountains and Minds"/APhoto.

Coeur d'Alene School District officials should be concerned that the public isn't enthusiastic about their two-year, $7.3 million levy, which features a controversial portion for college prep students. In a Coeur d'Alene Press Online poll, the levy is "leading" only 49.5% to 43% (after 556 votes) here.

1. David Horsey/PI reacts to news about fat being where it's at now here.

2. In Boise, Idaho atheists won a face-off to rally on the Statehouse step, the place where Christians usually gather to observe the National Day of Prayer today, here.

3. Boiseans Joy and Stan Steiner discuss their hot-off-the-presses book, "P Is for Potato: An Idaho Alphabet" with The Idaho Statesman here.

4. Nearly 40 years after fighting in the jungles there, Peter Small, 58, Bonners Ferry, recently returned from a month long adventure to Vietnam, where he traveled from Hanoi to Saigon by motorcycle, visiting many of the fields of battle where he fought, reports the Kootenai Valley Press, here.

5. WSU will hold a memorial service Friday for Vincent Ray Franceschi, 52, director of the School of Biological Sciences and the Electron Microscopy Center at Washington State University, who died unexpectedly on Saturday at Pullman Regional Hospital. Click here.

6. IMHO-NW: Tom Peacock/The Easterner (Race being used as a crutch), Mike Weland/Kootenai Valley Press (Boundary County school levy), Connie Maus/Statesman (Shifting role of nurses), Bob Taunton/Statesman (Conserving water), and Kelly Walkup/The Easterner (Playing second fiddle to Gonzaga).

*RuralNorthwest.com presents the weekly Kootenai County sheriff's warrant roundup here.

*Boise and Garden City are paying $7000 to fix bullet holes in homes hit during a wild police shootout here.

*Students working for a UOregon designated driver program seen drinking on the job here.

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