Opinion

As attorney general, Pam Bondi lied for President Donald Trump. She hurled insults at Democrats for him. She tried to shield him from the Jeffrey Epstein files. She groveled and doused him with praise in Cabinet meetings.

November midterm elections are fast approaching, and Democratic candidates are set up to succeed. Whether they follow through is up to them.

It’s understandable that America’s NATO allies – bullied, disparaged and threatened by President Donald Trump – hardly want to lift a finger to help the United States and Israel in their war in Iran.

The Kootenai County Republican Central Committee recommends “rated and vetted” candidates to voters in North Idaho. Many voters rely on these recommendations, trusting the Republican brand. Yet, over the past several years, the same pattern emerges: The KCRCC recommends unstable candidates lacking the temperament to govern. These poor decisions demonstrate the need for change.

In the 1950s, when half of American adults smoked, many freshmen unpacking at college were greeted by upperclassmen paid by tobacco companies to distribute free cigarettes. In 1964, the U.S. surgeon general said smoking causes lung cancer. Most people, however, had long intuited that inhaling smoke from a burning plant is unhealthy. In a 1906 O. Henry short story, a character asks, “Say, sport, have you got a coffin nail on you?”

Baumgartner has political responsibility to farmers

By Seattle Times editorial board

President Donald Trump calls environmentalists “terrorists.” Yet he is responsible for destroying more oil and gas infrastructure, and possibly more fossil-fuel demand, than the most optimistic ecoterrorist could in their wildest dreams.

Mental health in Spokane

From Kinmen, a tiny outer island of Taiwan which lies less than 2 miles from the Chinese mainland, one can view the high-rise towers of the Chinese port city of Xiamen.

By Douglas Poole

EV students deserve better