Caroline Mascardo, Editorials Editor and Copy Editor
• November 21, 2020
2020 is the year politics became a spectator sport with detrimental consequences. While this never-ending match between Democratic and Republican competitors plays out, many can only watch from afar, hoping...
At 16 years old it seems almost impossible for me to have witnessed climate change during my lifetime, but I have. One of the most recent examples I've seen was the snowfall on Oct. 19, 2020. My family...
Caroline Mascardo, Editorials Editor and Copy Editor
• November 16, 2020
In the last week, there were one million new COVID-19 cases in the country, and an end to the pandemic is nowhere in sight. On a local level, Gov. Kim Reynolds has taken little action to prevent the...
Caroline Mascardo, Editorials Editor and Copy Editor
• November 9, 2020
After a harrowing Election Day, former Vice President Joe Biden secured 270 electoral votes (with more to spare) to claim the President-Elect title on Nov. 7. Throughout the vote-counting process,...
Caroline Mascardo, Editorials Editor and Copy Editor
• November 3, 2020
It's Election Day, and after eight months, 9.4 million cases and 231 thousand deaths, an end to the COVID-19 pandemic is still nowhere in sight. Nevertheless, President Trump has taken to denying fact...
Maggie Huang, Online News Editor
• November 2, 2020
One of the most significant political moments of 2020 was when democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden announced his running mate for the White House. Senator Kamala Harris was the third woman in history...
Caroline Mascardo, Editorials Editor and Copy Editor
• October 26, 2020
Although the final presidential debate sounded slightly less like a schoolyard fight than those prior, it was still a trainwreck. Whether he was downplaying the impact of COVID-19, denying systemic...
Caroline Mascardo, Editorials Editor and Copy Editor
• October 19, 2020
As COVID-19 positivity rates rise and pressure surrounding the presidential election mounts, some of Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court hearing remarks have only added to the 2020 trepidation. Whether...
It was the end of junior year and things were finally looking up. Then the pandemic hit. When school was first closed in March because of COVID-19, I was happy to have more free time. Being able to sit...
Caroline Mascardo, Editorials Editor and Copy Editor
• October 12, 2020
During the 2020 vice presidential debate, Vice President Pence adopted a different strategy than President Trump utilized the week prior. Instead of constantly name-calling and interrupting his opponent,...
It has been a month since we started this new school year, and I have spent the majority of that month doing homework. I’m up until midnight every day, trying to stay afloat in what feels like a never-ending...
With the sudden closure of schools in March due to COVID-19, students were given a longer summer vacation than expected. For me, not going places wasn’t abnormal, but it felt different when there was...