Archive for Opinion

by Mario Peterson As we all may have heard as of now, two bombs were detonated near the finish line at the Boston Marathon on April 15th.  It was a time for excitement and happiness for Bostonians and New Englanders as they were in the midst of celebrating Patriot’s Day, a civic holiday recognized in [...]

by Mario Peterson The day after the unbelievably tragic events at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut that took the lives of 26 innocent people, with 20 young children among those, President Obama spoke to the families to show his respects and condolences as he was trying to fight back tears. A lot of people [...]

By Mario Peterson A majority of individuals were well aware of the election on Tuesday. It may be due to the excessive amount of political brochures delivered to homes, television commercials that appeared incessantly, or simply watching the results first-hand as the President won the electoral votes from swing states California and Ohio, clearing the [...]

by Alex Meeske To all seniors who attended Operation Prom on Tuesday, I hope you take the message to heart!  For those who don’t know me, I played the dead girl on the hood of the car.  Brandon Cox played the driver, and Erin Walker and Jay Edwards played the passengers in the backseat.  Mrs. [...]

by Paul Tomkins Since its creation in 2004, Facebook has been a great source for people to reconnect, ask a friend what the homework for Spanish was, and see what other people were doing. Even though they changed the layout and features of the website a lot, Mark Zuckerberg and the Facebook developers have really [...]

by Bryce Verlinden Everyone knows that when you start seeing commercials featuring political candidates, there is an election coming up. These annoying commercials pop up repeatedly; sometimes every other commercial is one for a presidential candidate. The election is a year away, and yet we see the faces of Michelle Bachman, Herman Cain, and Mitt [...]