Have you ever had a test you knew you HAD to study for? I’m talking about one of those potentially grade dropping, cry-inducing, makes-me-want-to-scream type of tests. Well, I just had one, and let me tell you, it wasn’t pr...
During the early Roman period, a mythical god named Janus had two faces: one being forward and the other backwards. These two faces allowed the mythical god to be able to look forward into the future and back into the past. The fir...
Picture a girl walking home from a tough day at school, head and body heavy from the day’s exertion. Once home, she turns on the television to see a group of girls in a room talking, and she’s sad. Sad that, in her mind, she...
As poverty rates increase, the need for Proposition 2 goes up along with it. Proposition 2 is the greatest movement to help end homelessness in California and the ongoing suffering that goes along with it, with no cost to the ta...
By sanctioning Proposition 10, voters would agree to additional rent control regulations as well as their expansion.
Tenants are in support of this idea since regulations would limit unjust evictions and sporadic rent hikes...
Proposition 4 is a proposal that would authorize $1.5 billion to be used on children’s hospitals to help with construction, expansion, renovation, and equipment. The money will be split into three parts. 72 percent will be given...
My final year here at HMSA has given me much to think about both the future and the past. I sometimes wish I’d spent my summers differently, but it’s too late to fix that. Nevertheless, there is still this summer and many...
“The way you were taught to write is wrong,” he said to the auditorium. For 50 minutes, I was blown away by what I was hearing. I had gained a new insight--a redesigned vision of what writing in the school system did to peo...
On the 14th of February, America was rattled by a senseless act that took 17 young and beautiful lives. In Parkland, Florida at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, 19 year old Nikolas Cruz went on a rampage of terror. Armed w...
