Building overseas trumps Flint issue
Editors tackle the Notre Dame Cathedral incident where President Trump vowed to donate funds when Flint, Michigan still has no clean water.
Category: Editorial
Texas should raise tobacco age to 21
Editors tackle new bill being proposed about raising the legal age to 21 for purchasing tobacco products.
Manner of death is not the issue
Editors cover issue of Mississippi inmate wanting to choose his form of death.
Pay off your loans; don’t pay off people
Editors tackle the college scandal, where famous celebrities had been outed for bribing their children into higher education.
Continue to forgive, continue to learn
A racist photo taken more than 30 years ago of Virginia’s governor has surfaced. The photo shows one man dressed in Ku Klux Klan garb an another in blackface. When can racism be forgiven? Gov. Ralph Northam’s blackface scandal is another painful reminder of a dark part in our country’s history. Let us be reminded that Virginia held the Confederacy’s capital in Richmond and was a major proponent of slavery. Although many Americans since have learned to embrace others regardless of their skin color, it cannot be denied that racism has been in embedded in Virginia’s culture for a long…
Anti-vaccinators’ choices hurt everyone
Measles and whooping cough are among the diseases spreading because of the anti-vaccination movement. The movement started with a possible link between vaccinations and autism. A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study showed that an aggressive vaccination schedule does not increase risk of autism. Instead of following fact-based evidence, some parents are deciding to risk their children’s lives with illnesses such as measles, polio and whooping cough. Not only do they risk their children’s lives, but the lives of others as well. People magazine reported that an Ohio teenager chose to get himself vaccinated without his parent’s approval.…
Time for shutdown to come to an end
The Wall. These small words pushed together hold so much controversy and have caused the longest government shutdown in history. President Donald Trump has said he will keep the government shut down until a decision is made on the border wall he deems necessary. However, many fail to see the necessity of spending billions of dollars on construction of the wall. The wall and the government shutdown are a waste of time and money, but most importantly it’s hurting the American people. According to the Texas Department of Health and Human Services, 3.5 million Texans receive food stamp benefits. Texas…
Fighting for the right to write
In recent years the world has taken the art of newspapers and journalism and evolutionized it. The rapid decline of the newspaper industry has paved an upward path for a new type of news and media platform. Although the news/media outlet range has become wider, one thing stays the same and that is the journalism. The role of the reporter and of the press never changes, but only gets perfected. President Donald Trump has kept Americans out of the loop concerning many important topics. The press continues to ask simple and fair questions that the public lawfully has the right…
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
Liberty and justice for all. These words do not seem to hold much meaning these days. Most Americans take pride in how far the nation has come as a whole, but as religious and racial discrimination have come into focus in America again, America has come to a halt on the road to change. Today we have numerous Americans sitting in cells accused of committing hate crimes toward other ethnicities. There are Americans shooting down other Americans in synagogues, churches, mosques and more. A man named Robert Bowers was arrested in late October for shooting and killing 11…
Youths need to be educated about sex
Teaching our youth about sex is an age-old debate. When parents discuss talking to their teens about sex, words like taboo, religion and innocence are often thrown around. However, rates of sexually transmitted diseases in the United States have climbed for the fourth consecutive year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The schools have taken away the fear of STDs because they are no longer educating youths about them. They’ve turned sex into something teens shouldn’t do because it was decided for them by a committee that determined they are too young to know the truth. Only…