Photo provided courtesy of Pixabay.com. By Matt Naum, Staff Writer On September 4, 2020, Curtis Flowers was officially released from Mississippi state custody after having murder charges against him dropped. These charges are what forced Flowers to endure six separate trials. [1] The trials resulted in four convictions, four […]
Photo provided courtesy of unsplash.com By Shreya Desai, Staff Writer “Defund the police.” Since approximately June of 2020, this cry has been heard around the United States of America. [1] The slogan gained popularity following the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American man, who was killed in […]
Photo provided courtesy of Unsplash.com By: Rachel Pressdee, Staff Writer One hundred years ago women were granted the right to vote with the adoption of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution. [1] Pennsylvania was an early embracer of women’s suffrage and was the seventh state to ratify the […]
Photo provided courtesy of Unsplash.com. By Madeline Olds, Staff Writer On Election Night 2020, Oregon became the first state to decriminalize possession of heroin, methamphetamines, oxycodone, and all other drugs. [1] Measure 110 was passed with a 58.46% approval vote, a discrepancy from the 55% in the CNN article […]
Photo courtesy of Pexels.com. By Samantha Dorn, Staff Writer “COVID fatigue” is the name given to the widespread mental exhaustion affecting many people due to the effects of the current pandemic. [1] This fatigue has been brought on by the “constant threat of illness, layoffs, and deaths while being […]
Photo provided courtesy of Pexels.com. By Edward Stinson III, Staff Writer Renewable energy has been a source of significant controversy in the United States. Along partisan lines, renewable energy exists as a wedge issue in both national and state politics. Meanwhile, courts have taken a gradual approach toward constructing […]
Photo provided courtesy of Supremecourt.gov. By Madeline Olds, Staff Writer In the wake of the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, President Trump and the Republican senators have brought a nomination and now new Justice forward, Amy Coney Barrett. [1] Her entrance into the Supreme Court has caused controversy, as […]
Photo provided courtesy of Unsplash.com. By Falco A. Muscante II, Staff Writer COVID-19 has undoubtedly changed many aspects of American life—including our electoral process. While this is certainly not the first time the procedural integrity of a presidential election has been called into question, the rapid changes to the electoral […]
Photo provided courtesy of Unsplash.com. By Giulia Schaub, Editor-in-Chief Despite top election officials’ claims that the 2020 election was “the most secure in American history, [1] ” its results have been disputed since before the counting of the votes was even completed, and have continued to be disputed in the […]
Photo provided courtesy of Pexels.com. By: Annie J. Rago, Staff Writer Derrick Wang is a lawyer and composer. [1] While studying Constitutional Law, he recognized the reoccurrence of “Justice Scalia, Dissenting.” [2] To Wang personally, Justice Scalia’s dissents were like arias meant for music accompaniment. [3] Wang remarked that Justice […]
