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Destination Procrastination

By Samantha Manahan | March 8, 2018

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Today is a new day

By Holly New | September 11, 2012

We are a nation divided. Class warfare, political warfare, racial warfare—every time we turn around, we are labeled and divided again. The upcoming election has divided us more than ever. We forget how much we have in common as humans, citizens and...

Organic food does not equal better food

By Parker Happ | September 18, 2011

Image is everything, especially for the food industry. Take a trip to Walmart and look at the many aisles of dairy products. Advertising portrays small town, independent farms with red silos statuesquely looking over full fields of neatly planted corn....

Most Americans don’t agree with the Republican agenda

By Letter writer | April 4, 2011

It is time for the Americans to fight back. The Republican agenda is very clear as they have been emboldened by their recent electoral gains. They continue their attack on workers, unions and the middle class. They attack unions because they are the last...

Americans need to support Egyptian protesters

Americans need to support Egyptian protesters

By Jessica Jenks | February 8, 2011

I always get concerned that Americans are ethnocentric. According to a recent poll by the Pew Research Center, 52 percent of Americans claimed to have heard little or nothing about the anti-government protests in Egypt. I absolutely think that Americans...