Local government matters
Staff Editorial
October 30, 2020
With a historically important election just around the corner, the eyes of Americans have been fixated on their TVs and social media feeds, attentively watching the race between candidates President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, as well as the clash between their respective parties...
American pride has been perverted to fuel the anti-mask movement
Staff Editorial
October 6, 2020
With more than 7.45 million reported coronavirus cases in the United States as of early October, the world has been watching to see how the country with the highest number of reported COVID-19 cases has been dealing with the pandemic. Anyone who is watching closely can see how much of a mess things...
School board needs to get campus reopening right this time after the disaster of last summer’s decision-making process
Staff Editorial
September 28, 2020
With the San Ramon Valley Unified School District Board of Education scheduled to further explore how to safely reopen school campuses for more than 32,000 students and 3,500 employees beginning Tuesday night, it’s important to closely scrutinize trustees’ decision-making process on this issue when...
Kamala Harris, For The People
Gaby Jimenez, Staff Writer
September 28, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden made history on Aug. 11 when he announced Senator Kamala Harris of California as his running mate against President Donald Trump and Mike Pence. Harris is the first Black woman of Indian descent to be nominated by a major political party for the national...
PRO/CON: Do the advantages outweigh the pitfalls to online learning?
September 28, 2020
CON: Remote learning is a real drag
Jett Gold, Staff Writer
September 28, 2020
When COVID-19 made on-campus learning unfeasible, the idea of remote learning was brought up as a solution - a solution that the district has continued to use up to the present day. Remote learning does have its benefits, but the cons strongly outweigh the pros. The negatives include a sedentary lifestyle,...
PRO: There are benefits to online learning
Shannah Saul, Staff Writer
September 28, 2020
What students originally saw as an extra week of spring break last March turned into the San Ramon Valley Unified School District starting the school year completely online. This decision has been a big point of controversy among students, parents, and teachers, who have a wide range of opinions about...
Colleges are ripping students off again
Sienna Morgan, Staff Writer
September 28, 2020
Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic started, colleges have lost millions of dollars in funding, forcing them to turn to tuition to help bring in money - even though school is online. A significant amount of these schools’ budgets comes from the upfront tuition that students pay to enroll. But...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg goes down in history
Emmy Burrus, Co Editor-in-Chief
September 22, 2020
Millions of American hearts sank last Friday upon hearing the news that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had lost her two decade long battle with various cancers. Ginsburg died of complications related to her recurring struggle with pancreatic cancer at the age of 87. She was the second...