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OPINION: Tennessee School Board Bans Maus

Ally Richardson
February 24, 2022

On January 10, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Maus by Art Spiegelman was banned by the McMinn County School Board in Tennessee in a unanimous vote due to excessive language and nudity. Since that vote,...

Kamila Valieva

Winter Olympics Controversy

Julissa Guevara-Lopez
February 22, 2022

Kamila Valieva, a 15 years old Russian figure skater, tested positive for a drug test. The drug was known as trimetazidine and is mainly used as a medication to treat heart and chest pain for older people....

Snow sits upon the Olympic rings in Sochi, Russia for the 2014 Olympics.

US Boycotts Chinese Winter Olympics

Brandon Level
February 22, 2022

White House and its Allies Announce Beijing Winter Olympic Boycott On December 6th of last year, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki held a press conference detailing the new Beijing Olympics Diplomatic...

Truckers Have Disrupted Canada in Lieu of COVID-19 Protests

Truckers Have Disrupted Canada in Lieu of COVID-19 Protests

Safa Hameed
February 22, 2022

For the past month, Canada has been plagued by truckers' protests against vaccine mandates that has devolved into far-right action against Prime Minister Trudeau’s Liberal Government and all COVID-19...

Skidmore, Gage. “Mark Cuban.” Flickr, 20 Mar. 2019, https://www.flickr.com/photos/gageskidmore/32495936747. Accessed 2 Feb. 2022.

Mark Cuban Has Created an Affordable Online Pharmacy

Kaeden Brown
February 22, 2022

Pharmacy drug costs have always been a problem to the average American. However, Mark Cuban, the billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner, and Shark Tank star seems to have found the solution. It seems that...

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The Ukraine-Russia Crisis

Paul Siebert
February 17, 2022

Introduction Since the fall of the Soviet Union and Ukraine becoming independent in 1991, a lot has happened in Eastern European politics. Ukraine has been forging increasingly close ties with the West,...

People protesting for Vanessa Guillén and her death. (Cr: Victoria Pickering on Flickr (https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fvpickering%2F50171486586&psig=AOvVaw1a5rAEWgjrnLCQaYUOlU6T&ust=1645204800865000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAkQjhxqFwoTCOCT6tCfh_YCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD))

Vanessa Guillén and Turning Sexual Harassment Into a Crime

Julissa Guevara-Lopez
February 17, 2022

Vanessa Guillén was a 20 year old Mexican born September 30 1999 and raised in Houston Texas. She had been interested in joining the army since she was little and would play with her brother's toy pistol...

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Omicron and How FCPS is Working Through It

Ashley Park
February 15, 2022

When the county originally wrapped things up and let winter break commence, it was probably safe to say that very few anticipated another large COVID-19 outbreak. The world was hit with another COVID variant,...

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SAT Changes

Manwela Katas
February 15, 2022

On January 25, 2022, the College Board announced new changes happening to the SAT exam. The paper-pencil test will be taken digitally on a computer or tablet that is provided by the school or a personal...

Blue Light Glasses (Cr: Nenad Stojkovic (via flickr))

The Effects of Blue Light

Kevin Han
February 15, 2022

As more and more people spend time on their electronic devices, blue light can affect them in many different ways. Blue light can have health benefits—however, it can lead to some diseases and hurt the...

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Virginia School Boards SUE Governor Over No-Mask Mandate + Exclusive with Virginia Secretary of Health

Brandon Level
February 15, 2022

Just last week an Arlington judge temporarily halted Governor Youngkin's executive order making masks optional across the state.  In Youngkin's 2021 gubernatorial election bid, he promised parents...

Plastic bag tax advertised on the fairfaxcounty.gov website

New Grocery Bag Tax Rolling Out Across Virginia

Brandon Level
February 15, 2022

Last year the Virginia General Assembly passed a bill that effectively required all shoppers to pay 5 cents per plastic bag utilized during checkout. That bill went into effect at the beginning of the...

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