"The best way to predict your future is to create it." Abraham Lincoln

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"The best way to predict your future is to create it." Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln High School Statesman

"The best way to predict your future is to create it." Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln High School Statesman

Thunberg (pictured above) is a 16-year-old climate activist from Stockholm, Sweden that has made waves globally for her outspoken criticism of public officials.

Thunberg is not your hero

Molly Wetsch, News Editor October 17, 2019

“If [the climate change movement] were about science, it would be led by scientists rather than a mentally ill Swedish child...”  This is the statement that political commentator Michael J. Knowles...

Yard sales often take place in the spring and summer, opening mid-morning and closing around around dinner.

Why I love yard sales

Jazlyn White, Staff Writer October 12, 2019

The feeling of spotting a neon green sign accompanied by a large arrow on a Saturday morning drive with my mother is nothing short of exhilarating. The slightly musty garage, the out-of-print books and...

Trump signing sanctions against Iran

Fighting for peace

Daniel Bethke, Staff Writer September 27, 2019

There is a famous quote attributed to Albert Einstein: “I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” This quote highlights...

Tim White and Anna Robinson won LHS Homecoming king and queen in 2017.

Homecoming king humbly accepts nomination despite knowing darn well he’d win the whole time

Landon DeBoer, Sports Editor September 20, 2019

Awarding Kyle Homecoming king was the least the students of LHS could do to show a token of respect to a kid who left a mediocre impact on their lives. Kyle overwhelmingly won the Homecoming crown with...

According to IMDB, the creator, Sam Levinson, used inspiration from his own drug addiction from his teenage years to write the series.

You on “Euphoria”

Mara Fendrich, Perspectives Editor September 12, 2019

As a child with choppy bangs and a subtle underbite, I used to sneak downstairs at night to watch reruns of “Skins” and “Degrassi”, staring until the backs of my eyelids were streaked green and...

Our negative perceptions of the government have lowered our standards for politicians.

A culture of cynicism

Cathleen Weng, Editor-in-Chief September 12, 2019

The year was 1971. Michael Jackson crooned over a backdrop of stagflation and flagging progressive values. A resurgence in conservatism emerged as a response to the sex, drugs and rock n’ roll of ‘60s...

This was worse. This time, I had nowhere else to go.

Terminus

Mara Fendrich, Perspectives Editor September 5, 2019

It wasn’t until my second sleepless night in Copenhagen that it dawned on me I might be stuck like this forever. At four in the morning, my body lay still and rigid against the red heat of the air,...

This tree will continue to prosper thanks to this momentous achievement

Top scientists: climate change not that big of a deal anymore

Slater Dixon, Perspectives editor August 29, 2019

Take note of this moment; scientists from organizations including NASA, the American Meteorological Society and the United Nations have made a startling announcement: climate change is officially not that...

It was impossible to hide. I tried time and time again to conceal them, to cover them with a jacket or backpack.

Rigor samsa.

Mara Fendrich, Staff Writer May 23, 2019

The day never ends as it once began. Nevertheless, I must persist as though it did. At first, I didn’t notice my scars growing around me, caging me in; it started small. Every rejection, every low...

It was the worst of times it was the best of times. TV shows are an emotional roller coaster.

The War to End All Wars

Johana Brower, Staff Writer May 23, 2019

‘The Office’ vs ‘Parks and Recreation’ vs ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine:’ for the past decade, the three best TV-shows of all time have aired and people have been talking and debating over them. “The...

Save the world. Thrift.

Save the world. Thrift.

Kat Steffen, Staff Writer May 23, 2019

As I wandered the color-coordinated aisles at Savers, my hands explored each piece of clothing as my mother stood unimpressed behind me. I felt the need to examine every item by feeling its textures, by...

Internet has been critiqued since the moment of releasement

i <3 internet

Yairis Alvarado, News Editor May 22, 2019

Satirical contents are quick to mock the dependency that our society has created on the idea of easy access to the Internet; however, the more we question, the more we realize if that mockery is even rational....

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