There is a place in the U.S where slavery is legal. Where a simple misunderstanding can lead to your death. Where you are practically forced into awful work conditions for pennies an hour. What's worse...
Yes. Well, pretty much. NASA, National Geographic and The IPCC all agree, we’ve lost. We’re past the threshold for reversing climate change. What we’ve been consistently warned of since 1896 has...
The sweeping rewrite of Georgia’s election rules represents the first extensive set of changes since former president Donald Trump’s repeated fraudulent claims following his presidential loss to Joe...
With the smell of dying leaves and political tension in the air, friends, families and neighbors alike have turned against each other, and you’d be mistaken to think that it would end at school. If anything,...
In early April, national anxieties about the COVID-19 outbreak reached a new high. The Surgeon General made headlines on Fox News Sunday with his claim that “This is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment,...
Slater Dixon, Perspectives Editor
• February 26, 2020
On Tuesday, the South Dakota House Health and Human Services committee heard a bill that would have struck mandates requiring immunizations for all students. A motion to move the bill to the 41st day passed 10-2, effectively killing it (there are only 40 days in the South Dakota legislative session).
Late Tuesday afternoon, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi formally announced that the United States House of Representatives and its subcommittees were going to begin an inquiry for the impeachment of...
Yesterday, President Trump used his executive privilege to block the House Judiciary Committee from obtaining the full, unredacted report on Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election by Special...
Warning: Spoilers ahead.
Michael Moore’s enlightening documentary, “Fahrenheit 11/9,” reveals the events that led to the unsuspected election of President Donald Trump on Nov. 9, 2016.
Moore’s...
If you back the second amendment, then you are a Republican. If you support abortion rights, then you are a Democrat. If you had to Google the second amendment, or any other measure making an appearance...
Wednesday, Jan. 9 - President Donald Trump walks out of a White House meeting as the partial government shutdown nears its fourth week.
Already deep into the second longest government shutdown in history...
Soranje Phenias is a senior at LHS and a first-year staff writer for the Statesman. She is on both the track and cheer teams, and says she loves to stunt. “A student-athlete you can say.” When Phenias...
