"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
Lifetime chance of being sent to prison by race 1974-2001

Hell on Earth: The United States incarceration system

Fisher Meyerink, Staff Writer • October 13, 2021

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...

Former Exxonmobile senior scientist James Black has had a major role in climate change and its perception.

Are we too late?

Fisher Meyerink, Staff Writer • September 21, 2021

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...

New voting laws in the state of Georgia spark controversy, but why?

Controversial voting law changes in Georgia

Henry Haft, Satire Editor • April 16, 2021

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...

The growing gap between liberals and conservatives, republicans and democrats, has been cause for differing attitudes towards the politics of today.

LHS: divided but not defeated

Veronica Iseminger, Staff Writer • October 21, 2020

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,...

Governor Kristi Noem

Noem’s big move

Slater Dixon, Perspectives Editor • May 15, 2020

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,...

LHS Nurses Office

House committee kills bill striking vaccine requirements for schools

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). 
Political cartoon from the week of 10/21 to 10/25.

“Mulvaney keeps digging”

Landon DeBoer, Sports Editor • October 24, 2019

The House of Representatives has begun an impeachment inquiry into President Trump.

Democrats begin impeachment inquiry into President Trump

Landon DeBoer, Sports Editor • September 26, 2019

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...

The release of the full Mueller report has caused a controversy between House Democrats and President Trump that may end in an extended legal battle.

Trump uses executive privilege over the Mueller report

Landon DeBoer, Sports Editor • May 9, 2019

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...

Moores documentary encapsulates the current political system and exposes its flaws.

Fahrenheit 11/9: Exposing the political problems of the U.S.

Landon DeBoer, Sports Editor • February 28, 2019

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...

From Kanye Wests MAGA rant to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezs dispute with President Trump, Twitter is somewhat of a battleground for politics.

Political tweets: divide and conquer?

Lauren Teller, Staff Writer • February 8, 2019

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...

Due to the government shutdown, federal properties are closed.

Government shutdown continues

Cathleen Weng, News Editor • January 10, 2019

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...

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

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