Unprecedented times have finally come to an end. The Writers’ Guild of America, a unionized guild that provides writers with benefits for economic and future stability, has recently gone on strike due to conflicts with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. This is the first strike that...
Wildfires call for community action. Summer is when Californians look forward to cloudless beach days and warm, sunny weather. Rather than the typical greetings of clear blue skies, the state’s 2020 was met with bright orange, smoky hues. It’s no shock that these kinds of wildfires have been occurring...
On Oct.12, The Golden Knights had taken on the Arizona Coyotes for their first-ever home game, but if you ask anyone who was there, they would tell you that it was more than just a typical hockey game. It was more than just an expansion team playing its first...
There is nothing more beautiful to me than waking up every morning and looking out my window to see the San Gabriel Mountains alongside my house. I often find myself sitting on the patio, playing my guitar while I stare at the majestic mountains. They provide me an escape...
Gabriel Gomez’s voice shakes when he recalls the day he crossed the border into Iraq. He remembers when he received word then that his closest friend from boot camp was killed in Afghanistan. It was Gomez’s first deployment. It was his first of two wars. Troop drawdowns in Iraq...
After years of petitioning by competitive cheerleaders around the globe, last Monday, the International Olympic Committee finally gave cheerleading a provisional status to be included as an Olympic sport. The news comes as a positive turn by cheerleaders across the country who have been a part of the movement to show the...
On a cold, flooded Friday morning, thousands of demonstrators congregated to protest the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump. Each person had a cause they were fighting for: immigration rights, women’s rights, sexuality and gender non-comforming rights, civil rights and environmental rights. They have been hurt by the rhetoric of...
People from all nations, races, ages and sizes meet for one cause, to protect our future. On a warm Saturday morning, December 10, thousands gathered in downtown Los Angeles’ Pershing Square in preparation to march and send a message to the world: They are not protesters; they are protectors...
“Pregare per Italia”, which means “pray for Italy” in Italian, is a phrase of wide use across the world at this time. A devastating earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 struck central Italy on Aug 23rd, at approximately 6:36 p.m. As if the quake wasn’t devastating enough, it triggered...
Professor Dave Milbrandt is a political science superhero. He teaches at San Dimas high school by day and at Citrus College by night. He has been teaching political science at Citrus for about six years. Milbrandt was exposed to politics early on. Growing up, politics were his own sport–a...