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Cigarette packaging should depict frightening images on the front and sides, clearly communicating the consequences of smoking.

Cigarette packaging needs to be more graphic in its dire warnings

Alexander Mao, Angela Tan, and Minghui Zhao November 15, 2024

Since at least the early 1960s, scientists have issued dire warnings about the severe health consequences of smoking cigarettes.  Cigarette and vape packaging, however, has never gone far enough or...

Journalism labor unions have firmly opposed the bill, calling it a “shakedown.”

‘Undemocratic’ deal reached between Google and California news outlets

Ruiyan Zhu November 7, 2024

After more than two years of lobbying for the California Journalism Preservation Act (Assembly Bill 886) to require tech platforms to pay for news, a devastating deal between the California legislature...

Test dates make or break our vacation

The bliss and benefits of having tests before breaks

Minghui Zhao October 31, 2024

Imagine it's the week before Thanksgiving break. You are taking tough classes like AP Calc BC and AP Lang. The possibility looms over you that you might have tests in five or your seven classes. Would...

Here’s why you should vote against Prop 34.

Prop 34’s devious methods target non-profits

Florence Hu October 30, 2024

On this year’s California ballot is Proposition 34, an initiative statute that claims to increase direct funding to patient care by restricting expenditures elsewhere. While the idea of spending more...

Please let me understand my mistakes.

100-word rant: Let me use the answer key to check my work

Caitlin Stoiber October 28, 2024

I stare down at the crime scene in front of me. I see a cruel, red ink mess scratched all over my paper. Seventeen out of 23 — and on a mere in class assignment. I check my phone. Time of death: 8:33...

An assortment of differently colored onions — all of which taste terrible.

A 200-word perspective on the terrible taste of onions

Nicole Lee and Divya Vadlakonda October 28, 2024

Nicole and Divya, Divya and Nicole. What a pair, yet how opposite we are. Nicole thrives in the bright warmth of the day, while Divya is a night owl of the highest order. However, we refuse to be divided...

New California bills protect child influencers’ earnings acquired from likes and engagement on their page.

California needs to take stronger action to protect child influencers

Kara Nikfar October 28, 2024

Governor Gavin Newsom this fall signed two bills into law that related to the emerging industry of an underage online personality: CA Senate Bill 764, which mandates guardians of child influencers to set...

Prop 36 is crucial for criminal accountability.

Proposition 36, well ahead in the polls, will curb ramping drug and theft problem

Alexander Mao October 28, 2024

As the Nov. 5 election inches closer, Proposition 36 remains perhaps the most eye-catching proposition on the California ballot. Garnering an estimated 71% of votes supporting it in polls, Prop 36 promises...

No on 33

Prop 33 hides behind a misleading purpose

Minghui Zhao October 28, 2024

Voters beware. There is a large misleading Trojan Horse on the Nov. 5 ballot: It’s called Proposition 33.  Prop 33 aims to repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act of 1995, which prohibits local...

Vote yes on Prop 2 to better fund public schools and put students first.

How Proposition 2 will help create a safer and more equitable public school environments

Zack Zhang October 28, 2024

One of the most overlooked propositions by the state’s voters is Proposition 2. Prop 2 offers $10 billion in funds to address safety upgrades, expand school infrastructure and enhance air conditioning,...

Democracy is not preserved through violence.

Politics should have no room for violence

Ruiyan Zhu October 27, 2024

Within hours of the second assassination attempt on Republican nominee Donald Trump on Sept. 15, social media comments spurred well into the thousands. “Fake news,” one user commented under the video...

Prop 5 offers a potential solution to the affordable housing crisis.

Prop 5 takes us a step forward in addressing the affordable housing crisis

Skyler Mao October 27, 2024

The housing crisis in California is reaching a boiling point. Right now, 68% of Californians say housing affordability is a major issue, and by 2025, California will need 3.5 million additional housing...

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