On April 14, the Sequoia Union High School District (SUHSD) announced at the Board of Trustees meeting that they’ve hired their new district superintendent, Dr. Darnise Williams. With ample background in education, Williams hopes to unite the community to work towards more equitable education for...
As one of the traditional pillars of a democratic society, freedom of speech has faced constant attempts to define and redefine its parameters. This is especially true regarding the free speech rights of students. On April 28, the Supreme Court debated a case in which Mahanoy Area School District...
In February of 2021, India was recording low numbers of COVID-19 cases. However, the second wave in India began in April, causing cases and deaths to rise rapidly, even breaking records. Hospitals are running low on oxygen tanks, hospital beds, and other medical equipment. Families are being forced to...
Rapper Trippie Redd collaborated with fellow artist Playboi Carti for their new single, "Miss the Rage," which came out on May 7, after arousing hype from the rap community for several months. Initially teased on an Instagram post in December 2020, "Miss the Rage" marks a dramatic change from Redd's...
All good things start from somewhere. That’s what Sadie Scott and Kyra Slattery like to think. The two are co-owners of Femme Fatale SF, an ever-evolving jewelry company that started from a sparkly hot pink cardboard box. Scott situated herself on Pier 39 in San Francisco on July 4, 2019, accompanied...
As a high school student scrolls through TikTok in mid-March, they watch an overwhelming amount of students get rejected from the various University of California colleges. Later that month, the statistics for the admissions processes were released and they realized that the constant rejections were...
Restaurants have been struggling ever since the pandemic began in early 2020. With so many sudden changes in health regulations and COVID-19 ordinances, many small restaurants have gone under, while some have persevered or even excelled despite challenging conditions. But this all begs the question:...
As we aspire to bring this unprecedented pandemic to an end, the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine has dramatically increased throughout the country. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Pfizer-BioNTech to distribute their vaccines to those who are 16-years-old and up. On April...
The San Mateo County’s Board of Supervisors recently approved a new Juvenile Justice Realignment Plan to carry out Senate Bill 823, Juvenile Justice Realignment: Office of Youth and Community Restoration. The new Senate Bill 823 and Juvenile Justice Realignment Plan, among other things, reduce the...
Bubble tea shops nationwide worry that there will be no more boba to sell due to a nationwide shipping delay. According to San Francisco Chronicle, boba shops are dealing with shipment delays due to a West Coast port pile-up of shipping containers. A lot of it is blamed on the pandemic since it...
