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Queer Time Episode Five: Controversy and a New Global Campaign

February 25, 2019

Maddy and Zach discuss events surrounding controversy in the LGBTQ community and a new global campaign run by the Trump Administration regarding the decriminalization of homosexu...

Despite controversy, the gender wage gap continues to narrow

February 19, 2018

You wake up to the sound of Alec Baldwin’s voice playing on your Echo Dot, signaling the start of your day. You get out of bed and perform your usual morning routine. You get...

Acquittal in Kate Steinle case reignites controversy

December 7, 2017

San Francisco residents were left with mixed feelings when the man who killed a woman on Pier 14 was found innocent by a grand jury. On July 1, 2015, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate sho...

Film ‘Last Tango’ faces rape controversy

December 7, 2016

Film buffs around the world were shocked this past weekend when news arose that the infamous rape scene from Bernardo Bertolucci’s film “Last Tango In Paris” was non-conse...

‘The Forest’ faces controversy

January 19, 2016

Natalie Dormer's new movie, "The Forest," came into box offices Jan. 8. "The Forest" is a supernatural horror movie that follows Sarah Price, a young American woman, on a quest to find her twin sister who has disappeared into the Aokigahara "suicide" Forest in Japan. The forest sh...

Possible tax on soda brings controversy

Sarah Adams, Staff Writer

November 1, 2013

Carlmont students do not agree on whether or not San Francisco's proposed tax on all soda drinks is truly a necessity. San Francisco supervisor Scott Weiner developed this new tax measure, which will increase the price of all soda sales in San Francisco by two cents per ounce of beverage, if passed in the November 2014 vote. The revenues will be used to fund health programs, as well as being used to sup...