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Opinion: The American electorate is not ready for a diverse candidate

January 21, 2019

Speculation clouds the air as Americans begin to wonder which Democratic candidate will face President Trump in the 2020 election. Among those considered by ABC to be most lik...

ScotSkim: controversy

November 5, 2018

President Donald Trump posts questionable advertisement On Nov. 1, five days prior to the 2018 midterm election, President Donald Trump tweeted a new advertisement video depictin...

Op-Ed: Don’t let rhetoric trump reason in Belmont

November 2, 2018

A couple months ago, I published a pretty lengthy article that drew a few conclusions on the nature of development in Belmont and how certain past forces have left us in our pre...

Opinion: Election Day should be a national holiday

September 18, 2018

Only 56 percent of eligible voters cast ballots in the 2016 election, according to Pew Research. What happened to the other 44 percent? Where did they go? While some ma...

San Carlos City Council candidates prepare for election

March 20, 2018

Three new candidates have announced their campaigns for the upcoming San Carlos City Council elections. The elections will be held in November 2018 and three seats will be open. The candidates, Adam Rak, Laura Parmer-Lohan, and Sara McDowel...

San Carlos voters prepare to hit the polls in school board election

October 5, 2017

San Carlos voters will hit the polls on Nov. 7 for a school board election in the San Carlos School District. As the voting date nears, sample ballots have been sent out to r...

The 2016 election receives mixed reactions

December 8, 2016

Adriana Ramirez reports on the 2016 election and how it shocked many as the results were not the expected results.

Bay Area bubble bursts in wake of Trump victory

November 12, 2016

Donald Trump supporters are ignorant, but not as much as Hillary Clinton supporters. As the presidential election drew nearer, the majority of Carlmont's population and the B...

Trump victory unveils Republican silent majority

November 10, 2016

Holding their breaths, with stomachs clenched, many Clinton supporters turned away from the polling results. Florida had just been lost to Donald Trump, and as far as the Clinton campaign...

Students cast their ballots in a mock election

November 10, 2016

Estella Lippi reports on Carlmont's mock election.

Students vote in a mock election

November 7, 2016

With the presidential election on the horizon, many students are forming opinions about the various candidates and propositions that are at stake. In the spirit of democracy,...

Urgency ordinance restricts marijuana usage

November 2, 2016

The legalization of marijuana has hit yet another obstacle. On Nov. 1, San Jose City Council adopted an urgency ordinance prohibiting marijuana usage prior to the upcoming...