Congress recently passed a spending bill, providing the United States government with enough funds to prevent another partial shutdown. President Trump is expected to sign the bill into law, but he believes that it issues an unsatisfactory amount of wall funding and he plans on declaring a state of national emergency in order to gain additional finances.
Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp has eked out a victory in Georgia’s 2018 gubernatorial elections in the midst of widespread accusations of voter suppression.
"If I vote this time, is he [President Trump] really going to go away?” Renita Bhartu joked as she headed towards the polls. She is one of hundreds of East Palo Alto residents who showed up at the city’s Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) last Tuesday, November 6, to cast a ballot in the midterm elections.
The 2018 midterm elections marked a turning point for diversity within American politics. Minority races and religions, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and women gained seats in office and many citizens felt that, for the first time, their voices were being heard. To determine the effect that this representation had on the local community, the Woodside Paw Print visited polling centers in both Woodside and East Palo Alto.
More than 95% of Antarctica’s oldest ice has melted according to the 2018 Arctic Report Card released by the Arctic Program on December 11th. The annual report touches on all arctic conditions ranging from ice loss and temperature fluctuation, to microplastic pollution and health threats. The report card reveals that the Arctic is breaking air temperature highs from prior years and is in no state to return to its cold, frosty conditions of the past. New risks, such as the sharp decline in landfast ice, rose in 2018 and already existing threats, like the progressing melting of Antarctica’s thickest ice, worsen the Arctic environment.
Sergio Calderon Jr., member of boy band In Real Life and Woodside Priory alumnus, encouraged fans to donate toys at his performance on Saturday, December 22.
Nine Democratic candidates have publicly declared a 2020 presidential campaign, 149 have filed to run with the Federal Election Commission, and more are expected to enter.
Just before Woodside’s Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) meeting, Woodside senior Zeejai Leonard borrows a bathroom key from English teacher Tony Mueller. Students who want to use a gender-neutral bathroom have to get a key to unlock it from a teacher and walk to one of the few staff bathrooms available for students of all gender identities to use. Going out of the way to find a gender-neutral bathroom is an experience that many of the members of the GSA are familiar with, and gender politics and issues of identity can be tough to navigate at Woodside.
