One crisis is in the air, the other in the water. One is in affluent Porter Ranch, Calif., the other in poverty-stricken Flint, Mich. And yet, in both the Aliso Canyon gas leak and the Flint water contamination crisis, the official responses were doomed to be...
Ben Reicher
I have been writing for The Standard, the Sierra Canyon High School newspaper, for four years, as Opinion Editor, News Editor, and currently Editor-in-Chief.
Colleges lack a major in campus violence: Not enough action taken to prevent violent crime
More than 16, 500 violent assaults were reported on American college campuses over only two years, according to the Department of Education. Both the government and university administrations have been slow to implement new regulations, or to take any definitive...
Dear Republicans, look before you leap: what can be learned from San Bernardino
First figure out the problem, then figure out the solution: a useful proverb that is being ignored by conservatives following the San Bernardino shooting. The possibility of violent criminals and terrorists entering the United States (both legally and not) that the...