Donald Trump acquitted by the Senate
Lily Stickley, Feature Editor
February 12, 2020
On February 5, 2020, the senate voted to acquit President Donald Trump in the impeachment trial. A vote to acquit means the Senate believes he is not guilty. While President Trump was impeached in the house, he was not removed from office in the Senate. “Forty-eight senators supported a verdict ...
President Trump faces impeachment because of the Articles of Impeachment
Lily Stickley, Feature Editor
December 20, 2019
House Democrats have released articles of impeachment. The two articles are specifically accusing President Trump of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The abuse of power charge is a result of President Trump’s phone call with Ukraine, “…soliciting the government of Ukraine to publi...
President Trump Proposes Cuts to the Education Budget
Brandon Schnurr, Web Editor
April 28, 2019
With each passing year, the fiscal budget for the federal government, or the amount of money the government plans to spend in a year, is adjusted by the president of the United States in order to better balance and distribute the funds of the federal government. While the president creates the budget,...
Hoadley Wins the 60th Congressional District of Kalamazoo
Joshua McKissic
January 22, 2019
Kalamazoo County, the intersection of hope between Chicago, the Windy City, and Detroit, the Motor City, is home to the House of Representatives 60th Congressional District. On November 6th, the nation-wide midterm elections were held. For the 60th Congressional District, these elections determined ...
Many New Faces in Midterm Election, Still Doesn’t Represent the Millennials
Brandi-Rose Phiri, Business Manager
December 20, 2018
The United States just had a midterm election on November 6th, and many monumental milestones were reached. Thirty new women are coming into Congress including the fist lesbian, muslim and Native-American women. The Democrats took over the house, and in our own state of Michigan, marijuana was made lega...
Students Write to Representatives Calling for Change in Gun Control Legislation
Grace Marshall
March 22, 2018
If you had stepped into Sarah Leineke’s classroom, located in the B-wing of Loy Norrix on Friday, March 2, you would have seen somewhere around 15 students sitting with laptops, paper and pens, writing letters to their Michigan representatives. The students were writing to express their discontent wi...
The Anatomy of a Congressional Campaign
Nora Hilgart-Griff
December 8, 2016
I’ve spent the last few months as an intern for the Paul Clements for Congress campaign. Paul was the Democrat running in southwest Michigan against our current representative Fred Upton, on a platform endorsed by Bernie Sanders and the nonprofit organization OurRevolution. I learned a lot about m...
Closed for Business: The 5 W’s of a Government Shutdown
Ben Dunham
October 4, 2013
If you have paid any attention to the news lately, you’ve probably figured out that, like any other time of the year, something is going wrong in Washington, D.C. Depending on where you figured this out, the blame could be placed on Democrats, Republicans, the President, or any combination of the three...
