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Jamie Gilbert, Guest artist • November 15, 2023

May 27 Weekly News Digest: Forensics team wins, Galesburg-Augusta High School walkout, and Midwest tornadoes

News Team • May 29, 2022

KPS News On Tuesday, May 31, masks will become optional for KPS students at school. The Loy Norrix Forensics team took a trip to Mackinac Island on the weekend of May 21st to compete in the Mackinac...

Ketanji Brown Jackson: her road to confirmation

Hannah Locke, Editor in Chief • April 18, 2022

On Feb. 25, 2022, President Biden nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to the United States Supreme Court. She will replace Justice Stephen Breyer, who announced his retirement on Jan. 27, 2022. Jackson...

March 4 Weekly Digest: KPS mask mandate, State of the Union Address and Russian sanctions

News Team • March 4, 2022

COVID-19 Update According to The New York Times’ COVID-19 dashboard, there have been over 54 thousand new cases each day of COVID in the United States as of March 3rd. Around 1.8 thousand cases are...

Voting rights in America: The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom to Vote Act failed to reform legislation

Chloe Rathbun, Staff Writer • February 11, 2022

The United States of America has functioned under basic principles of democracy since the conception of the Declaration of Independence: all men are created equal and are ensured “inherent and inalienable”...

As the UN Climate Summit began, this Kalamazoo teacher’s hunger strike ended

Hannah Locke, Editor in Chief • November 11, 2021

Joshua Gottlieb is a physics teacher at Kalamazoo Central High School. On Monday, Oct 25, Gottlieb began a week-long hunger strike to raise awareness for climate change and protest the changes being made...

President Biden set to go to Pfizer plant in Portage, Michigan on Friday

Lily Stickley, Feature Editor • February 19, 2021

President Joe Biden was set to visit the Pfizer plant in Portage, Michigan on Thursday, February 18. His visit was postponed to Friday, February 19 because of a snow storm. The last time President Biden...

A Historical Impeachment: What is it and how is it going to work?

Hannah Locke, Editor in Chief • January 21, 2021

Only three presidents have ever been impeached since the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1787. All three, Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump, were acquitted and able to continue serving their...

Another election, another reason to dissolve the Electoral College

December 12, 2020

As election season comes and goes, a bitter taste is left in the mouths of many Americans. Aside from the particularly nasty political climate this time around, a lingering issue plagued this election...

A break down of the 2020 presidential election

Sophie Grover, Arts and Entertainment Editor • December 7, 2020

2020 has been one crazy year, from a global pandemic to one of the biggest presidential elections in history. Between voter fraud claims and lawsuits filed by the Trump administration, this election has...

Mock U.S. Citizenship Test: Can the Average Loy Norrix Student Pass?

clairedomanick • October 12, 2013

In all three lunches, students were given a survey to determine if they could pass the mock U.S. Citizenship Test that reflects some of the questions that people from other countries are required to...