From pot roast to skillet queso
Laney Rendon, News Editor
May 11, 2018
Filed under Opinion/Editorial, Showcase
New flavors of chips are the new wave. Coffee, bacon and milk chocolate don’t sound like your average "Lay's" flavor, yet they still hit the market. H-E-B recently came out with three new flavors, letting their employees roam the store and hand samples out to customers just trying to buy some brea...
News editor remembers dog
Laney Rendon, News Editor
May 10, 2018
Filed under Opinion/Editorial, Showcase
We used to have a dog. Tootsie was black, about the size of a of a lab - she was probably half lab, I don’t really remember - and she had pointy ears and a purple tongue. She looked a lot like my neighbor’s dog, Tokyo. The fact that their names were rare for dogs and both began with a T entertained...
Online user, beware
Rebecca Covington, Opinion Editor
April 23, 2018
Filed under Opinion/Editorial
Data breaches seem to dominate the media, with new websites losing customer and user information everyday because of hackers. The age of putting personal information, such as social Security numbers and credit card information online, which means putting trust into websites to protect data. In recent ...
Tragic anniversaries
Leslie Juarez, Staff Writer
April 19, 2018
Filed under Opinion/Editorial
They call it "America The Beautiful." That does not mean it is perfect. On April 20, 1999, in Littleton, Colo., two teens began shooting inside Columbine High School, killing 13 people and wounding 20 more. At the time, it was the worst shooting in U.S. history. On Feb. 14, another massive shooti...
8 ways to celebrate Earth Day
Laney Rendon and Rebecca Covington, News Editor and Opinion Editor
April 17, 2018
Filed under Opinion/Editorial, Showcase
Earth day is this Sunday, April 22. Earth Day has been celebrated for 47 years, since 1970. In 1969, a massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California pushed Senator Gaylord Nelson to introduce Earth Day to the United States. 2020 will mark the 50th anniversary, so it would be great if the world has seen ...
On the wrong side of the laws of physics
Emma Sipple, Co-Editor in Chief
April 17, 2018
Filed under Opinion/Editorial
As I watch the physics students carry their rubrics and guidelines for the boat project, I am filled with a sense of nostalgia - nostalgia in the sense that I am glad I am no longer in physics because all my projects were disasters. First was the catapult. I drilled and fitted together a catapult...
March Sadness: The Squeakqual
Bobby Palomin, Editor-in-Chief
April 11, 2018
Filed under Opinion/Editorial, Showcase, Uncategorized
March Madness is a time of pain and agony.The NCAA basketball tournament is in my opinion the greatest sporting event ever created, yet I have held a strong love/hate relationship with it. Last year I wrote about the woes and frustrations that come with making picks in a bracket and how frustrating i...
Ranger SZN Ep.3
Bobby Palomin, Wyatt Tomallo, and Hudson Murphy
April 6, 2018
Filed under Multimedia, Opinion/Editorial, Showcase, Sports
The boys talk about Villanova, what's going on in the NBA, and (believe it or not) soccer. https://soundcloud.com/robert-palomin/ranger-szn-ep3-nova-vs-all
Is color guard a sport?
Leslie Juarez, Staff Writer
April 5, 2018
Filed under Opinion/Editorial, Showcase
Of all the sports programs in the school, color guard is the most underrated. Color guards perform in front of hundreds of people to present a colorful and visual performance in the style of art, dance and theatre. "Color guard, especially during the winter season, usually consists of a set theme ...
Not endorsing endorsements
Emma Sipple, Co-Editor in Chief
March 5, 2018
Filed under Opinion/Editorial, Showcase
“What do you want to do in college?” the middle school counselors said. Baby 8th grade Emma had no idea what she wanted to do with her life, let alone what endorsement to pick for high school. Baby 8th grade Emma picked STEM as she was in Algebra I and expected to continue on that path in high ...
Clawing up the charts
Bobby Palomin and Hudson Murphy
February 26, 2018
Filed under Entertainment, Opinion/Editorial, Showcase
Bringing together all of his fellow TDE label affiliates, Kendrick Lamar is able to piece together one of the better albums of 2018 thus far on the “Black Panther” soundtrack. Typically soundtracks made for major movie productions are mostly flops with big named artists typically phoning in their per...
Fast food slows health
Leslie Juarez, Staff Writer
February 26, 2018
Filed under Opinion/Editorial, Showcase
Let’s face it: Fast food tastes way better than foods that are good for you. We have all been in a situation where we crave some sort of fast food from time to time, but just imagine how much calories are in fast food. According to thetoptens.com, pizza is the number one food that people like to eat. ...
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