On Halloween night, where is the line drawn when it comes to showing skin? Two Express writers take to the page to bring this issue to light.
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Laura CameronNews Editor
Sex is a hot-button issue no matter the time of year, but never…
By the time you read this, another election week will nearly be upon us.
As sure as I am that there will be elections, I’m equally as sure that somewhere around 90 percent of you reading this will not care about…
I’ll spare you the overly nerdy details about the current “gamergate” controversy.
I’ll sum it up quickly by saying that it started as a somewhat legitimate conversation about journalistic ethics involved in the video game industry.
It then devolved, as many things…
Travis DannerSPECIAL TO THE EXPRESSM y life is ruined.
At least it feels that way after the Oakland A’s lost the Tuesday, Sept. 30 12 inning Wild Card playoff to the Kansas City Royals after pretty much blowing at least two golden opportunities…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR:
Editor,
I had to respond to your editorial on the controversy surrounding the Ferguson, Missouri shooting (08/29/14, Vol. 26, No. 1). Like many reviewers, you are focused on the troubles that occurred after the shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed…
It was a good week for creepy internet shut-ins or jihad-waging terrorists.
If you’re a decent person who believes in privacy and the value of human life — eh, not so much.
Over the past week, two separate groups of people (each…
Ongoing crises in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip. Robin Williams’ suicide. The (considerably less important cosmically but nonetheless significant to me) 8-month-struggle of the Oakland Athletics.
Turning on the TV or checking Twitter was not a pleasant occurrence in the month of…
The 2014 valedictorian of Las Positas College is one of our own.
Yes, we’re bragging. We confess to the shameless self-promotion. But once you learn about Bekka Wiedenmeyer, it will be clear why we strayed from traditional objectivity.
Her impressiveness goes way beyond her…
Bekka WiedenmeyerEditor-in-chiefI have been at Las Positas College for four long years, and if there is anything I have learned, it’s that you have to have thick skin or you are going to crash and burn in life.
I learned some other important…
Travis DannerSpecial to The ExpressThe human race has been having the debate about climate change for decades and I’ve never heard or read a definitive answer to the question most commonly posed to its deniers — why would scientists lie?
According to NASA,…