Opinion

Editorial: Editor-in-chief finishes at LPC on a high note

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…

Opinion by LPC Express May 16, 2014

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Express EIC says goodbye to Las Positas

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…

Fresh Takes Opinion by LPC Express May 9, 2014

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Hushed climate change crisis helps companies make profit

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,…

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Donald Sterling makes Americans face palm

Travis DannerSpecial to the ExpressDonald Sterling, you are an idiot. You’re about to lose your sports franchise, the Los Angeles Clippers, because of the fact that you’re an idiot. You told your mistress that she shouldn’t be publicly associating with black people, and she…

Fresh Takes Opinion by LPC Express April 25, 2014

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The A’s need to stay in the Bay Area

Travis Danner Special to The ExpressMy love affair with the Oakland A’s started on a warm July night at the Coliseum when I was 10 years old. In some ways, part of me has been frozen in the moment I first saw that…

Fresh Takes Opinion by LPC Express April 10, 2014

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Republicans point U.S. in the wrong direction

Not to make light of the tragic disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 — but lately I have an even bigger mystery top-of-mind. How do people in this day and age continue to vote for Republicans? Seriously. On Wednesday, April 8, the “Grand Old Party”…

Fresh Takes Opinion by LPC Express April 2, 2014

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Affordable Care Act opens eyes to America’s health

Travis DannerSpecial to The ExpressI didn’t take my health very seriously when I was young and I suspect my country didn’t either at the time. I grew up in the 1990s and as long as I can remember, I ate a lot of…

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The US says ‘So long’ to privacy

Travis Danner Special to The Express Privacy is dead. Sure, President Barack Obama announced some pretty strong reforms to the National Security Agency’s (NSA) bulk data collection practices on March 24 in an attempt to limit the amount of personal phone data the agency can…

Fresh Takes Opinion by LPC Express March 21, 2014

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Lack of classroom etiquette turns LPC into adult daycare

If you go to class and talk during the lecture to the point where anyone else is distracted, you are stealing. You are stealing the time of the instructor and everyone else in the room. You’re stealing money from the people who have…

Fresh Takes Opinion by LPC Express March 6, 2014

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Russia, Ukraine get the world ready for second Cold War

Travis Danner SPECIAL TO THE EXPRESS So war again, then? Well, the stage is certainly set for that. Russia has essentially invaded the country known as Ukraine, reigniting old tensions between the United States and the former Soviet Union. Who doesn’t like a sequel? “The Cold…

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