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The federal government shouldn’t be the priority

Mark Linker Opinion Editor    When sitting on my couch at 5:30 on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, we have yet to know what the outcome of the 2024 presidential election will be. However, regardless of the results, there’s an undeniable truth that can be taken from this election cycle as a whole. Since 2016, there’s […]

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Donald Trump didn’t win. The Manosphere did.

Michael Keehan Staff Writer      Let me make something clear: Trump supporters are not inherently bigoted. While the last few months have shown very ugly sides of MAGA rhetoric, as I discussed in another piece two months ago about the cat-eating hoax, there are still many reasons one would’ve voted for Trump, and the […]

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Bernie Sanders has been betrayed by the Democratic Party

  Sevan Sinton Associate News Editor   Bernard “Bernie” Sanders was born on Sept. 4, 1941 in Brooklyn, to Jewish-Polish parents Eli and Dorothy Sanders. His father, Eli, found modest work as a paint salesman, managing to sparingly provide for his two sons, Larry and Bernie. “It’s not that we were poor, but [there was […]

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Homan, Wiles among Trump cabinet appointees

Sevan Sinton Associate News Editor President-elect Donald Trump has begun appointing his cabinet at a record pace, but not without backlash and controversy.  The President-elect appointments include notables such as former rival Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, independent turned Trump-backer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health & Human Services, as well as […]

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Trump’s cat-eating claims aren’t just lies, it’s an age-old tactic of normalizing racism

Michael Keehan Staff Writer   If you’ve seen or heard about the debate, you’ve probably heard former president Donald Trump’s claim about Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio eating cats and geese. Obviously, it’s false, and a single search can debunk this multiple times. But to Springfield’s residents, it’s unsurprising this big lie appeared, and even […]

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The new democratic hero of rural America

  Mark Linker Opinion Editor  PHOTO COURTESY OF FREERANGE STOCK With the addition of Tim Walz to the Harris presidential campaign, the Democrats are making a statement. The statement being made in some ways is an admission of defeat and mistake on the part of the party for much of the past decade. Since the […]

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Millersville University hosts Congressional debate on campus

Pennsylvania State House Democrat Party candidates Izzy Smith-Wade-El and Janet Diaz debated on campus. PHOTO COURTESY OF MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY Morgan Huber Managing Editor Millersville University served as the venue for a congressional debate this past week, featuring Democratic candidates Janet Diaz and Ismail “Izzy” Smith-Wade-El as prospective representatives for congress. The debate, which took place in […]