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The Clarion

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The Clarion

Look up from your phone once in a while

Bailey Ayres, Sports Editor May 2, 2017

How often do you look at your phone? Do you feel like you always need your phone close by? You are not alone. A lot of us feel a need to a pull out our phones. Even though you may not have any notifications...

"Little Donnie"

“Little Donnie”

Mark Edwards, Artist May 2, 2017

That’s way too much, especially when 1 in 8 families go hungry

Alison Ahlgrim, News Editor May 2, 2017

Forty percent of food produced in the United States never gets eaten, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). At a time when one in eight families struggles to put food on the table, this...

‘Survivor’ outing was an act of violence

Adrienne Oliva, Staff Writer May 2, 2017

“Survivor,” one of America’s longest running reality TV shows, recently featured an act of violence that disturbed many viewers. Jeff Varner outed his fellow cast mate Zeke Smith as a transgender...

Cuts to after-school funding have a cost

Kaziah J. Anderson, Madison College Student April 18, 2017

Regardless of political beliefs, we all have similar ideals about children’s needs. We want the best education possible for them. We want them to be healthy and well-adjusted in society. We all want...

What is Trump’s strategy in Syria?

Zach Mueth, Staff Writer April 18, 2017

Donald Trump can be described with many different words, but to use the phrase “cool and calculated” would be inaccurate at best. His extremely questionable response to the April 4 chemical weapons...

LGBTQIA+ questions excluded from US Census

Adrienne Oliva, Staff Writer April 18, 2017

The United States Census Bureau has made the decision to exclude proposed questions about gender and sexuality on the 2020 census. This came as a disappointment to many members of the LGBTQIA+ community,...

Don’t reject climate science: GOP environmental plans could place the planet in even greater peril

Don’t reject climate science: GOP environmental plans could place the planet in even greater peril

James Roufus, Staff Writer April 18, 2017

From sea to shining sea, lovers of Mother Earth are under attack like Kenilworth Castle. Not only locally from Gov. Scott Walker and his followers, but from President Donald Trump as well. Back...

GuestView: Public broadcast funds at risk in budget

Jennifer Ferro, Los Angeles Times/TNS April 6, 2017

President Donald Trump’s preliminary budget, released in mid-March, slashes a number of domestic programs. The one that hits closest to home for me is the total defunding of the Corp. for Public Broadcasting,...

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