On Tuesday, March 15, 2022, the Sunshine Protection Bill of 2021 passed the Senate by a unanimous voice vote. The bill would make Daylight Savings Time, which is currently in effect from March 13, 2022, to November 6, 2022, permanent. Daylight Savings Time, or DST, is a clock shift one hour forward in the interest...
Joe Rogan, a podcaster who has run his show The Joe Rogan Experience since 2009, has been called out for spreading COVID misinformation on his December 31st episode with Dr. Robert Malone. Spotify has refused to remove the episode from their platform, despite protests from those concerned about the effect of COVID and health misinformation. In the...
The end of March marks the end of facial hair for students at NDA. A prominent rule at NDA is that male students must have a clean-shaven face, but at the beginning of March they were given the choice to buy a $20 pin to grow out their facial hair for the month. “It’s a...
For the past few months, Bellows Free Academy social studies teacher Darrin Dezotelle has been having, “one of the greatest experiences of [his] life.” After adopting his soon-to-be-three-year-old son, Gus, from South Korea with his wife, Katie, the family has been settling in well and enjoying their lives together. “[Gus is] an awesome kid,” Dezotelle...
Do you know about the Amazon rainforest? Well, if you do or if you don’t you need to know that it’s in BIG danger right now and we should really focus our attention in trying to save it. I’m going to give you some reasons why. The Amazon rainforest is one of the biggest rainforests...
Nestle is the world’s largest foodstuff company, with the most recent backlash they are starting to lose business and becoming one of the most hated companies to exist. The companies biggest crimes are child labor, manipulating uneducated mothers, pollution, price fixing and mislabeling, a Nestle is a Swiss multinational food and beverage company, according to...
Mental health right now can be very hard to deal with in many ways. A lot of teens often find themselves comparing themselves to others, whether it be someone on social media, someone at school, or just a stranger at the store. Teens now also deal with the added pressure of being enough for friends,...
The drive for Ukraine is a success with so many donations that they are wrapping around the hallway. The drive for Ukraine was started by four girls: Alexandra Schweiner, Gabrielle Ruggles, Milana Volkova and Vladyslava Kylmenko. The girls met at a rally for peace to support Ukraine on February 27, and they reached out to...
The Scholastic Aptitude Test, or SAT, is now scheduled to take a turn to digital form by 2024. SATs have been around since 1926 and are used to determine what colleges students can get into. These tests are changing to online because they are said to be less stressful and more relevant to certain subjects....
For two years, COVID-19 has stayed ongoing and detrimental to the health of people, globally speaking. It remains lethal and, up to this day, has a persistent grasp on the lives of people who have been exposed to it. Anchorage’s COVID-19 Case Overview was recently updated January 24th with the help of data from Our...