This is no Disney movie
Recently, Praxedis G. Guerrero, Mexico, has been under international scrutiny for a reason other than drugs and violence. Last week, Marisol Valles Garcia, a 20-year-old…
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Letters to the Editor – Nov. 3, 2010
RE: Those damned election signs (Oct. 20, 2010) I couldn’t agree more that those dreaded election signs are nothing if not impolite and ugly to…
Economies Gone Wild
Let’s take a look at the economy in a few other parts of the world and their effect in North America. In the first week…
Our daily bread
It has been said, “No good deed goes unpunished.” I’ve recently seen the wisdom in those words firsthand. The incident in question occurred last week….
Find municipal politics a little boring?
Another municipal election is here. Yet, besides an occasional lawn sign or article tucked somewhere in the newspaper, it would not be difficult to forget…
A triumph of courage
The terrible plight of 33 Chilean miners gripped the attention of people around the world. It has been estimated that over 1 billion people were…
Capitalism wasn’t destroyed in a day
Soon after starting The Plan, I realized how tiresome it would become and how complicated it was to answer the question, “So, what do you…
Letters to the Editor – Oct. 27, 2010
RE: In search of an ideal study spot (Sept. 28, 2010) Thank you for the excellent article on study space in Dafoe Library by Erin…
If you don’t vote, don’t complain
As students, there is rarely a time in our lives when we do not have something to complain about. Anything from long lines at Starbucks,…
It should get better
In response to a recent rash of LGBT*-teen suicides, Dan Savage and his partner sat down and made a video. The video setup was simple,…