President Obama presents plan to Congress aimed at helping economy
President Barack Obama laid out a new plan to spur job growth in a struggling economy where the unemployment rate currently stands at 9.1 percent during a September 8 speech to Congress. The bill is called the American Jobs Act and is aimed at helping bolster the economy. The $447 billion plan includes $245 billion [...]
Texas continues to be ravaged by the worst fire season in state history
Even though it was a pretty mild summer for the Pacific Northwest, many residents complained about how summer came late and didn’t start getting nice until near the end. But in reality, the people of Texas had it much worse. Texas had record droughts this past summer. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, as of [...]
Running Start program slightly modified
Due to budget cuts, the Washington State Legislature has made changes to the Running Start program by minimizing the number of credits that will be tuition-free for students on July 26, 2011. It also limits the number of classes a student can take at the high school while taking a certain number of credits at [...]
Edmonds School District considering revising senior project guidelines
High school counselors and senior project coordinators in the Edmonds School District are concerned about the workload of seniors, which is full of college applications, SATs, jobs and more. To fix this problem, they are hoping to revise the senior project guidelines by combining the old guidelines and new guidelines. The guidelines that are being [...]
New assistant principal ready to start school year
Even though he’s still adjusting to his new office, new MTHS assistant principal Peter Schurke has already begun to fill the room with his humor and humble approach. Schurke, 40, was previously a science teacher for 11 years at Ingraham H.S. in Seattle. When the MTHS assistant principal vacancy was posted in June, after former [...]
Teen author in Brier
Tiffany Leahy is a 16-year-old author living near Brier who was only twelve-years-old when she started writing her first book, Annadyomene in 2005. She completed it around her 13th birthday in 2006. She was inspired to write the book by a dream. According to Leahy, “One night I had a dream about a girl with [...]
WHACK! Education loses big at the budget ax hits hard in Olympia
New plans are coming in from all different angles on how to deal with the problems communities face with funding schools and public education. With students already feeling new pressures of having to pay for printing, why would we want to stress more students with additional teacher pay cuts, possible larger class sizes, and losing [...]
Danil Vishniakov: Selected from thousands for study abroad program in Germany
Junior Danil Vishniakov was one of 75 students across the United States to receive the Congress-Budenstag Youth Exchange Program (CBYX) scholarship to live in Germany for the 2011-2012 academic school year. The scholarship is worth $20,000 and covers the cost of round trip airfare, tuition, insurance and housing. Since 1983, the German Bundestag and the [...]
Earthquake, tsunami wreak destruction
I was admiring the ocean view from our house on Okinawa when the phone rang. It was my somewhat over-protective father calling to tell me that there was a massive earthquake in Tokyo. My first thought jumped to my husband Andrew, who is a ’92 MTHS graduate. I had dropped him off at the airport [...]
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