Occupy Wall Street protests steadily gaining momentum
Occupy Wall Street has been in 67 cities in 33 states. Although many protestors don’t know what they want, it is clear that they blame Wall Street greed for the United States’ financial issues and they are angry about economic inequality. Although they have been occupying and getting more attention than thought imaginable a cohesive [...]
This is not a drill
The middle water sprinkler in front of the theater broke and began an evacuation of the school, at 1:15 Thursday, Nov. 17. At 1:30, the building was cleared for student reentry. The official cause for the broken sprinkler was that head custodian Ron Loughton inadvertently broke the sprinkler while trying to replace some ceiling tiles. [...]
News Briefs – Nov. 2
Bringing them home President Obama announced that all U.S. troops will be withdrawing from Iraq by the end of the year. Out of 39,000 troops currently in Iraq, only about 150 will stay to help with arms sales. The decision will effectively end of the War in Iraq. This was a campaign promise made by [...]
Steve Jobs: The innovator of a generation
The world stood in shock as Apple Inc. announced that Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, had died on Oct. 5. Just a month ago, Jobs resigned as the CEO of Apple, possibly due to the rare form of pancreatic cancer he had. Though he is now gone, his influence on the computer industry and [...]
School district board elections preview
Election season is coming up and several of the Edmonds School District school board positions are up for grabs. MTHS is directly affected by the outcome of the election, which will determine who is on the board. Board members will make critical decisions that need to be made over the course of their members. Kory [...]
State Board of Education proposes changes to graduation requirements
The Washington State Board of Education has proposed new graduation requirements for the upcoming class of 2016. These new standards aim to better prepare students for college and to keep the education system up-to-date. The Board has proposed to add another required English credit, increase social studies by another .5 credits to include a .5 [...]
City of MLT teaches students about finances
Mountlake Terrace City Manager John Caulfield came to MTHS to talk about the city’s finances on Oct. 13. Caulfield spoke about how property tax dollars are accumulated and spent. Students who attended the presentation learned how restricted city revenues are and how they can be used. According to a document that was given out during [...]
Email system goes down for a week, affecting all ESD staff
A recent tragedy struck the teachers of MTHS as the Edmonds School District email server failed for a whole week. The Edmonds School District said that “the District’s email services were down due to data corruption. This corruption was a result of two sequential hardware failures of our Storage Area Network (SAN).” The mail stored [...]
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 [...]
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