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Player’s cannabis exemption request denied by NFL

Player’s cannabis exemption request denied by NFL

By Efrain Valdez, Social Media Editor May 1, 2018

Last month, Mike James became the first player in National Football League (NFL) history to make an official administrative request for exemption from the league’s cannabis ban for medical use. James’...

Televised police murders normalize racial bias

Televised police murders normalize racial bias

By Robert Clinton, Opinion Editor May 1, 2018

I make it a habit not to watch the murder of unarmed black people when those videos surface because when I do, it feels like a piece of my humanity is lost as well. What makes it worse, I know that saturating...

District board trustees ignore sexual harassment

District board trustees ignore sexual harassment

By Denis Perez, Editor-in-Chief April 24, 2018

When a person commits a horrible offense, those close to that person have to decide whether to be on the right side of justice or on the side of protecting a friendship. For the Contra Costa Community...

Undocumented students cannot share in Food & Wine’s success

By Editorial Board April 24, 2018

Every year local celebrities, vendors and residents come together in the name of food, wine and the opportunity to offer culinary arts students a chance to travel the world at the annual Food and Wine...

‘Privilege’ heightens sense of responsiblity

By Alondra Gallardo, Opinion Editor April 17, 2018

I do not want to live in a country or world where every human does not have access to basic human rights, therefore, I recognize the benefits I was born into. No one has to remind me of the advantages...

AB 540 students face dead-end opportunities

AB 540 students face dead-end opportunities

By Editorial Board April 17, 2018

Last October, Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 68 in an attempt to offer the prospect of a cost-effective education to a wider swath of California’s undocumented student population. But after these...

Litigious Indoctrination

Litigious Indoctrination

By Editorial Board April 10, 2018

Creating change through social action takes time. Some protests spark course corrections overnight, while other actions take months or even years to have meaningful effect. For as long as many...

American workforce hijacked by corporations

By Ryan Geller, News Editor April 10, 2018

There is this idea that in college you are preparing yourself to compete in the job market. Why is there such competition for jobs? It seems addressing the challenge of food, clean water and...

Male perspective clouds reality of egalitarian life

By Alondra Gallardo, Opinion Editor March 21, 2018

Inside the society we live in we all have roles that we are expected to take on so that as a whole we can function in a somewhat orderly fashion. However, when we live in a society that is built up by...

Media coverage, commentary feed negative stigma

Media coverage, commentary feed negative stigma

By Efrain Valdez, Social Media Editor March 21, 2018

If one thing is certain in life, it is the fact that women are marginalized and given the short end of the stick in everything. In the sports world women are continuously being humiliated by the media...

Physical needs overshadowed

Physical needs overshadowed

By Editorial Board March 21, 2018

As Women’s History Month comes to a close, it feels good to know that Contra Costa College administrators, staff and professors all made a concerted effort to ensure the accomplishments of women, local...

ASU leaves campus in dark

ASU leaves campus in dark

By Editorial Board March 14, 2018

In most college campuses, the hub of political discourse and the place for students to plan future endeavors is at a student government meeting. But, sadly, for students at Contra Costa College, legislative...

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