Nick Valenzuela, Connection Staff
February 28, 2013
Filed under Current Affairs, Opinion
The Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act may end up hurting a portion of those it was intended to help.
As the ACA takes effect, geography will play a much larger role in the rates Americans, especially Californians, pay for health insurance.
Under the ACA, insurance agencies cannot factor gender or a patient’s...
Katana Brown, Connection Staff
February 27, 2013
Filed under Current Affairs, Opinion
It’s truly sad that many businesses won’t hire a person due to visible tattoos as if a person who has tattoos defaces the company’s value.
Those with tattoos are often intelligent and genuinely good people who just use bolder statements to express themselves creatively. Tattoos can tell stories and create vivid images...
Latisha Gibson, Connection Staff
February 25, 2013
Filed under Current Affairs, Opinion
Women are finally getting the recognition that they have been waited centuries for.
The fight to have the same rights as men is at the tips of our fingers but there are people questioning a recently passed bill which allows women to serve in combat.
The big arguments against the combat bill are hygiene and the integration...
Jonathan Rich, Connection Staff
February 25, 2013
Filed under Current Affairs, Opinion
Equality, to be equal, to have the same value. Men, women, young and old all deserve to be treated equal and have the same opportunities but at the same time, are all able to achieve and excel in the same areas?
For example, if 90-year-old seniors felt they weren't equally being hired at banks and managed to pass a bill...
Stephan Starnes, Connection Staff
February 19, 2013
Filed under Current Affairs, Opinion
A federal appeals court’s decision to call the sex offender ban on Facebook unconstitutional is a bit of an awkward situation. It’s unclear how social media fits into the 225-year-old document, but constitutionalism shouldn’t even be a factor.
Mark Zuckerberg and every other brain behind Facebook should have instituted...
February 7, 2013
America was built on the very foundation of immigration. The roots of this country reside in the fact...
Zach Hannigan, Editor-In-Chief
February 4, 2013
Filed under Current Affairs, Opinion
Progression is a word usually reserved for politics, but in the case of the Boy Scouts of America organization, it could be the very word that saves them.
The BSA national board is considering lifting the ban on gay scouts and leaders and allowing local organizations to decide on the issue for themselves.
The organization’s...
Jonathan Rich & Josh Slowiczek, Connection Staff
February 1, 2013
Filed under Current Affairs, Opinion
By Jonathan Rich
Cold, hard steel ejecting copper shells and sending hot lead down range is a thrill and a way of life for most of us Americans who choose to use our right to bare arms.
Smith and Wesson, Colt, Kimber and Remington are just a few of the companies that make up a $32 billion industry that supply me with all ...
January 30, 2013
We all know that the law protects people from discrimination based on sex, race, religion and sexual...
Kevin Frodahl, Copyeditor
January 29, 2013
Filed under Current Affairs, Opinion
The School shooting in Newtown, Conn. may have occurred over a month ago, but pundits from both ends of the political spectrum continue to use the tragedy as ammunition for gun control bickering.
It may be important to analyze our gun laws, especially in the wake of a massacre that wouldn’t have been possible without guns....
Britni Alford, Features Editor
January 29, 2013
Filed under Current Affairs, Opinion
The recent, tragic shooting of Newton, Conn. has raised many questions about the safety of our nation’s schools.
Several schools have changed policies and reemphasized policies already in place, such as locking all classroom doors during school hours.
Recently, there has been talk about providing guns in the classrooms....
