Student Run Newspaper for McPherson College
By: Matthew Melchor Coming fresh off nationals, the Bulldog men and women track and field team did not disappoint. The team finished the day with 19 new personal bests and 11 first place finishers. Most impressive on the men’s side was sophomore Hector Bosquez opening his long jump year with a 6.70 meter long jump….
By: Matthew Melchor On January 19, 2019, surveillance equipment at the Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter, Florida places 77 year-old New England Patriots owner and billionaire Robert Kraft inside the spa. At approximately 4:45pm, Kraft paid a worker at the front desk and is taken to a back room where two women begin…
By: Matthew Melchor After the longest government shutdown in United States history, President Donald Trump and Congress agreed to a compromise that did not include funding for “The Wall,” which Trump hopes to build along the United States-Mexico border. To work around this, Trump declared a national emergency to build his wall, shifting $3.6 billion…
By: Matthew Melchor On February 5, 2019, President Donald Trump delivered the 2019 State of the Union Address days after temporarily ending the recent government shutdown. With only three weeks until the government shut down again, President Trump’s State of the Union address was important. After watching Trump speak, he received this message; his tone…
By: Matthew Melchor Around 11:00 pm on November 7, a small country music bar in Thousand Oaks, California became the location for yet another mass shooting. According to the Gun Violence Archive, this is the 307th mass shooting in the United States in 2018. The Gun Violence Archive classifies mass shootings as, “a single incident…
By: Matthew Melchor In June of 2018, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in a letter to President Donald Trump stating that he would be retiring effective July 31, 2018. This opened up another seat on the Supreme Court, allowing President Trump to appoint a second judge to the nation’s highest court in his first…
By: Matthew Melchor Almost two months ago, Apple announced three new phones: iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR. Shortly after the release of the new iPhones, Samsung announced: “A Galaxy Event” set for October 11. On October 3, Google announced a new Pixel phone coming and has recently burst onto the technology scene,…