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OPINION

Opinion: The government should rethink speed limits

Opinion: The government should rethink speed limits

Dalton Counts, Staff Columnist August 30, 2019
It is incredibly likely that you break the speed limit every time you drive, so the question needs to be asked: Why do we even have speed limits? 
Opinion: Crippling nicotine addiction: this time in mango!

Opinion: Crippling nicotine addiction: this time in mango!

Parker Lane, Staff Columnist August 29, 2019
While E-cigarettes are advertised as a safer alternative to traditional cigarettes, the truth is that E-cigarettes are too new to have undergone testing extensive enough to find all of the long-term effects.
Opinion: If Democrats aren’t united, they will lose in 2020

Opinion: If Democrats aren’t united, they will lose in 2020

Joshua Sussman, Staff Columnist August 28, 2019
The main problem the Democrats have is a lack of unity. The main strength the Republicans have is a united front.
Opinion: Community, not income determines happiness

Opinion: Community, not income determines happiness

Parker Grogan, Staff Columnist August 26, 2019
According to every statistic in the book, it is probably not where any students fresh out of college would choose to live, but after getting past what the city looked like on paper, I got to see how incredible Marion really is.  
Opinion: Parking passes are the University’s best scam

Opinion: Parking passes are the University’s best scam

Ian Capobianco, Staff Columnist August 26, 2019
It’s no wonder many students just risk getting a parking ticket rather than buy the pass ... It costs less!
Regulation, not banishment is the solution to gun violence

Regulation, not banishment is the solution to gun violence

Josh Sussman, Staff Columnist August 19, 2019
Guns need to be better regulated and controlled than they are now.
Gun control is necessary

Gun control is necessary

Heather Gann, Staff Columnist August 19, 2019
The United States has had 255 mass shooting this year alone, and it’s only August. 
We are more alike than unalike

We are more alike than unalike

Dalton Counts, Staff Columnist August 19, 2019
In the last few years, discussions have been replaced by arguments.
Lawsuits hinder hospitals

Lawsuits hinder hospitals

Joshua Sussman, Staff Columnist August 9, 2019
Hospitals are terrified of lawsuits, and it’s easy to see why. They are places where the sick and injured go to get better. Oftentimes these injuries are severe or the sicknesses obscure, thereby requiring complex and specialized treatments. These treatments are difficult and, if screwed up, could hurt or even kill the person receiving them. If the hospital does screw up, then they get sued.
Nonprofits should be exempt from all state taxes

Nonprofits should be exempt from all state taxes

Nathan Polk, Staff Columnist August 8, 2019
Nonprofits multiply the efforts of normal people by strategically coordinating those efforts to touch millions of people.
Alabama’s checks and balances are broken

Alabama’s checks and balances are broken

Olivia Davis, Staff Columnist August 7, 2019
Alabama is one of 44 states that allows line-item veto, the ability to delete specific sections of a bill that has been passed by the legislature. While many governors have this power, the U.S. president does not.
Today’s generation isn’t sensitive, they’re more informed

Today’s generation isn’t sensitive, they’re more informed

Heather Gann, Staff Columnist July 29, 2019
“Today, people get offended over everything!” is a sentiment that I and most likely everyone else in my generation has heard grumbled by an older relative over a news story or social media post.