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What is the Recall Newsom Movement?

John Kim, Reporter February 5, 2021

              California Governor Gavin Newsom is currently facing some challenges to his gubernatorial position.  After footage of his dinner...

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A Guide to the COVID-19 Vaccine

Vikesh Dheeriya, Reporter February 5, 2021

The recent distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine has reached the arms of most frontline health care workers, while students, teachers, and the general public wait for their chance to receive the vaccine...

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PV School District Reopens Elementary Schools Temporarily

What do vaccines and new relief mean for returning back to campuses?
Aidan Sun, Editor-in-Chief February 5, 2021

When schools closed on Mar. 13 of last year, it soon became abundantly clear that online school was not ideal and that a solution was quickly needed to get students back into classrooms.  Since then,...

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Rocky Reef Restoration

Andrew Carpenter, Reporter February 5, 2021

The marine ecosystem off Palos Verdes is full of biodiversity and life, yet years of Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) runoff from the Montrose Chemical Corporation of California and the Portuguese...

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“A Consequence of the Circumstances”

One Hill Project Proposes Actionable Recommendations to PVPUSD to Help Students’ Mental Health and Academic Well-being
Aidan Sun and Aurora Khatibi Garrity February 5, 2021

On Jan. 27, Student Board Members of the PVPUSD Board of Education, Sarah Liu and Tilly Safavian, brought attention to COVID-19 effects on high school students, proposing potential solutions in response...

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Guo and His Robots Roll to the Finish

John Kim, Reporter December 11, 2020

After months of hard work and countless overtimes in the PVIT room, the robot is finally ready to roll. For years, PVHS senior Aaron Guo has toiled away at perfecting his robot for his next VEX competition. Guo...

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Madame Vice President: What Kamala Harris Means to Women

Sarah Liu, Editor-in-Chief December 11, 2020

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’s career has been built in spite of history. The days when governance was only to be done by men? History.  But “that little girl” who was bussed to school,...

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Georgia’s Senate Races Head into Overtime

Aidan Sun, News Editor December 11, 2020

The Nov. 3 election saw President-Elect Joe Biden flip the traditionally Republican-leaning state of Georgia in favor of Democrats as he added the state’s 16 electoral votes to his overall total of 306...

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What is QAnon?

A primer on the internet conspiracy taking over Americans’ screens, and how it has affected people’s relationships with family and friends.
Sarah Liu, Editor-in-Chief December 11, 2020

The resurgence of Pizzagate conspiracy theories or the influx of posts about #SaveTheChildren that can be found on social media are part of a larger, wild network of conspiracy theories called QAnon, and...

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How the Palos Verdes Peninsula Became a DDT Dumping Site

Sydney Lyle, Social Media Editor December 11, 2020

From 1947 to 1982, Los Angeles was home to the largest dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT) manufacturing company in the nation, the Montrose Chemical Corporation.  During this time, wastewater from...

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Will the Fast Fashion Bubble Ever Burst?

Aurora Khatibi Garrity, News Editor December 11, 2020

  “I don’t support Shein, I just bought clothing from there once,” senior Avery Simonian said when asked about the newest fast fashion corporation that has made its way from every high...

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Bye Trump, Biden is Back

What does the new Biden administration mean for America? See students’ reflections on the recent election and opinions on the candidates
Aidan Sun, News Editor November 18, 2020

                          Build back better.  That’s President-Elect Joe Biden’s plan...

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