With the Republican nomination process seemingly coming to close with Super Tuesday and Mitt Romney’s lead growing greater everyday, the time to start thinking about the General Election is here. The race will surely be between Romney and the Democratic incumbent Barack Obama. Obama is coming off a historic four-year term. He was left with [...]

Teenage hormones can get the best of teens sometimes, grinding at school dances being one.  The no grinding rule at Valley started a chain of events that could change things for students.  There is a point when there can be too much of something, like grinding at dances. Some people might say, oh its just grinding! What’s the [...]

A common question asked by students in the classroom is why am I learning this? I’m never going to use it.” but the truth is there is a reason for what we learn during high school. Here in Iowa the legislature has made the Iowa Core curriculum. Which is the learning plan that schools have [...]

I’ve always felt that SUV’s have the power to crush souls. When it’s a fully loaded, a black Cadillac SRX with bumper stickers saying ‘Santorum 2012′, ‘PROUD CHRISTIAN’ and ‘End Welfare’ I feel SUV’s have the power to destroy entire civilizations. The SRX, a hulking Goliath of excess, sped past me, it’s driver looking down from their tower of black, slick [...]

‘Jesús murió por nuestros pecados’, or ‘Jesus died for our sins’, is scrawled in between his shoulder blades written in an old-english front in faded black letters, below there sits a cross, complete with red roses and a bloody crown of thorns. Junior Alberto Pascalda’s 15 inch tattoo took hours to complete. Lied face down on a lazy boy recliner in the garage of his friend, [...]