by Christina Lucchesi Student Contributor A fast moving brush fire scorched over 540 acres of land in the Windy Point area just outside of Palm Springs on Sept. 24. Three helicopters surveyed the site and dumped water on the fire. Several bulldozers were used to help douse the fire. Over 150 firefighters including those from [...]
by Ivan Delgado
Residents living in Indio will be seeing a lot more college students roaming around their city by spring of 2014. That’s when construction on a new COD campus is “targeted for completion” and will open its doors to students. The former Greyhound bus station that has inhabited downtown Indio for years was recently purchased by College of the Desert (COD). It will be the site of the new Eastern Valley Center. The building on the 40 thousand square foot lot, at 45500 Oasis St., was demolished a few months ago.
Sir, Last Monday, the Associated Students of College of the Desert’s student senate (or ASCOD) turned down a motion that, if approved, would have declared ASCOD’s opposition to the current wars in the Middle East and given it an antiwar stance. As co-organizer of the first West Coast chapter of Come Home America, a non-partisan [...]
by Christopher Livingston
Activists in the United States are looking to initiate their own version of the Arab Spring.
by Ani Mikaelian
On Friday, Sept. 30, Tribeca Film’s “Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure” was released throughout the country. The documentary is written and directed by Matthew Bate. The film first opened in Tucson, Ariz. at The Loft Cinema.
Two Americans, two reactions by Jayel Aheram Editor-in-Chief There was justified anger over the execution of Troy Davis, but why is there none over the White House and the U.S. government’s assassination of American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki? Ivan Eland questioned this double standard, saying that “at least Troy Davis got due process (however flawed), as [...]
by Debbie Fried
Citizens and representatives from local government recently faced off to debate whether the closure of the upper portion of the Bump and Grind trail was justified.
Social network upgrade pushes privacy boundaries by Andrew Morales Section Editor “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” This is the gripe that many Facebook users have with the new changes rolled out by the social media giant. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced them at the f8 Conference in San Francisco. New facets of the [...]
by Kelsey Carr
On July 27, the Palm Springs city council approved, in a 5-0 vote, putting a 1 percent sales tax increase on the Nov. 8 ballot. Known as “Measure J”, the local tax increase follows a state-wide sales tax decrease of 1 percent which went into effect last July.
by Danielle Kedzior
A proposed bill by Republican lawmakers making its way through the House of Representatives aims to cut funds to Head Start by $2 billion, or about a quarter of President Barack Obama’s 2011 $8.2 billion request for budget cuts. The preschool program for low-income families originally had an allottment of $7 billion from the government.
