Welcome to the Silicon Valley, home of technology, creativity and innovation -- except when it comes to public transportation. No efficient public transportation system is currently in place, so commuters...

  Everybody has the right to free or affordable education. Many college students, however, spend their time worrying about how to pay back their student loans after graduating.  With a bad economy...

  Fair and simple, this measure should pass so that we can wash our hands of the death penalty once and for all. Some people may deserve to die, but the problems with capital punishment (also known as...

The overuse of communication technology is a bad habit that many students are stuck in, but it will never replace the joy of communicating with each other and seeing the expression on people's faces.  On...

  Abolishing capital punishment should not even be an option. A certain kind of closure is provided for families of victims when the murderer of their loved one is executed. If society wants to keep...

If you have just flipped through the channels in the last month, the name Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman should be no anomaly to you. After neighborhood watch volunteer Zimmerman killed the unarmed...

The U.S. Supreme Court has effectively silenced lawsuits against unwarranted strip searches by police since authorizing the searches for those arrested for minor offenses. Normally, jailers resort to...

As educated populations of Latino youth will soon be old enough to vote, the Tucson, Ariz. school district decided to ban ethnic and Mexican American studies in retaliation for a loss of right-wing political...