By Paul Menke
On November 8, 2016, after a long and brutal battle between Democratic nominee Hillary R. Clinton and Republican nominee Donald J. Trump, the people of the United States elected the 45th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, who lost the national popular vote but won the electoral college by a significant margin.

In the year since Trump’s election, political tensions have been higher than ever between liberals and conservatives, with radical groups like BLM, Antifa, Neo-Nazis and white nationalists stirring the pot, along with many biased news organizations. In many cases, friendships have been tainted, ruined and prevented simply on the basis of opposing political opinions.

By Lilly Rogers
When our founding fathers created the Second Amendment, they didn’t think guns would advance in the way they have. Now in the twenty-first century, guns are much too easy to access and even more deadly.

The debate on whether to change our gun laws has gone on for years. On one hand, many see that making guns harder to access is the best way to prevent mass shootings; others have deemed this as unconstitutional. But the ones who have done this seem to think that the goal is to completely take guns away, when really it’s just to make them harder to access.

By Sarah McNamara
Just two years ago when a whole class had to use computers you were sent to the library, where many classes fought to use the once hot commodity: desktop computers. After having my Chromebook for two years I have learned some of its functionalities and have grown to see the benefits of the one-to-one initiative.

By Molly Ryan & Lilly Rogers 
“We’re not spending money on that anymore. We consider that to be a waste of your money to go out and do that.” This was a statement from the director of the office of management and budget, Mick Mulvaney regarding the globe’s climate change issues. However, what might be “crazy” to our presidential office, is not crazy to a lot of people.

By Ciara Oakley-Robbins
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Saturday April 30th was a day to remember for Mashpee High School. They hosted the third annual Mini Maker Faire. In previous years it has been hosted at Cape Cod Community College. This year, Mashpee really built up their technology center and makerspace and hosted the Maker Faire. As a senior at Mashpee who is very involved in the technology department, I was very excited when I heard this event was coming. I worked alongside Mr. Looney, Mr. Blute, and Mrs. Hough to get the Maker Faire happen. I even decided to get my own table and show off things I made in wood shop.

By Asia Rubidoux

Our high school graduation is June 4th 2016. Then we’re taking our first step as adults into the real world. Before we take these scary steps though, we still have one last summer. What is the class of ‘16 planning to do with their last summer? When I asked some of the seniors, I got a lot of different replies, but one thing the replies had in common was that they were all said with excitement.