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Employees’ actions reflect on their employers

Kenan Jackson October 14, 2014

With the boom in social media and other types of technologies, employers now have access to employee’s personal information that they could not have had 20 years ago.Many employers make their employees...

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Equality needed for domestic violence victims

Franchesca Walker October 14, 2014

Domestic violence has recently become a hot topic in the media. With stories circulating around professional male athletes attacking women, there has been uproar for affirmative action to drop them from...

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Editorial: Three feet too far

Troy Orem October 8, 2014

To say that bicycles are the scourges of the road is an understatement. They are some of the most inconsiderate users of the public roadways and yet our government continues making special concessions...

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Sharing is not just caring: How the Three Feet for Safety Act will help make roads safer for all

Torrey Spoerer October 8, 2014

On Tuesday Sept. 16, a new state road law cited as the Three Feet for Safety Act, requiring motorists to give bicyclists a minimum 3-foot barrier of space at all times, officially went into effect and...

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New law won’t fix real problems: Three Feet for Safety Act will increase tension between motorists and cyclists

Celia Jimenez October 8, 2014

On Sept. 16, the Three Feet for Safety Act became effective in California with the intention of providing safer roads for cyclists and creating a better interaction between drivers and cyclists. But will...

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Editorial: Making spare time for activism

Angelica Wallingford September 16, 2014

It’s a scene all too familiar for a City College student. Rushing from the trolley station or one of the parking garages to get to class when a person, clipboard in hand, asks them to sign a petition...

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Valuing our verbal democracy

Lydia Grijalva September 16, 2014
Petitioning is a practice of democratic values
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Student voices for sale

Torrey Spoerer September 16, 2014
How phony campaigners-for-hire are taking over the City College campus
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Photo credit: Michele Suthers

Associated Students (not quite a) Government

Diego Lynch May 20, 2014

The Associated Student Government (ASG) of City College has a problem: It is not a government, which might be fine. There are many great things that are not governments. And certain events the ASG attend...

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Graphic by Rolando Ortiz, City Times

Turnout relies on effective access to visible candidates

Christopher Handloser May 20, 2014

Voter turnout in the 2012 Obama reelection was 57.5 percent. Kevin Faulconer was recently elected mayor of San Diego with less than 30 percent of the electorate giving their say. City College’s latest...

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The east is mostly privately owned land, but in the west, much of what were public lands have been purchased or protected by the federal government.  (Courtesy graphic)

The Invigilator — We the people do not need militarized regulation

Christopher Handloser May 1, 2014

About 80 miles east of Las Vegas, there is a conservation effort gone horribly wrong. The decades-old conflict between the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and a family of ranchers named Bundy,...

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Photo credit: Michele Suthers

Killer whales should not be held captive

Michelle Moran April 18, 2014

Wonder why you see dozens of people protesting outside theme parks with animals as the star attraction? These activists will not back down until something is done about animals being held captive. The...

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