Dear Fleabags, Every issue, I ask my writers to scrounge the campus for any student they can find to ask them our bi-monthly Whatcom Voices question. As a team, our staff will sit around our conference table and try to pick a winning question. This can take a while because…
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L’editor: It’s your story, but our story to tell
Dear sources, A student reporter’s job description is not up to you. Their job is, first and foremost, a learning experience. Every quarter new students sign up and we start from scratch. Journalism is a very hard writing style to adapt to. It is precise, unbiased, and concise. Students learn…
L’editor: Welcome back to the W double C
Ladies, gentlemen and everyone in betwixt, welcome or welcome back to Whatcom Community College. Transitioning back into school is always hard, even if you like it. Your first class is way too early, why did you think you could handle an 8 a.m.? It’s not even noon but before you…
L’editor: It feels like we only go backwards
By Apple Parry When President Donald Trump ran for office, his campaign slogan and anxiety-inducing hats read, “Make America Great Again.” Allow me to translate what it actually says: “I want all my straight white male privilege back.” On May 8, under the Trump administration, Alabama’s female mayor passed a…
L’editor: Lessons learned in the lagoon
By Apple Parry I wish I could tell you this story is being overdramatized, or that some of it was made up, but, this actually happened to me. It’s been pretty hard to talk about, but I’m finally ready to share it. On March 9, 2019, my friend Maggie and…
L’editor: a look behind the front page
By Apple Parry For every issue the Horizon prints, it is my responsibility to write a Letter from the Editor. A L’editor, we call it. I can write about almost whatever I want to. However, it’s currently 6:42 pm on production day, and what you see above is all I’ve…
L’editor: Financial insecurity
By Apple Parry Growing up chronically poor and having money insecurity…man, let me tell you how much of a soul-crushing combo that is. Money insecurity does not always call for someone to be “poor” to have it. In fact any one can have money insecurity, including children. Money insecurity is…
L’Editor: Give me education or give me debt!
By Ken Johnson Community college helps to bridge the chasm between the American dream and the American reality. The United States, more than most other countries, prescribes a narrative over the lives of its citizens: grade school, university, career, retirement, and then an uncomfortable death at an unfamiliar hospital, doped…
L’Editor: Matthew Whitaker: tall tales of toilets and time travel
By Ken Johnson Matthew Whitaker is the acting U.S. attorney general. He is a criminal, equal parts boner-pill hawker and H. H. Holmes. His antics are entertaining and stupid, but fundamentally Midwest horrible, like Chick-fil-A pumping legions of children to obesity. He is the personification of the land of all-American…
L’Editor: The U.S. Supreme Court is jammed with villains
By Ken Johnson The Supreme Court is supposed to be the Super Friends: wise, fair, and moral. That’s the impression my American Government class left with me. The executive branch might be brutal. The legislative branch might be corrupt. But not the judicial branch, not the Supreme Court, they weather…