The DePaulia
Nika Schoonover, Politics Editor|February 14, 2021
Despite his best efforts to tout “progress,” President Joe Biden is still reminiscent of past eras of American politics in which promises of social change are over-promised and under-served.
With a gridlocked Congress, Biden now faces the difficulty of following through on the policy change he has promised throughout his campaign while attempting to unite ever-growing divisions between the two parties.
At any other time, Biden’s election into the presidency would be just that: business as usual. Except, it’s not just any other time. As a nation, we are just coming out of the Trump presidency –– a presidency that revealed a growing far-right extremist movement and has made many more fervently question the foundations of American democracy.
Spencer Mathews
Before the spring semester of the 2018-19 school year, I had thought many times about joining the Western Herald to potentially see what I could do to contribute to the sports section.
I was coasting along with my schoolwork while writing for a couple different online sports websites and I had planned on continuing down that road. Living 35 minutes off campus, that was just too big of a logistical challenge to commit myself to anything that occurred on campus outside of my classes, especially with the other jobs I held in my hometown.
But things changed during that semester after a conversation I had in my News Writing and Reporting class with former editor-in-chief of the Herald (sports editor at the time), and now a good friend of mine and MLive reporter, Samuel Robinson.