Obama proposes free community college

BY BRYCE GOYER

On Thursday January 8th, President Obama announced a proposal to provide two years of free community college. Obama proposed providing two years of tuition to American students who could maintain good grades at their community college.

This idea was initially brought to light in a video Obama filmed on Wednesday on Air Force One and posted to Facebook. Obama will formally lay out his proposal Friday during a speech in Tennessee. Obama is currently in his pre -State of the Union tour.

It is estimated by the White House that the average community college student will save $3,800 annually with this new proposal.

Editorial: Wait, who’s John Boehner? The problem with young people and politics

Turn on the television. Flip through the channels.  Stop on your favorite channel; unfortunately, there’s a commercial on. Flip to another channel. There it is again, another commercial on “fixing America,” or “changing the future.” Another

The terminology of immigration reform

BY LEONARD BOPP

Perhaps in an effort to pull off a bipartisan success, or perhaps to try to have one last claim to fame in his last two years of office, President Obama has recently been pushing to move on the issue of immigration reform.

It’s about time we had this conversation.