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The Student News Site of Rock Bridge High School

Bearing News

The Student News Site of Rock Bridge High School

Bearing News

on removing Instagram likes

on removing Instagram likes

Maddie Orr November 21, 2019
The popular social media app Instagram recently removed like count from posts. Now, only the account owner can view their personal likes on each post.
Vietnam veteran, Mr. Sells, shares his experience with the Honor Flight, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing veterans with honor and closure. Members of Young Republicans planned to raise $1000 for Honor Flight during the assembly, Please, please help a veteran. We love you and we love America, said Sells. Photo by Sarah Mosteller.

on Veterans’ Day

Olivia Peters November 12, 2019
Students at RBHS talk about there opinions about why they believe Veterans Day is important to them.
President Trumps rally took place at the Columbia Regional Airport under a hangar. The hangar reached its full capacity before 5:00 p.m., according to KOMU News. Photo by Allie Pigg.

on Trump withdrawing troops from Syria

Amira McKee October 18, 2019

President Trump ordered the Pentagon to withdraw 1,000 troops from northern Syria this week in response to the Turkish push into the Kurd populated region. Trump received significant backlash from Republican...

A man reads his income tax return.

on income tax brackets

Will Cover October 7, 2019

Following numerous tax cuts, particularly at the federal level, taxes on the wealthiest 400 U.S. households paid a lower tax rate than all the lower income groups that the data looked at. The top federal...

“First of all, they can’t impeach him because they don’t have anything on him. They’ve investigated him four times, they haven’t found anything but if he were to be impeached. It obviously wouldn’t be good, all the stuff with china wouldn’t work out you know because if the foriegn leaders see the trump is gonna be impeached there gonna pull out of the deals the economy will most likely crash. You know October is probably the most volatile month for their market, so no I don’t think he’ll be impeached.” -Nick Clervi, Sophomore

on possible impeachment of president

Olivia Peters October 4, 2019
RBHS students views on whether or not they believe and or want President Donald Trump to be impeached.
Photo from Envato Element

on the Notre Dame Cathedral fire

Will Napier April 26, 2019

April 15, 2019, the famed Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, France was reportedly burning. Finished in 1345, the Notre-Dame Cathedral is an icon in the city of Paris as well as the world. Renovations were...

telescope in the desert watching the Great Bear constellation and the milky way

Astronomy teacher reflects on black hole’s significance

Katie Whaley April 18, 2019
Beltz explains what the first image of a black hole reveals.
on North Korea sanctions

on North Korea sanctions

Amanda Kurukulasuriya March 26, 2019
In a tweet, President Donald Trump announced he would lift new sanctions aimed at North Korea, undermining the decision of his Treasury Department.
Graduates at university graduation  ceremony wearing mortarboard and gown

on the university bribing scandal involving high-profile stars

Saly Seye March 12, 2019

Over 40 people, including Shameless actor William H. Macy and Desperate Wives star Felicity Huffman, were implicated in an illegal college admissions scam this weekend. With some families paying totals...

Trump and Kim Jung Il is going to have massive impact on the media. Everyone is going to say this is bad or this is good. I personally think it’s good. Yes, [the meeting will push us closer to denuclearizing North Korea] but I think Russia will also have a big part saying if that’ll happen or not cause they’re the ones that are making a bigger deal about that. I’ve seen Russia with nore [nuclear weapons] than I have with North Korea lately. - Grant Crocket, senior

on Trump, Kim Jung Il summit

Multiple Authors February 26, 2019
Students voice their opinion on President Trump and Kim Jung Il's summit.
“I think the actual artistic value of the movie cannot be diminished by whatever the creators have done; however its place in like awards should maybe be shifted because the award isn’t just recognising the movie but it’s also recognising the people who created it, so if we give problematic people awards then we are recognising a problematic person for being good. I think that’s kind of sketchy, but of course I don’t know much of the controversies surrounding the movie so I don’t know if it applies to [Greenbook]. - James Glaser, junior

on the Oscars

Multiple Authors February 25, 2019

The Academy Awards held its 91st Oscars Sunday, Feb. 24. The show ran smoothly, even without a host, which the procession has had for the past 30 years. Moments after the show ended, however, a storm...

“I think Super Bowl commercials and now Broadway musicals apparently try to implement entertainment into their advertising. Most people enjoy skittles and associate a happy feeling with eating them, so trying to advertise with entertainment gives them that happy feeling that they would get also from the product. -Stephen Quakenbush, senior

on the Super Bowl Skittles commercial

Amanda Kurukulasuriya February 3, 2019
Students share their opinion on Skittles' Super Bowl advertising.
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