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What is Breast Cancer? With October being breast cancer awareness month, people are discussing how the disease affects millions around the world. However, for many, the actual meaning of breast cancer remains unclear. Dr. Lynn Jeffers, medical director of the Integrated Breast Center at St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Oxnard, defines cancer as…
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Here is how a nonprofit works: the public can donate to the organization, which in turn, works toward achieving a certain transparent goal or promoting a certain transparent cause. Here is what is unethical: the public donating to an organization which abuses their power to influence political views. And here is what is illegal:…
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Several areas in the city of Thousand Oaks were temporarily without power during the late hours of Sunday night, on Oct. 9 which left many residents searching for spare candles to illuminate their homes while waiting for their power to return. The area affected included Lynn Road to Hillcrest Drive. Additionally, many moviegoers were…
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Students of Sequoia Middle School gathered around, eager to listen to their monthly podcast. Karla Stevenson, teacher at Sequoia Middle School, hosted a podcast for her class on Oct. 9. Members of The Arrow, The Lancer and The Prowler, three high school newspapers in the Conejo Valley Unified School District, were interviewed. The three…
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Amid controversy and extreme partisanship Justice Brett Kavanaugh was appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) in a 50-48 senate vote. President Trump nominated Judge Kavanaugh last July to replace moderate conservative Justice Anthony Kennedy who retired over the summer. However, his nomination was held in abeyance over multiple allegations of…
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Californians looked up at the sky as a luminous cloud lit up the night sky on Oct. 10 around 7:20 p.m. SpaceX, a private aerospace engineering company, successfully launched and landed a Falcon 9 rocket at the Vandenberg Air Force Base about 158 miles north of Los Angeles. The company was founded in 2002…
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Angie Simpson What experience do you think has prepared you to be on the school board? I was a teacher here in the Conejo Valley Unified School District, I taught English, Dance, coached Volleyball, I was onsight counsel, so as a grassroots candidate, I understand the real day-to-day of what’s happening in the classroom…
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We are the ones most impacted by school board decisions, and we are the ones with the responsibility of electing officials who will not only hear our suggestions but also listen and implement them. We are tasked with selecting trustees that are deserving of our trust to fulfill our needs with moral integrity. Students,…
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A political agenda, as defined by “The Practice of American Public Policymaking,” is a list of subjects or problems to which government officials as well as individuals outside the government are paying serious attention at any given time. Considering the modern connotation of the phrase, you might be surprised that there is no mention…
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In preparation for the upcoming CVUSD school board elections, several local groups have held candidate forums. Controversy arose at the first forum, hosted by the Conejo Council Parent Teacher Association, when sitting board member and candidate Mike Dunn delivered his opening statement and then refused to participate in the rest of the forum. Dunn…