the oak leaf news Archives

Suspected gunman puts Santa Rosa High on Lockdown

May 31, 2019

Subscription wars: The battle for your wallet

May 14, 2019

You enter a binge-worthy new dimension between the darkness of your living room and the daylight of your daily commute, where you need to pay for only one streaming service and every great show is available to you: “Stranger ...

Fighting Words: Musicians respond to white nationalism in Trump’s America

Jesse Kapukui, Staff Writer

May 14, 2019

When Janelle Monae sings “Just love me baby, love me for who I am” in her song “Americans,” she’s not asking for the romantic love of any single partner. Instead, Monae is begging for the respect of her fellow man or, more specifically, white men who identify as white n...

Lessons I learned from my autistic brother

May 14, 2019

Online does not equal easy

Leslie M. Levy

May 14, 2019

The lure of online classes for students is the flexibility of completing their work “whenever.” This leads to laziness and even lamer excuses than teachers hear in person. (Your Google Drive crashed? Really?) Instructors...

Hospice Care: The last phase of life

May 14, 2019

My sophomore year of high school I took care of a 96-year-old woman named Clara. She was mobile and always found a reason to smile, despite all the pain and discomfort she was in. For more than three years I sat, comforted and sup...

Disneybland

Edgar Soria Garcia, Illustrations Editor

May 14, 2019

The most magical place on Earth? The Magic Kingdom? With all the hype surrounding Disneyland, I had to cough up the $104 to see what it’s all about. Characters and whimsical adventures awaited, but would I feel the magic? After I sat in traffic to get into the Magic K...