Year: 2012

President Obama’s win on Tuesday is a historic, left-handed compliment to the 43rd president. He’s the first incumbent to be re-elected with such high unemployment averages and low approval ratings since FDR. Despite the best efforts of Gov. Romney, Rep. Paul Ryan, and millions of supporters, Obama has become the third consecutive president to win...

Throughout the campaign, we heard continuously that the race was about the economy.  But if that were true, why did America re-elect a president with unemployment at 8 percent and the national debt over $16 trillion? My suspicion: this race was not about the economy. The results hinged instead on capturing the votes of special...

We may break out the Dom Perignon soon, because as Napoleon said once, “In victory, you deserve champagne, in defeat, you need it.” Tuesday’s presidential election stung. The Collegian editorial board disagrees on politics (mostly thanks to our hipster contingent), but not a single one of us wanted to see President Barack Obama win re-election....

The city income tax proposal didn’t pass. In fact, it got beat bad—712 votes for and 1,720 against. Unfortunately, the city still needs $39 million it doesn’t have to repair its roads. The city income tax would have established a mechanism through which the city could stockpile a road rebuilding fund. But with the proposal’s...

L uke, George is no longer your father. Last Tuesday, George Lucas announced his retirement, and the sale of Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion to the Walt Disney Company. The corporate giant now controls LucasArts, Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), Skywalker Sound, most of “Indiana Jones”… and all of “Star Wars.” The controversy among the fans...