Daniel Gonzalez

The Presidential Election. An anxiety inducing idea that has plagued the minds of Americans for nearly the entirety of the year. However, by November,...

For the past couple of weeks, the Ukiah High volleyball team has been practicing outdoors to prepare for their upcoming fall season. During these...

Loaded is a small gold nugget in a vast river of dirt, the perfect rock n roll album without any filler. The album feels like a greatest hit collection, with each track mastering a style of the genre.

Though these issues of anarchy in the USA seem far away from sweet, ol’ Ukiah, remember that our home is not a vacuum, and what occurs on a national stage could always affect our own backyards.

You turn on the radio on a summer’s afternoon of 2001. Expecting another nu-metal blunder, an aging boyband still lingering on from the 90s, or a tired old R&B beat that has been beaten to death. But you hear something different, something you haven’t heard before since records in the ’60s. You hear the blaring riff of an Epiphone Riviera with more instruments slowly leading in, and then you listened to a growling voice yell out to you. You hear “Last Nite,” the lead single for New York City’s hottest new band, The Strokes.

Although assigning the reason of death is not straightforward due to the complexity of the coronavirus itself, it was not long until disease experts and scientists took to social media to point out the 6 percent infographic figure that had become widely misinterpreted. In addition to their efforts of refuting claims to downplay the death numbers, public health experts have consistently noted that numbers are likely undercounts to the true toll of the virus.