ELLA BRIGHTSTAFF WRITER On Friday, Sept. 18, President Trump announced the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) would be sending almost $13 billion, including $11.6 billion in federal funding, in aid to Puerto Rico to help rebuild. This announcement came almost exactly three years after Hurricane Maria caused devastating damage in Sept. 2017. Congress had approved... Continue Reading →
ALIVIA GILESSTAFF WRITER With the semester under way, many clubs and organizations have started holding meetings and events. Recently, Alma College welcomed a new organization. The PAGE (which stands for Pop Culture, Anime, Gaming, and Entertainment) Club has begun hosting various campus events. The PAGE club was founded at the end of last year. The... Continue Reading →
EMILY HENDERSONSTAFF WRITER Photo by Lizzy Dermody Voting season is now upon us. This presidential election is said to be one for the books as Donald Trump and Joe Biden take the stage to discuss their policies and ideals. Politics is often seen as stressful and burdensome, and young voters are the least likely to... Continue Reading →
CHELSEA FABERSTAFF WRITER Chaotic times have flooded Washington D.C. days before the election. A string of damaging news broke leading up to the President’s COVID-19 diagnosis. On Sunday Sept. 27, The New York Times announced they had received decades of Donald Trump’s tax returns and published shocking takeaways. It was revealed that the president had... Continue Reading →
Week one of The Almanian Podcast starring co hosts Chlesea Faber and Jacob Smith
TAYLOR PEPITONESTAFF WRITER As students get into the routine of classes and their new environment, the time continues to tick closer to Election Day. More updates come daily on who is doing well, who is not, what is being said and what is being done. CNN recently posted an update on the polls and it... Continue Reading →
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JORDYN BRADLEYSPORTS EDITOR If you’re an Alma student with a Twitter account, you’ve probably seen tweets shared by Alma Confessions (@scotscandals), an anonymously-run confessions page. Since its debut in January of this year, the page has been the talk of campus for multiple different “scandalous” Twitter threads that have come out of it. “It was... Continue Reading →
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