government regulation

Student Thoughts: Some common cents, the penny needs to go

The means for a more efficient monetary system are already developed. The government is wasting millions annually to support a system that cannot be sustained.

Dueling Column: The Second Amendment needs amending

"If I had my way, the solution to gun rights would be in your wallet. I don’t believe anyone needs to own a gun."

Standardized testing is not helping American students

We cannot accept that our K-12 students are receiving an average education by international standards and a below average education by nation standards.

Letter to the Editor: The problem in Waco, Texas

Andrew Dias | Senior – Communication Arts | adias003@fiu.edu     Let’s consider two instances: In Country A, there is an official government that outlaws a specific drug because it is a threat to public health. A percentage of that country’s population makes a living by producing and exporting the drug. The country is very poor, so […]

Eco-Friendly: Amendment “Won”

Republican Senator Alan Hays is one of the people deciding how the money from Amendment 1 is spent. And one of the major jobs of the bill is to buy more land that is essential in the natural process of the water flow in Florida.

Youth unemployment rate barely budges in recent job reports

Generation Opportunity recently released its Millennial Jobs Report for December 2013 which pointed to an effective 15.9 percent non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for 18 to 29 year olds, only a slight drop from June 2013’s 16.1 percent rate.

New state university drains funds from Florida schools

By: Philippe Buteau/Staff Writer Sometimes I worry people in charge don’t know what they are doing. The state legislature is currently in the working stages of making the University of South Florida’s Polytechnic campus its own University. This would make USF Polytechnic the 12th state university in the State University System, which is managed by […]

Occupy FIU: reevaluate message, strategy

By: Philippe Buteau / Staff Writer The FIU offshoot of the Occupy movement needs to chill and fall back for a bit. By that I mean the group’s members need to be very careful with what their overall message is, including what they say to the media, and it needs to stop with the rallies, teach-ins and anything else they plan on doing on campus until they get a more realistic set of grievances for occupying. The Jan. 12 arrest of seven Occupy FIU members did more to delegitimize the group than legitimize them. On that day, FIU Police officers arrested members of the group for unlawful assembly. The members said what they were doing was not a protest but
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