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Friday, October 9, 2026
PathWater is a company that sells sustainable aluminum water bottles with the purpose to shift from single-use plastics to reusable materials. The company has a three-step plan that doubles as their company mission, which helps shift communities to a reuse culture, a culture more aware of environmentally-friendly steps to take […]
Sometimes the death of an artist can enhance our understanding of their work. Take David Bowie’s critically acclaimed “Blackstar” a harrowing journey through the mind of a man coming to the end of his life and exploring the finality of death with the poignancy and skill that only Bowie, facing […]
SMHS held its 3rd Spirit Rally of the year on January 24th, 2020. San Mateo Journalists edited it down into a video recap.
In 1968, the New England Journal of Medicine published a letter from a supposed Chinese physician named Kwok who described a series of reactions he experienced after eating Chinese food. “Dr. Kwok” (who is believed to have been a white, American scientist lying about his identity in order to sound […]
FreetheFlow, a teen-led organization founded by Emily Chinn, a junior at San Mateo High, focuses on contributing to the end of period poverty, the inability to afford feminine hygiene products. The company’s goal is to gather those products and create donation packets to give to local women’s shelters, such as […]
June 3rd: San Mateo’s Coalition Z Chapter, a youth-led organization, holds a peaceful protest outside San Mateo City Hall. May 31st: San Francisco issues a curfew from 8 PM to 5 AM to stop the protests. May 28th: The 2019-2020 School Year officially ends. May 28th: Riots and Protests break […]
Presidential candidate Andrew Yang launched his candidacy in November of 2017, nearly two years before the rest of the candidates in the overflowing Democratic field. Running on the core idea of a Universal Basic Income, or what he coined the “Freedom Dividend,” which would give $1,000 to nearly every adult […]
As the boy’s basketball team marches on from the preseason into the regular season, it becomes increasingly clear that this year’s team is different from last year’s squad. This year, the Bearcats’ boys varsity team has a new coach taking the reins, Josh Gould, who formerly was an assistant coach […]
Two years ago, China practically stopped accepting the world’s recyclable materials, forcing other countries, including America, to scramble in search of other ways to dispose of those recyclable products. In 2016, China imported about two-thirds of the world’s plastic waste-seven million tons a year; America exported 700,000 of that 7 […]
This past June, fans of “The Office” were shocked to learn that the massively popular sitcom would be leaving Netflix. NBCUniversal, the company that owns the rights to the show, released a statement informing fans that the sitcom would be leaving Netflix and be exclusively feature on NBC’s own standalone […]