Talon Articles

Greetings from Urinetown

The Minnehaha Players' second production of the year gives the audience satire about government, corporations and people's want for excess A group of battered citizens huddle at the entrance to a filthy urinal, labeled Public Amenity #9. Hands grip clusters of coins,...

Minnehaha’s election results..and the senior class impact

Today marks not only the country's 2016 election, but also the results of Minnehaha's own school wide election. As seen in the chart below, democratic candidate Hillary Clinton won with a landslide, with 168 votes out of 326. Republican candidate Donald Trump received...

Contrasting Column: The principled vote

Don't vote for the 'lesser evil' "The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension...is itself a frightful despotism." George Washington warned the country in his farewell address that falling into a...

Contrasting column: your vote matters

Your vote changes history, don't waste your vote The 2016 presidential race will go down in history, with all of its countless memes and fact checking. Amid the shocking twists and turns of the campaign, voters must remember that one of the candidates will ultimately...