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Lake Braddock's Independent Student Newspaper

The Bear Facts

Lake Braddock's Independent Student Newspaper

The Bear Facts

Lake Braddock's Independent Student Newspaper

The Bear Facts

Pop culture vs progress

Pop culture vs progress

Ayman Farid, Staff Writer April 14, 2015

Out of 2.2 billion children worldwide, 1 billion live in poverty. There are 640 million children worldwide without adequate shelter and 400 million with no access to safe water. The richest 60 percent...

Constant campaigning

Alex Nesterovich, Staff Writer March 9, 2015

American politics carries an interesting peculiarity regarding campaigns, one that exists nowhere else in the democratic world. Well over a year away from the upcoming election, we constantly hear about...

GOP legslation will stab EPA in the back

Alex Nesterovich, Staff Writer December 18, 2014

The Keystone XL pipeline debate dominated environmental conversation in November. In the end, the initiative for the construction of an oil pipeline going from Alberta, Canada to Port Arthur, Texas failed...

Massive Online Open Courses are becoming a popular way to obtain education for free.

MOOCs: A growing alternative education

Paul Barnhill, Comment Editor November 25, 2014

In the age of sky-high college tuition rates, needing a college degree to get far in a career seems to ring true more than ever. Virginia in-state tuition is around $25,000 a year with room and board for...

Phone encryption by default: The new norm

Paul Barnhill, Comment Editor November 7, 2014

Since revelations about broad government surveillance programs were released in June of last year by Edward Snowden, privacy has become a huge issue in the technology world. Up until the Supreme Court...

Net neutrality: The foundation of modern liberty

Zelgai Saleh, Staff Writer October 7, 2014

Losing the battle for net neutrality, free and open data access, could very well mean the end of the internet as we know it. In the next couple of months, easy access to information and entertainment for...

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