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The Wrangler

The #1 student news site of Yorba Linda High School

The Wrangler

Coachella is an extremely popular music festival and people from all around travel to Indio, California just to attend it.

Coachella Has Its Own Problems

Alyssa Pepito, Photojournalist April 19, 2018

The most well-known music festival, Coachella, holds problems for multiple reasons. Recently, they have been sued by Portland Music Festival, Soul’d Out, over a clause which gives Coachella a seasonal...

The watchful eye of surveillance capitalism.

Hiding in Plain Sight

Janet Han, Photojournalist April 16, 2018

The likelihood of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Gmail, or similar applications being installed on nearly every cell phone user’s phone is a near given. In fact, it is far stranger not to have...

A little girl is seen refilling jugs of water for not only her but for her whole family as well.

Cape Town Water Crisis

Brandon Russell, Editor April 16, 2018

“Day zero” is what us Americans and many of South Africans call the day in which the taps run dry throughout the land of Cape Town, South Africa. With given just three months until the entire cities...

A young girl recovering from polio and standing with crutches.

A Possible Polio Outbreak in the 21st Century?

Stephen Serrano, Section Editor April 16, 2018

In the 1940s and 1950s, “polio was one of the most diseases in industrialized countries, paralyzing hundreds of thousands of children every year” (polioeradication.org). Especially in the US alone,...

Downtown Disney entrance prior to shut down.

More Businesses Removed from DownTown Disney

Kathleen Toblesky, Photojournalist April 13, 2018

Several businesses located in Anaheim’s Downtown Disney will be demolished this summer on June 30 and be replaced with a 700-room hotel that will expand lodging at the Disneyland Resort. The businesses...

The school district in Denver, Colorado, called District 27J, plans to switch to a 4-day school week.

No More Five-Day School Weeks?

Alyssa Pepito, Photojournalist April 12, 2018

Going to school for four days and having a three-day weekend sounds nice, doesn’t it? One school district in Denver, Colorado plans to change their five-day weeks into four-day weeks for the schools...

Emma Gonzalez speaks at the March for Our Lives movement, cementing her place in history as one of the most influential student activists.

Emma Gonzalez, Activist Warrior

Caitlyn Truong, Photojournalist April 11, 2018

Although the Second Amendment has always been a popular debate, recent events have pushed for gun control laws more than ever before. Political events occur daily, whether they be in the form of protests,...

Sudan, the world’s last male white northern rhino, has passed away.

The Demise of the White Northern Rhinos

Mabel Ra, Editor April 10, 2018

The last male rhino has officially died, leaving only two female rhinos as the only living record left of the White Northern Rhino species. Sudan, the world’s last male white northern rhino, was 45 years...

Winnie Mandela Passes Away at Age 81

Nikita Kheni, Editor-in-Chief April 3, 2018

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, “mother” of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist, and politician passed away on April 2 at the age of 81.   Growing up, she saw how differently she was treated...

People gather to mourn the loss of Stephon Clark at his funeral.

Killed in His Own Backyard

Amanda Chung, Photojournalist April 1, 2018

Stephon Clark, a 22-year-old black man and a father of two, fell victim to yet another police shooting on Sunday, March 18. Not long after 9:00 p.m., the Sacramento Police Department received a call...

Outdoor Urban Light display.

YLHS Field Trip to the LACMA

Kathleen Toblesky, Photojournalist March 30, 2018

  The LA County Museum of Art, or the LACMA for short, was visited on Tuesday, March 20 by students of YL. The field trip attendees were comprised of the three French periods (year one, year two...

Danny Vasquez is under public scrutiny after video of him beating his ex-girlfriend surfaced.

Footage of Baseball Player Beating Ex-Girlfriend Released

Amanda Chung, Photojournalist March 30, 2018

In 2016, Danny Vasquez assaulted his then-girlfriend in a stairwell. Recently, video evidence of Danny Vasquez’s assault was released by the Texas Police Department. The video showed Danny Vasquez...

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