The student news site of Omaha North High Magnet School

The North Star

The student news site of Omaha North High Magnet School

The North Star

The student news site of Omaha North High Magnet School

The North Star

When will the #oscarsgotitright trend start?

Lillian Nero, Opinion Editor February 24, 2020

 According to NBC News, the 2019 Academy Awards were the “first to award more than one  black woman by the end of the night”. These three women are Regina King, Ruth E. Carter and Hannah Bleacher.   King...

Adult fundraising should be celebrated, not shamed

Virginia Holtzclaw, Features Writer February 20, 2020

Almost 15 million acres of land have been charred. Over 24 people have died. An estimated half a billion animals have perished, and the air quality in Sydney is over ten times the “hazardous” level...

LB206 provides much needed protections to student journalists

Dominick Bartels, News Writer February 20, 2020

The first amendment: 45 words, 5 freedoms. It was seen as so necessary and urgent by the Framers, that it is enshrined as the first amendment, not the second, tenth, or twenty second, but first. It clearly...

The MeToo couldn’t help all victims

John Dawes, Entertainment Writer December 3, 2019

It’s been roughly two years since the MeToo movement took the world by storm. The hashtag was used roughly 19 million according to Pew Research. The conversation about sexual misconduct is easier to...

Celebrities open up about mental illness, face backlash on social media

Denaya Lewis, Opinion Writer December 3, 2019

Summer Walker, a breakout rnb artist, known mostly for her single, girls need love, has been the subject of multiple media outlets for deviating from the norm of a musical artist. Most recently, she has...

The increase of phone addicts among Gen Z

Moolaw Soe, Features Writer December 3, 2019

Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and other social media apps are intricately designed apps to make people continuously scroll through the little wired box called a smartphone.   Throughout the...

Editorial: lack of post-secondary support leaves some without a future plan

Nathaniel Smith, Editor-in-Chief November 19, 2019

                With the cost of college doubling every nine years according to FinAid, seniors throughout the country are faced with the tough decision of shelling out tens of thousands...

No music for ICE

Denaya Lewis, Opinion Writer November 19, 2019

“Amazon, how long will you have blood on your hands? Cut ties with ICE!” hundreds of protestors shouted outside the annual Amazon web services summit on Thursday. Warehouse workers, Tech companies,...

Climate change is making us change

Megan Bechtolt, News Writer October 31, 2019

Climate change and global warming has affected every state in the Unites States. There are more people talking about it how big of a problem this is. Climate change has affected the way we live and act....

MLB baseballs are more juiced than Barry Bonds

Kaden Hughes, Magazine and Backpage Editor October 31, 2019

This year, Major League Baseball players and teams broke multiple records this season, almost all of these records pertained to homeruns. People see this in 2 different ways, the result of more players...

What Phone Companies Commonly Lie About

Hailey Gillespie, In-depth Writer October 31, 2019

To put it short, everything you care about.  To clarify, I’ve personally owned both iOS and Android devices for multiple years. I prefer an Android for my current needs, but don’t think poorly...

Change led by students

Moolaw Soe, Features Writer October 31, 2019

On September 20th, 2019, a group of North’s students drove downtown to City Hall to join the Climate change protest. The group of students, Dominick Bartels, Hannah Miller, Nathaniel Smith, Caroline...

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