Bearing News

Students participate in GAM field trip to Missouri capital Feb. 26

Multiple Authors • February 28, 2019

Wednesday, Feb. 26 RBHS students took a trip to Jefferson City, MO, to tour the state Capitol.

on the Greitens report

Will Cover • May 4, 2018

A report from the Missouri State House details how Eric Greitens not only misused a donor list from his charity, The Mission Continues, but started an off the book campaign to avoid forming an official...

on the government shutdown

Multiple Authors • January 22, 2018

Yesterday, Jan. 21, the government officially shut down five years after the last shutdown that lasted 16 days in Oct. 2013. Students at RBHS give their opinions on the matter.

FCC to vote on net neutrality

Elad Gov-Ari • December 15, 2017

The Federal Communications Committee will vote on whether to keep net neutrality. Update: The FCC voted 3:2 in favor of ending net neutrality.

New Voices aims to protect high school journalism students across the country

Multiple Authors • November 17, 2017

New Voices is a movement powered by students to give journalist the right to gather information and share issues of public concern. In Missouri, besides the first amendment there are no protections for journalism students, which enables administrators to censor the content.

New bill to come, Missouri pushes to raise juvenile age

Peyton Moore • May 11, 2017

The state of Missouri is one of the seven in the United States that tries 17 year olds as adults when they commit a crime. Although this law applies to Missouri, border states, such as Iowa and Kansas,...

New bill to improve racial bias in police force

Skyler Froese • January 28, 2016

Missouri State Senator Jamilah Nasheed (city of St. Louis) co-sponsored the bill to improve Columbia police officer training. The state of Missouri has recently experienced bountiful controversy surrounding...