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Los estadounidenses tienen fama de sentirse el centro de la tierra, algo que es evidente en ciertos términos populares. Usamos los idiomas para expresarnos, comunicarnos…

Walking through downtown Portland, you might stumble upon a blue mural depicting the face of a dreaming woman and an excerpt of the Langston Hughes poem “Dream” written in cursive. The mural exists…

Since the beginning of 2021 alone, numerous current events, political discourses, and controversial ideologies have come to the forefront of the American public’s discussions. As a result of such a culture,…

Content warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of violence and hate crimes against the Asian-American community.

On Mar. 1, 2020, an Asian man in New York City gets water thrown at him…

In early February, a “safe park “program was proposed by City Commissioner Dan Ryan who oversees Portland’s Housing Bureau, the Joint Office of Homeless Services and the Bureau of Development Services. 
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Emphasizing the voices of Indigenous peoples and teaching about their histories and culture in schools is what the new Tribal History curriculum aims to do.    

Senate Bill 13 (SB13) was passed…

My journey
My name is Joel Reyes and I am from Honduras. I will tell you about my journey emigrating from my country to the United States.

There are times when one desires to accomplish every one of…

The city of Portland entered 2021 with fresh vandalism from destructive protesters, causing Mayor Ted Wheeler and Multnomah District Attorney Mike Schmidt to evaluate the future of demonstrations in the…

As a result of COVID-19 and the houseless state of emergency Portland, the procedure that Portland follows when removing houseless camps has changed to account for the spread of the disease, as well as…

According to the Oregon Department of Education, white teachers made up 84% of the teaching population at Lincoln during the 2019-2020 school year.

Math teacher Ricardo Alonso, who identifies as Afro-Cuban,…

This year, PPS has started to take part in a project they are calling, “Renaming and Redefining PPS Spaces: Centering the Experience of Black, Native, and Students of Color Through A Racial Equity Design…

While online school may not provide the perks of socialization, it does have one benefit: cat cameos. 

Since online learning restarted in September, many students have noticed an influx of appearances…

With only six days until the presidential election, independent groups are encouraging people to vote in what many argue is the most critical election of our lifetime.
Across the state, students have…

When Lincoln students were in the building, Nutrition Services Lead Trinity Dutton worked by herself in the kitchen. She was in charge of prepping for breakfast, cooking entrees for lunch and doing the…

Many students throughout the city have been attending Black Lives Matter demonstrations, having conversations with family members, and donating to groups working towards racial justice. Two Lincoln students…

Before the NFL Kickoff on Sept. 10, the Kansas City Chiefs and Houston Texans linked arms and stood together in silence in a “moment of unity,” announced inside Arrowhead Stadium as being “dedicated…

COVID-19 has created a challenging situation for current high school seniors: go to college in the fall or skip it?

According to a national survey of 487 rising college freshmen conducted by the Art…

The Special Education (SpED) program at Lincoln is already at a disadvantage with a smaller teaching staff compared to other PPS schools. Now, during the quarantine, students may be falling even further…

The Cardinal Times interviewed students around the country about their experiences during the Coronavirus pandemic. Across the country, students are moving to online learning and a new way of life. Read…

The 2020 spring sports season will forever be remembered as the one that could have been.

For senior Ethan Harper, a canceled spring sports season means a lost opportunity for a state title. Harper…

When you walk into two of the Jacksons Food Stores in Portland, your face is being recorded and captured by multiple cameras, and then sent to be stored on a database. 

The stores say they are using…

“Cancel culture.”

When Googling the term, over two billion results come up. This is understandable considering the essence of this term is rooted in social media and the internet. We see it happen…

Students globally are being affected by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in a variety of ways. Oregon schools will be out until at least Apr. 30, Japan has planned for a five-week closure and Italy has placed…

For the first time, Native history is mandated to be taught along with Oregon history.

Senate Bill 13 (SB13), known as Tribal History or Shared History, was set to be implemented in January of this…

“Two unrelated deaths at Mount Hood on the same weekend are a rarity in mountain’s history,” opens an article in The Oregonian describing two unrelated snowboarding deaths on Feb. 16 and 17 in the…

The Lincoln administration hosted a listening session where leadership students could join and ask any questions they had about the recent school closures. Questions about IB testing, future grades and…

Editor’s note
In this article, The Cardinal Times is citing several anonymous sources and not naming three students both out of personal safety concerns stemming from the online harassment that Beyond…

Roger Hastings and Carl Miller. While most of you probably haven’t heard these names, they’ve heard yours. These are two of the 12 custodians currently cleaning up after you at Lincoln High School….

In 1995, when Lincoln alumnus Sara Boone began her training with the Portland Fire Service, she was the first woman of color to join the force. Today, 25 years later, she remains the sole woman of…

Camps belonging to houseless people border the sidewalks of NW Salmon Street and can’t be missed by students dropped off for school or walking to Westside during break. Some have been relocated or removed…

For many students, next Saturday, Jan. 25, Lincoln’s Winter Formal dance could mean the choice between dancing with friends and celebrating with family, due to a peculiar scheduling change.

Lincoln’s…

When describing Lincoln, both attendees and outsiders refer to a common stereotype: white. After looking at enrollment from the past decade, this stereotype has proven true. 

At Lincoln, enrollment…

If you asked head coach Eric Dettman in the summer of 2018 if he thought the Lincoln girls’ cross country team would make it to the national championship meet, there might have been a sliver of doubt…

A new district-wide search and seizure policy may drastically expand the ways in which students can be legally searched, allowing administrative oversight on students’ technology and events outside of…

The civil rights movement of the 1960s bred street marches. The antiwar protests of the early 2000s bred targeted grassroots organization. Now, many activists respond to important global issues like climate…

This is the first episode of Just Give Me Ten Minutes, a ten-minute or less podcast about laws affecting students, created and written by Cole Pressler.

Below the podcast is the transcript of the conversation…

In Oregon, one in four 11th graders have reported vaping a nicotine product. Youth vaping of marijuana has increased by 295 percent over the last three years, according to the Oregon Health Authority (OHA).

This…

The “rugby” tab on the Lincoln Athletics page leads to “Error 404: Information Not Found.” Multiple editions of the Lincoln High School Yearbook do not even mention the team’s existence.

Traditionally,…

Most of the time if a student pulls out their phone in class, the teacher will quickly tell them to put it away. Now, they don’t have to.

A new app called ‘Present Education’ is working to combat…

Three and a half years, seven varsity letters- and counting.

Senior Charlotte Anderson has been part of both the varsity track and field team as well as the varsity basketball team since freshman year….

While many students dream of becoming successful authors, few have managed to do something as arduous as write a book, much less get themselves published. But for sophomore Zadie Schaffer, that dream has…

Every morning students pile out of the Max at the King’s Hill stop and walk to school. In the afternoon, they board again to head home. The ease of this commute is in jeopardy.

In June, Portland’s…

Why haven’t Lincoln’s restrooms been fixed yet?

Make no mistake: criticism of these worn-down washrooms is nothing new. One of the most common complaints about Lincoln’s fractured, crumbling…

January 2016: the rowdy Lincoln crowd overflows the gymnasium. The bleachers are packed from shoulder to shoulder as friends and family cheer on the men’s varsity basketball team in a battle against…

A routine tackle. A soccer ball to the head. A slip on the field – all causes of concussions for high school athletes.

Studies in recent years have put pressure on high school sports to be held accountable…