As a senior in high school, you’re supposed to have your life figured out. You’re supposed to know where you stand in your social life or what your career is going to look like. Yet some of us still don’t.   During my freshman year, I...

Goodbyes are never easy, I know…stating the obvious. I only wrote for The Wire for 2 years, but that doesn’t make it any easier. Nevertheless, they’re necessary, so I’m going to give this my best shot.   I was never going to join The...

February 14th is normally a day for cheesy cards, candy, and flowers. On February 14th, 2018, all of that changed. 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz pulled the fire alarm at his old high school and as students and teachers left the building, he opened fire with...

After four years, all of them on staff of The Wire, I am nearing graduation just like all of my fellow seniors. This is an event often referred to as “Commencement.”  Commencement means beginning which is a bit odd because it happens at the end of...

Like most Americans during the 4 day election standstill from Nov 3 to Nov 7, my eyes were glued to the television screen, following a man tapping a screen faster than I can type on my laptop with rapt attention. As election results rushed in, the once...

Late at night on September 18, the US lost a titan.  Ruth Bader Ginsburg died following complications with metastatic pancreatic cancer at the age of 87. Throughout the course of her life, few people have done more for the rights of women than Justice...

Last year in English, my teacher assigned a project where we had to research something that we deemed a problem in the world, then represent it in creative way and teach it to the class. Someone presented about inflation in Venezuela, another about bees...

We are The West Potomac Wire. We write about things like bake sales and club fairs and soccer games. We should not have to cover a shooting in our own school in the same pages.   This is the reality of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School....

Parkland. Sandy Hook. Virginia Tech. Columbine. These are the names of some of the deadliest mass school shootings in history. It hasn’t even been 18 years yet since Columbine, but I know that I still know their names, as do most of you… even though...

Are you unable to find an open tread mill at the gym? Is that healthy organic fruit juice that you’ve been getting from Whole Foods sold out at your local grocer? It must be that dreaded time when the masses are obsessed with the idea that a new year...

Dear Wire Readers, We appreciate the intensity of response from our readers following the release of our Jan/Feb 2015 issue of our newsmagazine. Our publication has been undergoing a massive transformation over the past several months as we move towards...