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A worthwhile New Year’s resolution: Let go of guilt and shame

Vanessa Dueck - 2
  There’s a pair of best friends that can always be found together. They go by the names of Guilt and Shame. Some of their...
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The Milpitas Beat launches 21st Century American Writing Contest

Eric Shapiro - 1
As The Milpitas Beat has grown in recent years, we’ve become increasingly motivated to support and amplify the arts, and one of our first...
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We will get through these lonely days

Vanessa Dueck - 2
Have you ever eaten a tiny piece of raw chicken just to see if your body could take it? Driven with your eyes closed...
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The eternal importance of speaking truth to power

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It was in 1969 or 1970. I was in Junior College. I was a volunteer in The College Readiness program, an on-campus effort to...
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Are the holidays making you want to reach for a drink?

Vanessa Dueck - 0
“I don’t know if there’ll be snow, so have a cup of cheer.”  Ah, yes. The “cup of cheer.” If you’re like many Americans, you’ve...
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A heart of Thanksgiving

Vanessa Dueck - 0
It was during the third trimester of my second and most challenging pregnancy when the “gratitude journal” craze started to spread online. Back then I...
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America! We forgot to complain about Daylight Savings!

Vanessa Dueck - 3
Every year around this time I look forward to the passionate complaining of friends and family about the unnecessariness of California’s participation in daylight...
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Proposed VTA cuts will harm essential workers, students, and seniors

Rachel Wu - 2
As a high school student who hasn’t experienced being packed like a sardine with other children on the bus to school for over half...
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How COVID-19 has shaped our Milpitas city experiences

Rachel Wu - 0
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about many changes, but one that doesn’t usually come to mind is the shift in the way we interact...
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Staying inspired in pandemic times

Vanessa Dueck - 0
We all know the old saying “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” But, what...
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The importance of voting as a Muslim woman

Ayilah Chaudhary - 0
Women’s suffrage has come a long way, but it’s still shocking to accept the fact that women could not vote in every country that...
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Stand by your man: a suggestion for America

Vanessa Dueck - 0
Ah, the long-term romantic relationship – I’m not talking about seeing a guy or girl from Tinder three times in a row…I’m talking one...
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Making Public Comment useful for Milpitas City Council

Rob Jung - 0
COVID-19 has certainly turned things upside down for everyone. It has even affected city council meetings in ways that no one expected. But, Milpitians,...
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Spotify should let Joe Rogan speak

Eric Shapiro - 0
I love watching people try to cancel Joe Rogan. To my memory, in the past year, they tried to get him for voicing a...
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Blue skies & cool breezes: the Bay Area can breathe

Eric Shapiro - 1
At press time, Milpitas air quality is reading in the Green. Translation: “good.” Translation: no smoke. Translation: hallelujah! Have you watched the air maps over...
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Perseverance

Vanessa Dueck - 0
Is it just me, or are the shorter days feeling a little…long these days? As the smoky curtain of powerlessness hangs heavy over all...
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Personal maintenance in the age of COVID-19

Vanessa Dueck - 1
I am training to hit the Olympic standard in the marathon, not for 2021 (if the 2021 Olympics is not just another far off...
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A letter to my sons: How America got into this COVID-19 mess

Eric Shapiro - 0
Dear Benny & Henry— I write to you in the midst of what is shaping up to be one of the most staggering crises in...
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Open letter to California State Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez: Repeal AB5 right this second

Eric Shapiro - 0
Dear Ms. Gonzalez— This is insane. Your law AB5, also known for some reason as “the gig economy law” despite its total miscomprehension of what the...
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Black Lives Matter

If all lives really do matter, then why aren’t we acting like It?

Lloyd Alaban - 2
I was first introduced to the Black Lives Matter movement six years ago, in the wake of the death of Michael Brown, an unarmed...
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The road to peace is paved with justice

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As the US is gripped with days of unrest and protest, one has to finally come to terms with the fact that this happens...
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Solving racism at home

Rob Jung - 1
I don’t normally write about this topic. Not my forte. But the pictures and videos in the George Floyd case have demanded my voice...
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