#Emma Pearson Archives - The Tam News

Bolinas Under Siege: Another Chapter in Marin’s Housing Crisis

By Caden Bernstein-Lawler, Nathan Robinson, and Emma Pearson ♦ May 30, 2023

It would be an understatement to label the unincorporated Marin Country community of Bolinas, Calif., a “reclusive environment.” With a population of a little under 1,500 residents, per the 2020...

Tam students participate in nationwide student protests following Nashville school shooting

By Emma Pearson, Lifestyles/Sports Editor ♦ May 9, 2023

Tamalpais High School students left their sixth period classes to engage in a nationwide walkout protesting gun violence at approximately 11:30 a.m. on April 5.

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Call Ski Week whatever you want.

By Emma Pearson, Lifestyles/Sports Editor ♦ Apr 3, 2023

I couldn't care less what Ski Week is called. Its existence is elitist, changing the name doesn’t erase that.

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Tam nutrition services reinstates “ala carte menu”

By Emma Pearson, Lifestyles/Sports Editor ♦ Mar 23, 2023

The $1 chocolate chip cookie, in particular, is remembered fondly by Tam seniors from their freshman year experience.

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Dianne Feinstein is the last thing you should be worried about in congress right now – Here’s why

By Emma Pearson, Lifestyles/Sports Editor ♦ Mar 6, 2023

I read an article today in my American Government class about California Senator Dianne Feinsten. The class is a state-required course in which we are supposed to learn and understand the systems and inner-workings of the American government system so that we may navigate citizenship.

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What happens when the drought ends?

By Emma Pearson, Lifestyles/Sports Editor ♦ Feb 3, 2023

Recent extreme weather has exposed structural weaknesses that must be addressed with the uprise of climate change.

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Profile: Eleanor Octavio

By Emma Pearson, Lifestyles/Sports Editor ♦ Feb 1, 2023

There’s more than a little extra community at the Mill Valley Community Center on days in which Tamalpais High School senior Eleanor Octavio leads Southern Marin Aquatics (SOMA)’s lessons.

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Seasons in California

By Emma Pearson, Lifestyles/Sports Editor ♦ Nov 25, 2022

It’s fall in northern California! There is a brisk chill hanging in the air (as long as you are within 100 yards of a coastline), the dark embrace of fog in the first and last four hours of the day, and brown and orange leaves leisurely falling from tree branches (the 10% of them that aren’t evergreen).

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Yerba Mate: Tam’s Drink

By Emma Pearson, Lifestyles/Sports Editor ♦ Sep 29, 2022

For some it’s a hot latte, for others it's a cool glass of lemonade, but there is only one drink that is enough of a delicacy to satisfy the refined palettes of Tamalpais High School students: the Yerba Mate.

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Tam Students protest against climate change and for abortion rights

By Emma Pearson, Lifestyles/Sports Editor ♦ Jun 7, 2022

Multiple Tam students attended two separate protests in Marin, using their voices and presence to advocate for what they believe in.

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