Owen Hoffner Articles

Short Takes: Trump Mar-a-Lago Investigation

by Owen Hoffner | October 14, 2022 | Opinions, Talon | 0 Comments

FBI begins investigation of Trump's Florida estate Earlier this fall, the FBI began an extensive investigation of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. The search was conducted with the intention of finding classified documents regarding...

Staff Editorial: Phone and Schedule Changes

by Owen Hoffner | October 14, 2022 | Opinions, Talon | 0 Comments

Is a seven-period, no-phone Minnehaha working? Things have looked different this school year. No more craned heads in the campus room. No more silent lunches. No more awkward glances at the floor in the middle of class. There's one major reason for this apparent...

The wild world of Wordle

by Owen Hoffner | May 24, 2022 | Features, Multimedia, Talon | 0 Comments

Why has Wordle, a five-letter word guessing game, taken the internet by storm? Play the Talon Staff's Minnehaha-themed Wordles below: Wordle 1 Wordle 2 Wordle 3 Wordle 4 Beep, beep, beep! Your pleasant dream is shattered by your pesky alarm clock alerting you that...

What is an NFT?

by Owen Hoffner | April 20, 2022 | Arts, Talon | 0 Comments

The strange world of NFTs Bored Apes? CryptoPunks? Randomly generated doodles of cats selling for $20,000? These so-called "NFTs" have taken the digital world by storm and caused mass hysteria, but many major questions about them still loom. What even are they, and...