5A- Identifying Local Opportunities
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“Commission to decide rezoning request Tuesday”
by Michael O’Hearn of the Time-Georgian
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This story written of January 30th,
2020 explains how a state patrol station is being demolished. Essentially the
main point of the article is that since the building was left vacant it serves
no purpose.
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The main problem presented in this story is that
the station went from being the busiest post in the area to completely
abandoned in about three years. The vacancy left the building to fall into
despair as no one was responsible for the upkeep after the office was
relocated. It was described as being in “deplorable conditions” and the
situation was even brought before the county commissioners to be fixed.
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The people who have this problem are the
residents of the area who must live near the building is bad shape, the county
commissioners who must solve the problem, the owners of the property who have
to pay for the cleanup, and the company who is responsible for renovating the
property.
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“Most of Holman prison closing” by Melissa Brown
and Brian Lyman of the Montgomery Advisor
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Essentially, an older less updated prison in
Alabama is closing due to safety concerns such as the housing areas for
electric, water, and sewer systems being damaged.
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The problem is that because the prison is
closing, current inmates must be transferred and other areas that will close at
later phase must be renovated to house inmates that are not being transferred.
Over 600 inmates from Holman prison are being shuffled to other facilities in
the state which both adds more crowding to those institutions and
inconveniences the employees in charge of the transfer.
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The people that have the largest problem are the
inmates themselves as several of them are serving life sentences and were
expecting to die in Holman. Other individuals being affected by this closing
are all the employees who work at the prison, as there isn’t another similar facility
near-by that they can transfer employment to. A final person affected would be
the lower security inmates families who now must travel for possibly hours to
visit their loved ones.
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“Tas force warns against illegal prescriptions”
by Max Efrein of The Daily Courier
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The main point of the article is that because
there is an increase in prescription drug overdoses and that task forces are
taking steps that attempt to limit the frequency of this and inform patients
through their pharmacy of the risks.
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The problem in this article is that the purchase
of illegal prescription pills is more dangerous than ever because of the increased
potency of the drugs being dealt today. This creates a stress on the MATForce (a
specialized task force to limit prescription drug overdoses). Another issue is
the increase in deaths and health issues caused by the prescription medication
overdoses.
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The people who have the problem in this scenario
is both the task force that deals with these issues, the pharmacy that have to
create informational policy for customers, and the individuals illegally consuming
the drugs that they are unaware are dangerously potent.
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“Rays to City: Trop land isn’t for use” by Josh
Solomon of the Tampa Bay Times
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The
main gist of the article is that The Tampa Bay Rays baseball team is refusing
to allow the Tropicana Field Stadium to be used or developed even though they
are searching for a new home without the mayor’s approval.
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The
problem in the article is that the baseball teams officials are continuing with
their plan to split the season between St.Pete and Montreal in an effort to
save the team, spurred by low fan attendance. They do this without the mayor’s
approval however which caused deteriorated relations between the team and city
hall since the summer.
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The
problem is mainly an issue for the city of St.Petersburg as the team is attempting
to breech their contract with the city and also for the team as it seems that
St.Pete officials are not in the position to cut them any slack.
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“After gun violence, students call for action” by
Kate Russell and Molly Duffy of The Gazette
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The article is written to describe recent events
for students at Cedar Rapids High School that has sparked students to demand a
safer environment for their education.
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The main problem in this context is that gun violence
has increased dramatically, even within the last week as two harmful events occurred.
The students went as far as staging a walkout because the conditions continued
to intensify. With an armed robbery on campus and 2 men killed, the increase in
crime for this high school is clearly a problem.
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Obviously, the main group with the problem is the
student body, who feel unsafe attending school every day. Faculty and staff of Cedar
Rapids are also faced with the problem as they are employed in what could be
considered an unsafe work environment. Finally, law enforcement could be facing
the issue as they are essentially responsible for handling fun violence on
school campuses, which typically is a difficult and dangerous call to respond
to.
Hey Jordan,
ReplyDeleteI found all your stories very interesting and I find that all of your explanations and descriptions of the stories are very thorough. One of your articles that I found most interesting was the one you wrote about the warnings against illegal prescriptions. I've heard that illegal prescription drugs like painkillers are a huge problem in America so it's no surprise to see it in a news article like that. In fact, the last three famous rappers that have died were from painkillers that weren't prescribed to them. I also really liked how you identified 3 unique groups of people who were affected. It shows you put quite some thought and time into your blog! Great job overall!
Samuel Ackenine