April 2010
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Hey LeBron: rethink your priorities
Yahoo! Sports reported yesterday that LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers was upset over comments made by USA Basketball managing director, Jerry Colangelo, last week.
James, the Cavaliers only MVP in NBA history, holds many youngest player records and has been a stand-out player since he was selected as the number one draft pick in 2003.
Colangelo told Yahoo! last Wednesday that...
March 2010
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We need a few more G.I. Janes
About a month ago, Navy and Defense Department officials notified Congress of their intent to lift the ban on women serving on submarines.
CNN.com reported that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, along with chief of naval operations and the secretary of the Navy, made the recommendation with no opposition from Navy leaders.
Under the plan, officers would be the first position to go co-ed and...
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St. Patrick's Day Rumors Dispelled
As if my name didn’t give it away already, I am of Irish heritage. I am 3/4 Irish and was been raised with a strong sense of Irish pride and culture. So as it’s St. Patrick’s Day today, I feel obligated to inform the public about what St. Patrick’s Day actually means and dispel some Irish rumors and phrase that typically get mixed up.
So who was St. Patrick?
The reality...
February 2010
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Well, there's always Hawaii
Last week, news mediums all over the country reported that President Obama had called for a bipartisan summit on health care reform. The president is making an effort to bridge the ever-growing gap between Republicans and Democrats and resolve one of the most pressing matters facing Congress today.
Sounds great, right? The Republicans didn’t think so.
House Republican leader John Boehner...
“Republicans Privately Worry Obama May Be Laying Trap With Televised Health Care...”
– Headline from Foxnews.com on Feb. 9, 2010.
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We might be better off in prison
The first week of school is always crazy. You have to get to school before 8 just to get a decent parking spot, there is a line out of the door of the Sip and good luck if you’re trying to add classes.
Speaking of trying to add classes, I was talking to a friend about her classes and she had an interesting story. She is enrolled in a speech class, where there is a 40 person maximum per...
What exactly is News Worthy?
According to www.thefreedictionary.com, newsworthy means:
news·wor·thy
adj. news·wor·thi·er, news·wor·thi·est. Of sufficient interest or importance to the public to warrant reporting in the media.
This blog will discuss just that.
In TV news, it may seem like all news is big news, but that is not the case for print journalism.
I’ve been a newspaper journalist for five years now, and so...