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Austria’s Kurz Becomes Youngest World Leader.
Austria recently held their national election on October 15th, with Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz coming out victorious. Kurz will become the world’s youngest national leader at the age of 31. The new Austrian chancellor has been compared…
Make a Difference in the Local Canton Community this Weekend.
Occurring this Saturday, October 21, Make a Difference Day is fast approaching. For those that don’t know, Make a Difference Day is a day for SLU students to go out into the Canton community and donate their time to service projects. These…
People Should Know By Now.
Today, I am angry. I am angry as I watch another “me too” scrawl across my Facebook newsfeed. I am angry as I watch friends, family, acquaintances rehash their traumas in an effort to bring awareness to an all too pervasive issue. I am…
Attack The Gender Wage Gap By Dispelling the Myths.
The statistic that women earn $0.80 to every dollar a man earns is the most repeated number of the feminist movement. It makes for great quick quips on any blog rant about inequality, or for a local coffee shop that goes viral with an…
Let’s #PutAPriceOnIt: The Case for Implementing a Carbon Tax.
Climate change today is a dire situation. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the most well-trusted source on the issue, has established that human-caused global warming must remain under 2 degrees Celsius…
The Excelsior Scholarship: To Impotence and Beyond.
When the ever-affable-governor, Andrew Cuomo, announced that NYS was rolling out a bill designed to make tuition free for all college students, my mind raced with visions of brave families packing their bags and sending their child off to…
Privatization in Puerto Rico: Keep PREPA Public
The devastation that Hurricane Maria did to Puerto Rico is staggering. At this time, the Puerto Rican government reports that just 45 percent of the population has drinking water and only 5 percent has electricity. Not to mention the 16…
Sticking to Sports: President Trump Issues Statements on NBA, NFL Players & Protests
This past week, President Trump spoke and tweeted about several of America’s most prominent professional athletes’ political stances. Taking aim at the Golden State Warriors and the entire NFL, Trump made clear that he will continue to be a…