Archives for Year: 2016

My Insides Churn in Protest

November 11, 2016

An Unforeseen Election This week, the United States elected a new president. Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton to become the 45th president-elect. Nearly every poll predicted Clinton would win, so many news outlets and citizens were caught off-guard by Trump’s come-from-behind victory. Everywhere, people are trying to figure out what they overlooked. The Divided States […]

Enlarged in the Waiting

October 27, 2016

It’s About Time The Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians. If you haven’t heard, the two baseball teams in this year’s World Series haven’t won the Pennant in a long time. The Cleveland Indians last won a World Series in 1948. The Cubs? Four decades earlier in 1908. The two longest droughts in the League. […]

Looking for Help

October 16, 2016

What’s the Story? Hurricane Matthew is expected to be the first major hurricane to make landfall in the US since 2005’s Wilma. With 115 mph winds, the hurricane has already devastated remote parts of Haiti and Cuba. Now it’s making its way to Florida—expected sometime Friday—before traveling up the East Coast toward the Carolinas. Both […]