Identifying Local Opportunities

For this assignment I used the New York Times

Problem #1

Egyptian Museum Officials Face Tribunal for Damaging King Tutankhamen’s Mask

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/25/world/middleeast/egypt-museum-king-tutankhamen-mask.html

In this article, eight Egyptian museum workers are being suspended and possibly facing permanent dismissal from their jobs, after they accidently knocked the beard off of the famous golden burial mask of King Tutankhamen, later gluing it back, making it look worse than before. The mask of King Tut is one of the world’s most prized artifacts.

Problem #2

Feds to End Ultralight-Led Whooping Crane Migration

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/01/24/us/ap-us-whooping-cranes-wisconsin.html

Spoken about in this article, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made a claim that they will stop supporting the use of Ultralight aircrafts to help whooping cranes migrate from Wisconsin to Florida every fall, due to the birds’ failure of reproducing them in the wild. This has been going on for 15 years and officials say that after spending 20 million dollars in establishing his migration, these birds are better off migrating somewhere else. These birds may have an easier time reproducing elsewhere, where they have been seen to be more successful breeding in areas differing from Wisconsin and Florida.

Problem #3

Italy Divided Over Effort to Legalize Civil Unions for Gays

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/25/world/europe/italy-divided-over-effort-to-legalize-civil-unions-for-gays.html

After two couples try for years to have the same rights as opposite-sex couples to marry in Italy, the civil unions split in effort to make same-sex marriage legal. The issue seems to have weakened the support from the public in the recent year because polls show that support for same-sex civil unions has dropped to 46 percent in January, compared with 67 percent last May. Some official’s day this needs to come to an end after the European Court of Human Rights found that Italy’s failure to recognize same-sex unions represented a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Problem #4

Three Killed in Bombing Claimed by Islamic State in Northeast Syria

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2016/01/24/world/middleeast/24reuters-mideast-crisis-syria-hasaka.html

This problem aroused when a bomb threatened the lives of many Christian people, leaving seven people wounded and three dead. The bomb attack has been led by an Islamic group ISIS based, is threatening the lives, but the U.S.-led coalition to end this in Syria has been fighting ISIS in order to do so.

Problem #5

Republicans Risk Repeating Mistake on Hispanic Vote

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/25/us/politics/republicans-risk-repeating-mistake-on-hispanic-vote.html

In this article, it states “Hispanics are the fastest-growing slice of the electorate”. Thus, meaning that Republicans spoke out after they have lost the popular vote in five of the past six presidential elections. The party has decided they need to increase their efforts on trying to appeal more to Latinos to win the White House. Another huge problem the party faced during this was immigration policies and laws.