The Keystone XL Pipeline is a proposed project that runs from the Canadian sand fields to Steel City, Nebraska. From there it goes further south until it reaches Houston and Port Arthur, Texas. It would improve upon the current Keystone Pipeline by cutting the distance between Hardesty, Canada and Steel City, Nebraska nearly in half. […]
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To an older generation of Americans, the anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination takes them back to that day. Everyone remembers exactly where they were. They visualize classrooms, doctors’ offices, elevators, coffee shops. The memories are specific: “It was my birthday. The principal came to the door and my Kindergarten teacher put the cupcakes back
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The movie, Loving, will open at Kimball’s Theater in downtown Colorado Springs on November 23, 2016. The film follows the courtship and marriage of Mildred Jeter, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man. They are arrested and sentenced to prison in Virginia in 1958 because their interracial marriage violates the state’s anti-miscegenation laws. Exiled
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The Hawaiian Islands are well known all over the world as favorite vacation destinations and for the North Shore’s amazing surf competitions. Dozens of movies and television shows have given viewers a depiction of one part of Hawaiian life or another, but perhaps the most profoundly known piece of Hawaii is Pearl Harbor and what
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It’s not healthy to go outside, nor is it safe. The sunshine hides. Morning rains no longer carry a refreshing scent. Breathing was never meant to bring fear yet now, anxiety has become a byproduct of this natural function. The city’s means of transportation have birthed smog beams so thick they could be slit with
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I’m not sure how many “get into the kitchen and make me a sandwich!” stories I’ve seen passed around the Internet, but the fact that any such stories exist at all is slightly worrying. Who taught boys to treat women like that? Where in school is it said that objectifying others is even close to