Does anyone else wonder why health care reform has taken so long to be enacted? It seems that something so central to fixing our economy and the health of our nation would have received bipartisan support almost immediately.
Unfortunately, we live in a highly polarized political world, and health care is a highly polarized issue. Not surprisingly, then, the partisan politics of modern America have prevented swift reform. Instead of saying, “Yes,” and listening to the opposite side, our elected officials continued to naysay others’ opinions. Continue Reading

By Lake Coreth, News Editor -

On June 28, 2009, in the first coup in Central America since the cold war, the Honduran military supplanted the elected President Manuel Zelaya. Zelaya had attempted to amend the Honduras Constitution, established in 1982, in order to run for a second-term in office and was met with great opposition. After Zelaya was removed from office and exiled from the coun­try, the Honduran Congress and Su­preme Court authorized the military to transfer power to a de facto govern­ment head by Roberto Micheletti, the president of the Congress. Continue Reading