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The debate that was scheduled for next week has just been announced that it will be held virtually instead of in person. Originally the debate was supposed to be in Miami Florida in a town hall.

Since the debate is now being held virtually Joe Biden and his campaign have agreed but Trump and his campaign said no. “I’m not going to do a virtual debate, it’s a waist of my time” says president Trump. There is no law that states president Trump has to participate so he doesn’t have to show up.

Part of the reason why president Trump won’t participate is because they would be able to stop his audio whenever they want so he can’t interrupt. In someways this would be a good thing because there would be fewer interruptions and the debate would move more smoothly.

In my opinion I think the debate should be unperson but since Trump has covid its for the safety of everyone to have the debate virtual. I think that it’s fine if he doesn’t want to do it because it can be hard having a debate over the computer. However he could have been nicer and respect the debate some more

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/08/921538492/second-presidential-debate-to-be-virtual-commission-says

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Greta Thunberg from Sweden gave a speech yesterday about climate change. She spoke on behalf of climate justice.

In her speech she describes how mankind is moving “forward” with their inventions and products but don’t even consider the mess that they leave behind. “We cannot solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis.” Thunberg also said that we need to keep fossil fuels in the ground and stop bringing so much of it out.

“We have run out of excuses and we are running out of time.” The time is now and it starts with us recognizing the problem and developing a plan for how to fix this problem.

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Morningside Graduate, Steven Postolka came back to talk to the class Tuesday about his life and what he does for a career.

Steven went to Morningside and double majored in Political Science and Mass com and went on to law school at the university of Iowa. Then got a job for Sioux City, “I represent the city in court if they are being sued or if the city wants to sue I represent them as well”. Steven stressed that a lot of his work is not in the court room but in fact outside of it.

Sioux City isn’t that big of a city but how many times does it get sued in a year? “Around tens of thousands but the cases aren’t big enough for the ones for me to handle.” A lot of the cases that come through or against the city are minor like workers comp. “But sometimes we get sued for claims as big as a million dollars, those are the types of cases that I handle.”\

Since Steven is good at his job it has opened the door of opportunity to other states and other cities that are bigger. But Steven. said “I like this city, I like my pay and I’m happy here, its hard for me to move on.”

Makes sense that Steven wants to stay because he went to college here and is very familiar to the place. It was awesome having him in and having him talk about his work experiences and what he has achieved so far in his career. He is a really interesting guy and it was cool to have him come back to his old college.

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Last night was the first presidential debate, and a chance for America to get a first look of what our future might look like. Instead we just got a couple of guys in their 70s arguing like babies. “Will you just shut up, man” says Joe after Trump interrupted him for the 100th time. No one could get a full sentence out without being interrupted especially Joe.

Donald gets a D for a grade for his debate because if his lack of focus on the questions, not able to let Biden finish, and for making rude and mean remarks towards Joe during or after he talked.

Joe gets a D as well because of his inability to focus, inability to stay on topic, lost a lot of possible voters, and not letting president Trump finish at times.

Overall I think it is terrible that this is the best America has to offer and I find it quite scary that I seem more mature than our current president ( maybe because if I debate I listen to what the other party has to say but that’s just me). America seems like it may be in trouble for the next four years but who knows, maybe future debates may change my mind, probably not, but maybe.

CNN news

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/opinions/why-the-debate-went-terribly-wrong-graham/index.html

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A man was spotted on a bus in England Monday morning wearing a 4ft long snake as a face mask! “At first I thought it was a funky mask” but then the reptile moved and quick to find out it was not a mask. “No one batted an eyelid.”

As crazy as it seems for someone to put a snake around their face like that, it is not proper COVID-19 attire and police made him put on a real mask after discovering the snake was his only protection.

People are coming up with odd and crazy forms of masks and shields. This man in Manchester had the right idea, just didn’t fit the guidelines.

In my opinion its a unique idea to have a reptile as your mask but it doesn’t help prevent the spread of the virus. Using a snake as a mask is actually quite dangerous because it is a wild animal. It can easily bite someone else or choke him. Snakes do not belong in public places nor on peoples faces. Please take notes of this action and don’t put a animal on your face saying its a face mask

Fox News

https://www.foxnews.com/world/british-man-live-snake-face-mask-public-bus-photo

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The Dallas Cowboys played their first game of the season Monday night against the L.A. Rams. The Cowboys lost 20-17 with a chance to tie going into the last few minutes of the 4th quarter. Dad Prescott is the quarterback and caption of the team. He was asking for 45 million for 5 years but cowboys saw different and put a franchise tag on him.

After going 8-8 last year Dak thought leading a team that was even, was good enough for him to ask for that much. a bust season last year and the start of a bust season this year. The Cowboys better thing of something quick before it is to late and yet again out of the playoffs.

Some changes were made though in the coaching staff of the cowboys. Head coach and former player Jason Garrett was fired and then hired by the Giants as their head offensive coach.

Will the Cowboys turn it around this year and make a playoff run and win yet another super bowl or will they do what they did last year and choke another playoff run.

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Good news for the first time in a long time in 2020. The Trump administration announced that widespread distribution of a vaccine against the coronavirus would happen before the end of the year, directly contradicting Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield. But more specifically “sometime in October,” though “it may be a little later than that.”

Top health officials testified that the vaccine wouldn’t be ready until next spring or summer in 2021. They stress that wearing a mask is the most important thing to protect people from this virus. “I might even go so far as to say that this face mask is more guaranteed to protect me against COVID than when I take a COVID vaccine,”  Redfield told a Senate panel Wednesday.

Redfield also stated that the first of the vaccines aren’t going out to the public right when they are done, but to the first responders and those who are dealing with COVID on the front lines. “we’ll start delivering it immediately upon getting it.” said Trump.

Once the vaccine gets approved by the food and drug administration, free vaccines will be distributed amongst the public. “We will move that as fast as possible, within a day or so, to administration sites after we get the word from the FDA,” said Lt. Gen. Paul Ostrowski.

The end of COVID-19 may be near as we are closing in on the finishing touches of the vaccine. Administration sites may be limited early on to target particular populations and storage requirements. Later, sites could expand to include pediatric and adult health care providers and pharmacies.

COVID is still going on and as of right now there are no vaccines so the best way to keep yourself safe and others is to practice social distancing, and to wear a mask. Wearing a mask may be difficult or hard for some, but if we keep up with these safety procedures, normalization will be with us soon.

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After class today I went to go have lunch at one of my favorite places on campus, Bucks. Bucks aka the mustang grill, is a Starbucks like setting where students can go and relax and hang out or even work on homework. When you walk down the stairs and towards bucks, your sense of smell is one of the first things that hits you about this place. It always smells like a freshly made cheeseburger or freshly made pizza (depends on the day).

Depending on the time you go it is usually crowded, I went around lunchtime and the atmosphere was just typical college kids hanging out and talking about what they are going to do for the day, how their Ed 300 is the most boring class to sit through and also what is the best thing to get at bucks.

I sat down with Hope Carrier to figure out what the best thing to get there was. She said chicken sandwich with union rings as the side. I respectfully told her that she was Wrong and the best thing there is either the pizza or the Mustang burger which is just a cheese burger but with bacon on top.

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If you haven’t heard by now you have probably seen the videos and pictures of the sky turning orange. No this is not a filter nor is it a camera trick. The sky turning orange is due to the large fires that are burning in California, Oregon, and in Washington state.

One of the fires now has reached the status of “biggest fire in California history”. The fire was sparked by lightning in Mendocino National Forest, midway between Sacramento and the Oregon border, and has consumed at least 471,000 acres. That is 12,000 more than the 459,000 acres that burned in the Mendocino Complex wildfire in 2018. 

At this point firefighters are stretched between the three states and all working together to put out these fires. Around 3.1 million acres have burned in California alone, 672,000 in Oregon and 500,000 in Washington state. Towns have been wiped out. “It looks like a bomb went off” said Oregons governor.

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A Texaco gasoline truck was reported as overturned on the outskirts of town of 48th street and correctionville. The gas got all over the roads and ditches.

This was a very serious situation within the first two hours of the truck flipping. There were so much gas that it flooded the streets and the ditches. This forced 4 families to evacuate their homes because of sewer-line gas

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