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Meet the candidates: Barack Obama

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By Eli Bolus

Candidate:  Barack Obama

Political Party: Democrat

Qualifications: Former Senator from Illinois

Website: barackobama.com

Stance on Issues

Economy:  Wants to increase jobs and American manufacturing. Also supports small businesses with tax cuts and increased health care options for employees.

Energy:  Prevent more accidents, like the B.P. oil spill with increased regulations, and increase the use of alternate energy like wind and solar energy.

Education:  Reform No Child Left Behind, reduce teacher lay-offs and “out-educate” the rest of the world.

Environment:  Wants to improve air quality and clear skies by regulating mercury emmsions, which will save up to 17,000 lives each year.

National Security:  Bring the troops home while still working to defeat Al-Queda. He also supports our veterans with improved benefits and opportunities.

Abortion:  Pro-choice.

Immigration:  Secure the border, but also create a better amnesty program for illegal immigrants already living in the U.S.

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Meet the Candidates: Newt Gingrich

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By Eli Bolus

Graphic By Tony Briscoe

Candidate:  Newt Gingrich

Political Party: Republican

Qualifications: Former Speaker of the House

Website: www.newt.org

Stance on Issues

Economy: Basically wants to cut taxes, strengthen dollar, and create jobs by removing “obstacles” to job creation like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Repealing the Dodd-Frank Law.

Energy:  Remove bureaucratic and legal obstacles that stop natural gas development and natural gas. Replace the Environmental Protection Agency, finance cleaner energy.

Education:  Like Mitt Romney, Gingrich wants to reduce the power of the federal Department of Education and  create merit pay for teachers.

Environment:  Supports lowering carbon emissions and conservative-based efforts.

National Security:  Use military force judiciously and clear with obtainable objectives: believes the U.S. must defeat radical Islamists in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Abortion:  Against abortion and supports de-funding Planned Parenthood.

Immigration:  Secure the border, reform visa program and allow amnesty for some who are here illegally.

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Meet the candidates: Mitt Romney

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By Eil Bolus

Candidate:  Mitt Romney

Political Party: Republican

Qualifications: Former Governor of Massachusetts

Website: www.mittromney.com

Stance on Issues

Economy:  Cut spending and make jobs by encouraging economic growth and trade

Energy:  Rapidly develop U.S. natural gas supplies, and natural oil supplies.  Also invest more in nuclear energy.

Education: Revamp education by increasing pay for teachers, eliminating the Federal Department of Education; supports the concept of “No Child Left Behind” and charter schools.

Environment: Supports using Earth’s natural resources like natural gas and oil.

National Security:  Increase military budget and has supported wiretapping mosques.

Abortion:  Pro-life and is in support of de-funding Planned Parenthood and is against stem-cell research.

Immigration:  Should secure the border and stop illegal immigration and is against amnesty for illegal immigrants currently living in the U.S.  Also people should have to carry a card at all times that proves their citizenship and employers hiring should be required to ask for it

Sources

www.mittromney.com

2012.canidates-presidential.org

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New school-wide recycling program preserves budget, environment

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By Eli Bolus

Senior Claire Gapsis throws away all food and Styrofoam before recycling the rest of her meal during lunch.

Anyone who has been in the FC cafeteria lately can tell you there have been some major changes.  The usual line of orderly trash cans has been rearranged, as they now sit in several new places with new directional signs.  The labels on these signs say things like “plastic” and “food.” As you may have guessed this is the newest plan for the corporation wide recycling policy.

Principal Louie Jensen said this policy was implemented by New Albany Floyd County director of facilities Bill Wiseheart, and has been in the works for about two years.

NAFCS maintenance supervisor Steve Green said schools in the corporation are being added one at a time. He that the main reason they were able to implement this is because of a third party they hired.  QRS Recycling is a nation-wide corporation that uses a new technique of recycling called “stream-line” to manage the green disposal means of schools and business.  He said, “The reason we haven’t done this earlier is because people aren’t going to recycle if they have to sort dozens of things out.”

The beauty of QRS, he added, is that they will take 70 percent of the left over materials the school uses and sort and recycle them for them.  This means as long as students sort the food away from everything else there is no other added work for cafeteria workers.

Jensen said the main reason the corporation is recycling should be to save the planet, but there are some other benefits as well.  [Recycling] will save 10 percent of last year’s waste disposal cost after QRS’s fee said Jensen.

Jensen and Green both said they’re excited about the new policy but they expect some resistance from older students.  Green said that younger kids in the elementary schools are more likely to embrace recycling than their older peers. “We hope that they will grow up with recycling and it will become more natural to them,” he said.

QRS will sort and recycling everything from cardboard to pencils for the corporation and save thousands of dollars.