GlobalShift

Recently, Detroit’s leaders announced a unique plan to save the dying city. The plan calls for almost a quarter of the city to be demolished and returned to fields and grassland. Detroit is a big city, roughly 139 square miles (think of it as an equivalent to six Manhattans) and it can no longer support itself. One of the biggest problems is the amount of police, firemen, and ambulance drivers it takes to cover the large city.

Modern journalism is changing, and this has wide effects on democracy, human rights, and the constitution — and yes this is being reported in a blog.

On Friday Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, announced which 11 U.S. airports will begin using the controversial body scanning machines. After the attempted Christmas Day attack on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, some airports (Heathrow and Manchester) in the U.K. have started using them. There are however still a lot of semi-answered questions.

Obama agrees with one of McCain’s arguments at the healthcare summit, surprising the senator, and showing American that they have a non-partisan president, but that his patience is waning.

Historically thought of as a condition unique to women, eating disorders are increasing among college-aged men. In honor of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, GlobalShift takes a look at why, and possible solutions to curb the rising number of those afflicted.

On Sunday, March 7th, the Oscars will be giving out awards to this past year’s best films. One of the potential winners is the documentary “Burma VJ” which stars U Gawsita, a Buddhist monk from Burma who has been living as refugee in Utica, NY for the past year.
“Burma VJ”is about a peaceful protest lead [...]

After more than a month of hearing about and seeing photos of the devastation of the 7-magnitude earthquake, I was horrified to hear “8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile” when I scanned the news on Saturday. The quake was 1,000 times as strong as the one in Haiti that left hundreds of thousands of people dead and [...]

It used to be that when you moved to a new city and didn’t know anyone, or just graduated from school with not a lot of job experience, you could always temp. Maybe you’d get lucky and you find a job somewhat to your liking and get hired on permanently after a few months. Nowadays, like everything else in the job market, temping is not what it used to be. A rise in temp workers used to mean an improving economy. However, according to economists, while temp workers are still being hired, and demand has even risen, they are not often hired on permanently. The benefit to companies is that they don’t have to pay benefits and they don’t have to fire people they can’t afford to keep. In my experience, it is a rare temp agency that offers benefits that equals more than some help in opening a medical emergency savings account or some crumpled coupons to Lenscrafters.

Rapper Lil Wayne may be “hip-hop’s greatest unstoppable force,” but starting March 2, he’ll be forced to stop for 12 months. Lil Wayne, real name Dwayne Carter, is going to jail for gun possession, as he should. The rapper is certainly not the only celebrity to be caught up in illegal activities, but he’s one [...]

In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the pressure for Washington to take drastic action in protecting Americans was immense. With emotions flying high the Patriot Act, also called Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism, was passed nearly unanimously, with only Russ Feingold voting against the [...]