Author: Samuel Cross-Meredith

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Park extension builds around growing community

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Siloam Springs keeps pace the development in Northwest Arkansas with the renovation of the memorial park next to the library. Plans for the park started in 2016 when the city won a $300,000 grant for the park’s design from the Walton Family Foundation. Siloam Springs’s Board of Directors approved the […]

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An anonymous opinion piece ignites discussion across the states

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An anonymous opinion piece published by The New York Times depicted someone from the inside of President Donald Trump’s administration as filtering the President’s desk. “I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.” Claims the author […]

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Genesis house builds tiny homes

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Genesis House built eight houses—termed “tiny houses”—meant to shelter homeless families and prepare them for their lives off the streets. The organization started building these houses as part of a long-term initiative called “Jumpstart” that focuses on long-term solutions endemic to impoverished individuals. Genesis House began as a day shelter […]

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Public safety prioritized after recent tournament shooting

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The growing trend of public shootings has now affected video game tournaments. On August 26, Electronic Arts held a Madden tournament, EA’s series of football video games, at a video game bar in downtown Jacksonville, Florida. David Katz walked into the bar and opened fire, killing two and wounding nine […]

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Video games insignificant factor in violence, researchers say

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When Nikolas Cruz walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High and shot 17 of his peers and teachers, everyone from doctors to survivors to legislators focused on how to prevent another tragedy of this magnitude. Whatever people thought of Cruz before he made his decision, nearly everybody could see that he […]

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Falcon Heavy introduces lower costs for space travel

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SpaceX, a space exploration company founded and headed by Elon Musk, has designed a rocket capable of carrying large payloads and reloading rockets used for take-off, a feat previously unattainable by any space program up to this point. Reusable rockets will dramatically reduce necessary funding for making space-worthy craft. Propulsion […]

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Amazon opens near-autonomous local market

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Amazon, the online mega-retailer, introduced the next step for autonomous shopping: a walk-in market without cashiers, lines or registers. At the entrance of the store, several devices are placed that prohibit entry to anyone who does not have a specific smartphone app. Not unlike subway passes, shoppers must scan in […]

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Lawrence Ware, Kendrick Lamar and the Soveriegnty of God

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Rev. Lawrence Ware gave the Martin Luther King Jr. Day chapel address, with some help from rapper, Kendrick Lamar.  After introducing the Scriptural passage, Ware said, “I would like to talk to you for the next few moments on this idea: We gon’ be alright. We gon’ be alright. Not […]