Author: Samuel Cross-Meredith

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Local shops bring in steady Black Friday profits

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On Black Friday, the few retail stores in Siloam Springs explode with Christmas shoppers looking for the best deals. Thanksgiving weekend is terryifying for retail industry employees. Walmart repurposes holiday hires as traffic directors. Lines stretch and curve around electronics stores such as GameStop. What may be trouble for the […]

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Homlessness takes on a new definition in Siloam

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A mere thirty folding chairs occupy the city park where Genesis House held its annual event, One Night Without a Home. Rebekah Lindstrom, an alumni from John Brown University, and Job Smoot, a sophomore music major, played music for the gathered advocates. Creative Dining catered with foil baskets of barbecue […]

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Canada close in distance but not identity

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Canada and the United States, two countries with parallel beginnings, have marked differences. The United States famously fought for and won its independence with a clattering of cannon fire and complicated political maneuvers. Canada, in contrast, negotiated its independence with the British crown, through a series of conferences that resulted […]

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March of the DREAMers

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. In a move considered controversial by Democrats and Republicans alike, President Donald Trump called to end the Consideration for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. The program, established through executive order by President Barack Obama, allowed both deferred action and its renewal for undocumented immigrants in […]

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Opioid use fuels further addiction

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Opioid addiction in the United States has claimed thousands of lives. According to American Society of Prescription Medicine, in 2015, there were over 52,000 recorded deaths from opioid overdose. Four out of five current heroin addictions started with prescription painkillers. Opioids have proven themselves to be a huge problem across […]