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Blasting Through Pages of News:
What Side of the Mailbox Do I Work Tonight?

It isn't a privilege to spend a lifetime revealing tragedy, or is it?

(SALEM) - The day in the life of a seven day a week electronic journalist is an ever-repetitive act to witness. The news each day may be brand new but the motions we go through to publish that news seldom changes.

I wanted to blast out this thought about how it feels sometimes to be confronted with pages of email and to try to decide, where to begin, the latest, or the oldest?

Secret Service Agents Forced Out

Poetry examines the US legal justice system's strange choice of priorities.

(CLEVELAND) - Secret Service agents are resigning their positions over a recent scandal involving prostitutes in Colombia. Sex and officials always are a big news topic of course.

Too bad the same level of official intervention, 'justice', or even interest, failed to apply in the Murder of a young female soldier serving her country in Iraq, named Lavena Johnson.

What if Somebody Gave a War and Nobody Came?

Israel has bombed and attacked Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Gaza and the Sinai. In the same period Iran has attacked no one!

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Achtung! Under no circumstances is a German legally permitted to criticize Israel! But Nobel Prize winning poet Günter Grass says: WHAT MUST BE SAID.

The poem is more political than poetic, and that bothers its critics. Bibi Netanyahu called it "shameful".

Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton: `Finally`

"More than 2 million people joined our call for Zimmerman's arrest."

(SANFORD, FL) - We are still devastated by the loss of our son Trayvon Martin, and nothing can bring him back. But today, we are heartened to tell you that justice may finally be served for Trayvon.

This evening, Florida State Attorney Angela Corey announced that she will charge George Zimmerman with 2nd degree murder, weeks after he confessed to killing Trayvon -- and now he's in custody.

Trayvon Martin Killing: Let Investigations Run Their Course

Everyday we hear about the public outrage about the incident. Isn't it time for everyone to step back and wait for the Justice Department and the State of Florida to complete their investigations.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - On Feb. 26, 2012, Trayvon Martin, an unarmed teenager, was shot to death by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watchman captain.

The teen was walking inside a gated community in Sanford, Florida, where his father and stepmother lived.

Urgent Response to Racism: Police Screening Needed

Obviously screening of both neighborhood watch personnel and police in many cases, needs to be reexamined.

(SALEM) - There may or may not be parallels between the killing of an innocent Black teen recently in Sanford, FL and the massacre of 16 Muslim innocents in an Afghan village at the hands of a sergeant from Ft. Lewis, WA who apparently went berserk.

Legislative action could result in reducing similar tragedies.

Trayvon Martin`s Parents Speak Out Over Son`s Death

Our son Trayvon Martin was killed because he looked "suspicious." His confessed killer is still free. Join 900,000 people to call on Florida law enforcement officials to prosecute the man who took away our son.

(SANFORD, FL) - Our son didn't deserve to die. Trayvon Martin was just 17 years old when he was shot and killed by George Zimmerman.

Trayvon wasn't doing anything besides walking home with a bag of Skittles and some iced tea in his hands.

Half a Million Americans Prepared to Take Down George Zimmerman

No law should be used to cloak racism and murder.

(SALEM) - I have a feeling that the murder/racism suspect George Zimmerman is going down one way or another. This kid that he killed, was just a boy, he wasn't even 18-years old.

Trayvon Martin was an aspiring A and B student who was interested in flying, and was an athlete, from a solid family with no criminal background.

Why Trayvon Martin`s Death Should Matter to You

Anyone bold enough to talk about George Zimmerman and his rights to be presumed innocent until proven guilty needs to remember something very important. Trayvon Martin did not get the opportunity.

(SANFORD, FL) - All of the facts in the tragic case of Trayvon Martin have yet to come to the surface, but there are two important facts we do know. Trayvon Martin is dead and George Zimmerman admitted to killing a defenseless young man.

What upsets me and most rational people the most is how the case has been handled by the Sanford Police Department.

Trayvon Martin RIP As U R Not Alone

What excuses exist for what is taking place over a Black teen's tragic shooting death.

(CLEVELAND) - Trayvon Martin's story leaves Americans reaching for answers- to questions that should never have to be asked. Regional trends dictate the spirit of a community.

Florida is a U.S. state that once turned its back and broke away, to become part of a force determined to wipe out the free United States and exist within the slave-owning Confederacy.