Written by Jennifer Cooper on December 16, 2009 – 11:43 pm
Dec. 16, 2009 More than a year ago my husband and I were at home one Sunday morning when he noticed the back of our apartment was on fire. Faulty electrical wiring in the restaurant below had created a fire that was likely smoldering for hours before it spread to our apartment. In the months [...]
Written by Jennifer Cooper on December 15, 2009 – 11:57 pm
Dec. 15, 2009 It is not a good time to be a teenager looking for a job. While the unemployment rate in the United States was at 10 percent for November 2009, some 26.7 percent of teenagers were unemployed in that same time period, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The month prior saw [...]
Written by Jennifer Cooper on December 10, 2009 – 6:11 pm
Dec. 10, 2009 Today President Barack Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. He accepts this honor just over a week after he announced he would send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan at a cost of roughly $30 billion. Besides the obvious question as to how a man who has expanded two wars could have received [...]