It’s time the United States helped put an end to ISIS. Those who worry the United States’ involvement could place our soldiers in another Iraq War situation need to think about how much more terror ISIS could spread if they aren’t stopped. They need to think about how each video of an innocent person’s beheading

Manipulating the cost of college is not the answer to post-graduate unemployment. It’s no secret that college is expensive no matter what type of financial background you come from, and it’s easy to think lowering the cost of attendance will prevent joblessness. But encouraging students who have passion and visions for themselves to take a

Why does God hate kids? Why me? Who are my parents? Do they love me? Imagine a child asking those questions. Many foster kids in our society ask these questions. I asked some of these questions. And as I write this, I can see the tears that are dropping on my keyboard. It was never

Years before the world knew of the existence of the violent terrorist group called the Islamic State, Steven Sotloff was a student journalist. Before Sotloff covered conflict in Egypt and Syria for Time magazine, the Christian Science Monitor and Foreign Policy, he was a senior staff writer at University of Central Florida’s Central Florida Future.

Local lore tells of a nude beach at the northern-most tip of Fort Desoto Beach.  When I moved here seven years ago, my new friends described a place that sounded like paradise.  A recent refugee of the Bible Belt, a place where one could bask openly in God’s glorious light with nothing to cover one’s

Ebola has infected and killed thousands long before the 2014 outbreak. About 431 people died in the first record outbreak in 1976. More than 30 years and 3,091 deaths later, a vaccine is now in the development stages. African nations including Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and more have been infected over the past nine months. But

A holiday is defined as a day that is set aside by law or custom which work is suspended or reduced. On Sunday Sept. 7, the NFL season started. Well, technically it was last Thursday, but unless you’re a fan of one of those two teams, it doesn’t count. The first Sunday of the NFL

It was just another day at work. Except on this day, I’m standing on a stranger’s porch with a gun pointed at my face. This is my job. It was my second-to-last stop of the night. As soon as I started knocking on this person’s door I had a feeling in my stomach that this

Professional football players who batter their significant others will now receive a harsher slap on the wrist. On Thursday, National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell announced that the league is strengthening its personal-conduct policy. Active immediately, any NFL employee who uses physical force to commit an act of assault, battery, domestic violence or sexual assault

St. Petersburg didn’t always feel this homey. The murals that were splashed onto alley walls in the recent years and the revival of antique indications of buildings’ ages are a recent trend that has brought the Sunshine City back to life. North St. Petersburg is a region of urban sprawl and decay, perhaps due to