Author / Alex Bluestone
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Food and Revitalization: Examining the Underlying Structural Problems of Food Deserts
BY ALEX BLUESTONE For most, the term conjures up notions of an urban, post-industrialized city in which a poor—and often marginalized—neighborhood whose residents are limited in their ability to procure healthy food. The result is that, as some research has shown, in neighborhoods and areas with the worst access to food, residents die from cardiovascular-related…
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Greening America’s Past Time: How the Cardinals are Paving the Nation’s Route to Economic and Environmental Sustainability
It is something often connoted with American heritage; indeed, it is a perennial past time. For more reasons than one, baseball represents several character traits of the United States. From the both the outfield and infield of time past, national heroes have emerged to dispel dejection during America’s most-enduring hardships. Recently, however, the sports industry…
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Obamacare: Victory or Disaster?
We live in arguably one of the most rigid and ridiculous eras of political discourse to occur in the last century. And that’s just what this issue has become: in an all-or-nothing political election year, this debate has turned completely and utterly political. Divided into nine titles, the Patient Protection and Affordability Care Act (ACA)…
