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Luis Ramirez

was fatally beaten by a group of male teens in Shenandoah, PA last July.  Yesterday Brandon Piekarsky, 17, and Derrick Donchak, 19, were only convicted of simple assault.

I’m disgusted by the jury’s verdict and the finding of Ramirez’s death as a street fight that ended tragically.

Where’s the justice? Where’s the responsibility of pummeling someone and kicking him in the head while he’s down on the ground? I can’t describe how angry I am; it’s outrageous that those involved could get away with murder.

Best Cockroach Killer

wish i had known about this in the summer
Only in Japan

Just another day at UMD

On March 27th, 2009 at 11:36p.m. the victim was walking in the 4600
block of Calvert Road (http://tinyurl.com/cdurcx) when he was accosted
by the two suspects.  They demanded the victim's money while they
punched him in his facial area.  They stole the victim's jacket and
began to flee the scene in a silver Cadillac.  A Prince George's County
Police officer responded to the scene immediately in his cruiser and was
rammed several times by the suspect vehicle.  The passenger exited the
vehicle and fled.  The driver fled in the vehicle and was pursued by
several University of Maryland officers until he crashed his vehicle
into a light pole on Route One.  He was taken into custody and turned
over to the Prince George's County Police.  The second suspect is still
at large.

I've received about 25 of these alerts since I started here in the summer.
Honestly I'm happy to leave.

Integrate

I need to integrate my tumbler blog with this one and don’t want to lose content from either. what to do, what to do and how….anybody? anybody? bueller? bueller?

Michael Steele Gets Served

Every time I think I’ m going to get sick of Colbert (like when he said he was going to run for president) he always wins me back.

A Rocky Requiem

I didn’t think i’d get so emotional in reading about a paper’s obituary.   The Rocky Mountain News published its last edition today.   I guess the end of a paper is not only the absence of news and information that help to hold the society together, to hold the society accountable or even entertained, but it’s the end of a ritual that was taken for granted for so long.

I’m not sure how the journalism industry is going to look like even 5 years from now.  I’ll be graduating with a journalism master’s this year in probably the worst economy since the Great Depression and the worst state of the newspaper industry.  Although the medium might change to the internet or mobile phones, good reporting is still needed.  I always felt the more competition in the marketplace of opinions and viewpoints, the better. I’m sure politicians and public officials will miss being badgered by reporters; they are the only ones who pay any attention to them anyway.

I’m definitely stressed out and worried if I’ll have a job by the time I graduate. I’m finding it hard to even have the time to apply for a job with all the school work I have on my plate.  The irony is of course, I’m spending all this time preparing for an industry that is dying reinventing itself.

(online, at a different paper.)

Hi

I DONT HAVE TIME TO UPDATE THIS BLOG.

Just my facebook =)

New

I’m excited to have finally switched servers from webhost4life to bluehost.

Bluehost is a lot faster,  has customer service by phone and has one free domain name registration.

I have yet to tinker around in it but can’t wait. I will probably get rid of this WP theme just so I could learn how to customize everything on wmy own.

Honestly…

The passengers on the US Airways plane that landed in the Hudson should be grateful THAT THEY ARE ALIVE and not asking for more than $5000. It sucks to lose your clothes, your laptops, your documents and your cute little shoes, but in the long run they’re not important and asking for more money is what’s causing airlines to run red.

How does more money ever restore nerves and compensate for emotional distress?! Should the airlines be sued every time there’s inclement weather or migratory birds?!

Press Cred

Went to the Capitol today to get my press credentials.  It was nice to take a tour of the senate buildings and ride the little underground trains that connect them. I also watched Kaufman being sworn into the Senate and saw Biden and Cheney for the first time.  In a way, I wish I was in the D.C. bureau instead of the online bureau which is located on the UMD’s campus but hopefully I’ll be making most of my time in College Park….
For inauguration, I have to spend most of the morning at The Washington Post’s bureau in Arlington. My only consolation is that I won’t be cold.