Repurposing has become all-the-craze within today’s society. Popular TV shows like “Flea Market Flip” and “American Pickers” have become a vital part of our pop culture, where celebrity hosts along with ordinary people, salvage and recycle old and at times discarded items, transforming them into new, useful and unique objects. One of those discarded items appeared in a real estate promotion catching the eye of a British woman named Elizabeth Strutton, who had always dreamed of owning a WWII bunker. Strutton and her husband, Mike, saw an advertisement in a real estate office window for the barely visible heavily fortified…
Author: Robert Amoroso
In February of 2020 during New York’s Fashion Week, the “glass-ceiling” was once again shattered into millions of tiny pieces when 24-year-old model Sofia Jirau, stepped onto the runway, joined by 17 other young women as the first-ever Down syndrome model employed within the internationally acclaimed Victoria’s Secret stable of models. “One day I dreamt it, I worked at it and today it’s a dream come true. I can finally share my big secret,” Jirau wrote on her Instagram in Spanish, alongside a black and white photo of herself sporting a bra from the company. “I am the first Victoria’s…
If you’ve recently visited your friendly neighborhood auto dealership lately, perhaps looking for an end of year sale, you have probably been stricken with sudden sticker-shock after reading the price tag of that brand new vehicle. According to the latest Consumer Price Index, the price of a new vehicle climbed 11.1% within the last 6 months, and there’s no relief in sight. The culprit is a combination of spiraling inflation and inventory shortages at the dealership, due in part to the lack of availability of Chinese semiconductors. “We have to charge more money for the cars because we’re paying more…
The tension between Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the powerful Teachers’ Union reached a fever pitch Tuesday night. The rank-and-file members of the union voted in a late night session they were overwhelmingly (73%) in favor of going back to remote learning until at least January 18th, when the union will once again evaluate the severity of Omicron cases within the “windy city.” Officials for Chicago Public Schools cancelled classes Wednesday as the school system clashed with the Teachers’ Union over their desire to temporarily go back to a remote learning model. This way of learning has had dire consequences…
We’ve no doubt seen video footage of the so called “insurrection” at the US Capitol back on January 6th, 2021, played and replayed countless times on dozens of different news outlets and on social media sites. Within the next few days on the anniversary of that ill-fated event, we’ll surely be forced to witness that event all over again. However, this time House Republican leaders are finally growing a backbone. They’re demanding that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) answer some fundamental questions concerning the lack of preparation in securing the Capital “before” the Trump demonstration took place, and that her…
Faced with a critical self-induced shortage of healthcare workers, the state of Rhode Island has been forced to rehire the unvaccinated and COVID-positive healthcare employees they recently fired for not being vaccinated. Amid a surge of new coronavirus cases, the state issued new COVID-19 guidelines on Friday, opting to have COVID-positive health care workers continue working if their facility is facing a staffing crisis. According to Joseph Wendelken, a spokesperson from the department of health, “Facility administrators should be using their clinical judgment in making staffing decisions. For example, a facility may opt for a COVID-19 positive worker to only…