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Future Leaders want improved technology and
more State funding for education

August 24, 2016No Comments

Sedona AZ (August 23, 2016) – Today’s students want more use of technology in educational programs, and improved State funding for education. These subjects dominated the discussions of more than 70 high school students at the Future Leaders Forum on August 18. The Forum was conducted by Arizona Town Hall and the Verde Valley Forum for Public Affairs, and was held at the Clarkdale campus of Yavapai College.

Modern technology is important to the students. Online classes allow greater opportunities to reach students who may not otherwise be able to pursue education. However, in-class time is also important. Some ideas included hybrid offerings — part online plus some classroom time. Use of social media was also mentioned.

The students at this Forum were selected to represent all high schools in the Verde Valley and were generally among the brightest. However, some said that before this Forum they had not even considered going on to college, but this Forum opened their eyes to better options. Some were primarily interested in advanced vocational training.

The students appreciated this opportunity to meet others and have their voices heard regarding subjects of interest to the community. They were given background detail on the history of the democratic process, and the importance of civic engagement to maintain effective government. The relationship between education and sustainable economic development was emphasized.

This Future Leaders Forum was a prelude to the Sept. 9-10 Forum on education, being produced by the Verde Valley Forum for Public Affairs. Applications for this Forum are being accepted until August 31, and may be made online at www.vvforum.org. Its topic will be “The Role of Post-Secondary Education in the Future of the Verde Valley Region.” Its participants will include community leaders, educators, business people and other residents from all Verde Valley communities. Some of these Future Leaders students will also be invited to participate. More information on the VVFPA, its activities and its Sept. 9-10 Forum can be found on the same website.

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A Cauldron of Misconceptions: Sedona Enquirer
By Sean Dedalus

Sedona, AZ — I don’t know what happened to the Publisher of Sedona.Biz, the once moderate and reasonable journalist, Tommy Acosta. Or maybe I do. He must be pulling our leg.

In Mr. Acosta’s last Opinion piece, Cauldron of Chaos, Acosta pins together a necklace of current events and concludes we are on the verge of a “cosmic reckoning”. Acosta throws paint on the canvas with each hand slapping the slop on the imagination of the readers. He says in Georgia, a young college student jogging on campus was raped and murdered by Jose Antonio Ibarra, an illegal alien. Shortly thereafter, Congress passes the Laken Riley Bill.

In Louisiana, Acosta points to Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a US Army veteran who killed 14 people and left 35 more injured after he drove a truck into a crowd on New Years Day.

In New York City Sebastian Zapeta, another illegal alien took out a match and set afire a sleeping woman to death on a Brooklyn subway. Meanwhile, up in Manhattan, the CEO of United Healthcare was shot in the back by Luigi Mangione an Ivy League graduate. Acosta also takes us to Colorado where the Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua took over an entire apartment building.

Acosta is not finished as he suggests that Los Angelas County’s California looked like nine concentric circles of torment which constituted hell on Earth, as spelled out by Dante Aligheri.

Finally, Mr. Acosta draws our attention to the skies all around the world where US Black Op drones follow alien plasma orbs, while Joe Biden wears his typical dumbfounded look and mumbles that even though he does not know what is going on, there is no evidence of any danger to public safety.

Mr. Acosta warns American society is unravelling at the seams. He stops short of predicting the showdown between Jesus and the Antichrist. His Opinion reads like the script to The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock.

I am sorry to report to Mr. Acosta that there is no evil spirit spreading fear throughout America. That’s right. No evil spirit. Just greedy criminals and politicians. And very stupid politicians whose malfeasance borderlines on criminal conduct.

If we were to reflect as to events suggesting the end of the world we need only look back to World War II (1939-1945). Over 30 Nations were actually at war. Over 100 million people served in uniform. An estimated 70-85 million deaths were caused by the conflict, representing about 3% of the global population in 1940. On 6 and 9 of August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 286,818 people were killed.

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