Some inspiring stories about extraordinary people.
Blues legend B.B. King “passed peacefully in his sleep at 9:40 pm Pacific time May 14 2015” according to the official B.B. King website. Mr. King was 89 years old. His daughter, Patty King, told CNN he died in Las Vegas where he had been receiving home hospice care after suffering from dehydration. As CNN […]
With the upcoming election and the daily routine of life, it is all too easy to forget the recent cost of our foreign wars and the seemingly ever-present possibility of war. Moreover, all too often we forget to consider the cost of war – the tragic loss of human lives and the sorrow it leaves […]
“Even when I’m sleeping, I still feel that pain. The pain is like somewhere inside my head and I can always know it’s there. It’s always pushing me to my limits and it’s always pushing me past my limits.”1 ~ Jonathan Pitre TSN: People with your condition, they call them Butterfly Children. Why do they […]
A Seattle entrepreneur announced on Monday that he was raising the minimum salary at his company to $70,000 and reducing his own pay to the same amount from the current level of about $1 million. Dan Price, the founder of Gravity Payments, told the CBS Evening News that he was inspired by a Princeton University […]
9-year-old Sydney Smoot, a fourth grader at Brooksville Elementary, shared her concerns on testing in schools with members of the Hernando County School Board at their regular meeting on March 17, 2015. Speaking of the Florida Standards Assessment Test, or FSA for short, Sydney told the school board that: This testing looks at me as […]