What The Mueller Investigation Means To You As A Bondurant Farrar Middle Schooler By Cooper Steeples On December 13th, 2018, Michael Dean Cohen was sentenced three years in prison for covering up and paying two women $100,000 each for hush money. He payed them under direction of individual one who is Trump to pay them and cover it up. Why were they paid? Answer: They had affairs with Trump so he paid them to not speak about it. Covering up a hush payment is illegal not a hush payment itself. Also, it was made leading up weeks to the election which made it a campaign deal not a civil deal. Trump's lawyers including Former Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani argues that it's a civil deal. If the news had came out before the election Trump might have lost.
There is a second reason why this investigation matters: Trump might have cheated in the election. What Russian Collusion means is that the Russian Government made bot accounts and spread fake news about Clinton or posed as Clinton Supporters (not in a good way) on social media sites like Facebook,Twitter, and Youtube. What Mueller has uncovered with multiple testimonies and cooperation with people like Michael Cohen and Michael Flynn are breaking Trump's credibility in politics. In this years elections there are suspicions over Russian Collusion. I am also going to list two unrelated reasons to the Mueller Investigation but this matters to his overall picture.He merged his reelection campaign with the Republican National Committee which gives almost zero room for any other Republicans to win the nomination besides him. You should spend 30 minutes of your time at home watching the news. Don't cry and say what about my Fortnite auughghggu! You have lots of other time to play it. I watch ABC World News with David Muir every night you should watch a news show you like for about 30 mins a day. You should go to CNN.Com go to site settings and turn on notifications and you will be updated with all of the latest world news.
Highway Park, Not a Good Idea! by Allison Halstead The city of Bondurant has put in blue swings by the highway. The swings are a bad idea for a couple of reasons. They are a safety hazard especially for young kids and for older kids. Also the money could be used in better ways. I don’t think anyone would take their young kids to that park and I don’t think I have seen anyone just sitting on those swings.They are a safety hazard. If someone took their little kid to that park they could look away for one second and then the next thing they know, their kid is right by the highway. They could also move those swings to a better place like the city park. These swings need to be not so close to a busy road. Also if someone is riding their bike a car could lose control and then they could get hit. The swings aren’t really in a convenient spot if someone wanted to go hang out there. They don’t really have a spot to park their car. The money could be used on better things like the school. The city of Bondurant probably paid a lot of money for these swings but we could use all of that money and split it evenly between the four schools. If they gave the money to the school they could buy more books or do more fun things for the kids. Also they could use the money for better things for the city than swings.
Disappearing Cosmos by Alison Keeler
I think the stars are amazing little beacons of light. I like to go out and just watch them, to try and see constellations. I even found one that looks like a giant wolf that’s easy to spot under the right conditions since one of its back legs contains Orion's Belt. I call it the Great Wolf. But I’ve noticed something; the stars are getting harder and harder to spot. The first time I saw the Great Wolf, I was out in a sort of country area, with almost no light pollution. It was easy to see the outline of the tail, head, and body, even to see smaller, more unique details like the eyes and the mouth. I can’t see these things from the deck in my backyard. I used to have a moderate visibility of the stars from there, but now I can hardly make out anything but the Belt. It’s so disappointing to me that light pollution is such a well-known thing, yet no one does anything about it. I can’t stop it, I know that much. I’m “just a kid”, no one would take me seriously on matters like this. Most people don’t even consider scientists as a valid perspective, even though they’re the ones with real, solid, scientific evidence that this is a problem. I guess everyone just doesn’t care. I want to do my part by not using lights at nighttime, but I already am. My family doesn’t keep lights on when we’re asleep. I just feel like I can do more, but I don’t know what, since talking to people about it ruled out because, like I already said, I’m “just a kid”, who’d take me seriously? I don’t know what else to do about this problem. It’s almost as if there’s no solution.