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YOU DECIDE: Should communities leveled by hurricanes be rebuilt in the same place?

June 10, 2022 btwuser 0

It’s summer, and that means the start of hurricane season. Due to the effects of climate change, the United States faces more deadly hurricanes every […]

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YOU DECIDE: Should Student Debt Be Forgiven?

May 20, 2022 btwuser 0

College is expensive. More than 43 million Americans (one out of every eight people) is responsible for some student loan debt. President Trump paused federal […]

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YOU DECIDE: Should Ohio Postpone its Primary Elections?

April 22, 2022 btwuser 0

Every ten years, state legislatures must evaluate the census population data to see if their state’s congressional district maps must be changed. Information about population […]

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YOU DECIDE: Should Members of Congress Be Allowed to Trade Stock?

February 9, 2022 btwuser 0

In April 2012, Congress passed the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act by a large majority of both Republicans and Democrats. The STOCK Act […]

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YOU DECIDE: Cars That Stop Drunk Driving?

December 9, 2021 btwuser 0

When Congress passed President Biden’s infrastructure package last month, it included a demand for U.S. automakers: find a way to stop drunk people from driving […]

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YOU DECIDE: Civilian Space Travel

October 21, 2021 btwuser 0

In September 2021, four people–a CEO, a physician assistant, an aerospace data engineer, and a pilot/geoscientist–became the first all-civilian crew to orbit Earth on a […]

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YOU DECIDE: School Social Media Free Speech Case

July 14, 2021 btwuser 0

As a student, what are you allowed to say–and not allowed to say–on social media? That’s the question at the heart of a recent Supreme […]

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YOU DECIDE: Should Daylight Savings Time Become Permanent?

May 26, 2021 btwuser 0

Spring forward, fall back . . . or is it the other way around? Daylight Savings Time  was first developed in the early 1900s to […]

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YOU DECIDE: D.C. Statehood

April 6, 2021 btwuser 0

The District of Columbia, the capital of the United States, is not a state. At the time of the country’s formation, not enough people lived […]

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YOU DECIDE: Raising the Minimum Wage

February 23, 2021 btwuser 0

Currently, the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. It can be difficult to survive on that amount of money, even for full-time workers. This […]

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