Annika's Current Events Blog

In New York, there has recently been a ban on plastic bags, but using paper bags from a store will still cost you five cents by next year. When the state lawmakers approved the ban on plastic carry-out bags it helped to end the “paper or plastic?” dilemma. The state lawmakers gave an option whether to charge for the paper alternative or not. They voted on it and there is a nickel fee on the paper carry-out bag. It was approved less than a month after New York became the second state to ban most plastic bags and the ban was signed on Earth day. Environmentalists like the movement of banning plastic but think that the paper alternatives will exchange one form of waste to another. I think banning plastic bags is a great idea to reduce plastic waste and with more decomposable paper bags. Although one form of waste is going to the other. Instead of plastic waste, we will have paper waste. I think the fee on the paper bags will help in the change. It would be so much easier to buy reusab

Sri Lanka had devastating suicide bombings the days leading up to Easter Sunday. The bombings killed at least 321 people. Security agencies had been watching the National Thoweeth Jama’ath. The National Thoweeth Jama’ath was a little-known radical Islamist organization that security officials say carried out the act of the suicide bombings. They had known that this was a dangerous group and had warned of Catholic church bombings. They had known about radical Islamist that was possibly tied to the group with stockpiled weapons and detonators back in January. An enormous question is why the security agencies failed to act upon the information before the bombings. This question has led to a feud between the prime minister and president. A history of fighting between leaders has led to security breakdowns that led to one of the worlds deadliest terrorist attacks. Many people have lashed out on President Maithripala Sirisena for not taking action on the warnings before the attacks. This

The president is very involved and uses twitter a lot. It seems to be a valued form of communication for him. Twitter is becoming a place for public officials to make statements, activists to pressure others, and reporters to give the latest news. This is very unrepresentative of America. This whole Twitter craze with politics may even affect the 2020 race. “The views of Democrats on social media often bear little resemblance to those of the wider Democratic electorate,” as said by Nate Cohn and Kevin Quealy. “The outspoken group of Democratic-leaning voters on social media is outnumbered, roughly 2 to 1, by the more moderate, more diverse and less educated group of Democrats who typically don’t post political content online.” Social media has influenced many things in today's society some of which have actually benefitted us. Social media is not a place for things that apply and are important to politics. Reports of it, however, are okay. When the president posts something th