(Akiit.com) The NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks issued the following statement regarding President Donald Trump’s Executive Order to repeal the Clean Power Plan. “The decision by President Donald Trump to rollback the hard fought progress made on clean air and clean energy is extremely disappointing and dangerous. We are ...
(Akiit.com) Anyone that’s ever suffered a serious injury or physical condition knows just how frustrating they can be. In many cases, we can adjust to the pain with time. The one thing that never gets easier, though, is the restrictions it puts on your life. This is especially true when trying ...
(Akiit.com) Most people have seen the recent advancements in self-driving cars. Indeed, we’ve all witnessed Google’s attempts to perfect the technology on the evening news. However, up until now, we’ve had no clue about the time we’d have to wait to find these products on the market. Well, that’s all changed ...
(Akiit.com) Alcohol, for better or worse, is a staple of western society. While most of us have had some great experiences that involved alcohol in some way, countless people lose their lives every year to drink driving. What’s so tragic about this issue is that it’s easily avoidable, and many people ...
(Akiit.com) So, you’re about to kit out your business’s new office, but how should you go about doing this? It can be difficult to get this right unless you think it through carefully. Unfortunately, there are some mistakes that get made very often by people who are taking on a task ...
(Akiit.com) Dr. Ben Carson, in a speech before employees of Housing and Urban Development, the department he now runs, likened slaves to “immigrants”: “That’s what America is about, a land of dreams and opportunity. There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, ...
(Akiit.com) Recently, as I waited to begin a healthcare town hall with my congressional colleagues, John Sarbanes and Dutch Ruppersberger, I was filled with gratitude for the neighbors who were filling the large meeting room to capacity on a Sunday afternoon. “These good people get it,” I thought to myself. ...
(Akiit.com) Getting into sports is a great way to keep fit and enjoy a healthy and active lifestyle. It also comes with the added bonus of socialising and making new friends. You can get to know people who have a similar mindset and the same passions. Maybe, after taking the family ...
(Akiit.com) We’re used to job market news being bad. For the last twenty years, ever since the Bill Clinton economy of the late 1990s, we’ve lived in a world where wages have essentially remained flat. One reason for this, of course, is increasing globalization. US workers now have to compete in ...
(Akiit.com) Back in 1998 I was assigned to the 1st Battalion (Air Assault), 377th Field Artillery Regiment at Ft. Bragg as the Executive Officer, second in command. The Battalion was nicknamed the “Gunslingers”, and my call sign was Gunslinger 5. Ours was a unique mission in that we were a ...