Thursday Thoughts from Ali

Instead of blogging on Sunday as I have been, I am once again getting it done early. Next week, I will be on vacation and Sunday we will be driving there so I am taking care of all my assignments early. This week, I'll be honest, the news of Trump's acquittal and all the snow and delayed vaccine clinics, has…

The GA Report: From Home Edition

Well, today makes 11 straight days in a row now that it has been below freezing. It's so so so cold out there. It hasn't stopped snowing for like three days straight. The roads are all ice. So, I get to work from home today! Yay for being able to work remotely. My dog likes it especially. Today, I primarily…

Sunday thoughts… (but on Friday!)

Hello lovely folks. This Sunday is Valentine's day and I plan on spending the day relaxing with my boyfriend. This means I am getting all my homework done early this week, including Sunday blog thoughts. To start, one of the first things I saw this week was Jacob's story about the 9-year-old who died from suspected COVID-19 complications. We had…

It’s the beginning of the Ice Age!

Okay not really, but I sure feel like it. It has been snowing and icy for far too many days in a row now. The newsroom was even more empty today than usual as everyone worked remotely to avoid the snow. The quiet was eerie to work to. It was a pretty slow day as well. I spent the majority…

A good vibes kind of Sunday

Or really a Friday. I'm going to blog my Sunday thoughts a little early this week. Sunday is the Superbowl so I am trying to get all my homework done before then so I can stress-free celebrate the Chief's win. So anyway, this week is full of local news and praise for my wonderful peers. I'll start with Charlie's front…

Working from Home

This morning I woke up feeling very ill, so I had to call in to my GA shift. I unfortunately have been having some medical issues that I thought I had mostly worked out, but I guess not. Even though I wasn't feeling well and couldn't come in to the newsroom, the one plus from all this pandemic stuff, is…

Rain, Rain, go away…

Man, it is icky outside! It has not stopped raining for like two days now. It has warmed up past freezing though so there is that at least. Despite my desire to stay in bed watching Netflix all day, I arrived at the newsroom bright and early for my GA shift. I was just in time to catch a couple…

Shoutout to my peers!

For this Sunday's thoughts, I want to share quite a bit of work done by students in this class or fellow peers. It is always so cool to see people I know succeeding in such amazing ways. I think we produced some good stuff this past week, and for it only being week two of the semester that's pretty cool.…

A Brief Wednesday

Hello and Welcome to the second week of the semester! Today, Wednesday the 27th, I had my second GA shift of the semester. It was a brief kind of day, as in I wrote three briefs. I first attended the Airport Advisory Meeting and wrote a brief about that. It was a pretty standard meeting where they said all the…

Sunday Thoughts

Well, we made it to the end of a historical week. New President and New Semester! This week, a couple articles really grabbed my attention. You'll notice they are primarily national news, but it was a big deal this week. Next week, we'll narrow in on some more local journalism. The first article for this week is a political piece…