Some Helpful Links

Hello everyone. During today's class when everyone was doing the current events check-in, were you confused about a topic or two? Three or four topics? Perhaps all of them? Well, have no fear, I have found several links that should help you gain enough knowledge to easily answer those questions.

Also, in addition to the two links Ms. Blatteau gave us in our lesson plan (on bottom of post), I highly recommend using Google News as a way of finding out more information about current topics. All of the links to the answers of the questions below were found using that resource. I never knew until today how great of a news search engine it is, so I recommend checking it out!

1. What major issues was President Obama speaking about in Las Vegas this week?
http://www.voanews.com/content/obama_focuses_on_us_immigration_reform/1592944.html
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/01/30/immi-j30.html

2. What is going on with local New Haven politics?
http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/politics/destefano-wont-seek-reelection#.UQw4CKVZXSg
http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/new_haven_cty/candidates-to-replace-mayor-destefano#.UQw4xaVZXSg

3. In Connecticut, what is the topic of multiple public hearings that are happening in Hartford different parts of the state?
http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/politics/public-hearing-on-mental-health-issues#.UQw6LaVZXSg
http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Father-of-Newtown-victim-heckled-at-hearing-4228992.php

4. Who did the Senate confirm for Secretary of State? Whom did he replace?
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/01/opinion/brazile-hillary-clinton/index.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/01/hillary-clinton-resigns_n_2600344.html

5. Why is Chuck Hagel in the news?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/01/31/chuck-hagel-was-bad-and-it-doesnt-matter/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ken-blackwell/mr-president-chuck-hagel_b_2599752.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-hagel-confirmation-hearings-20130201,0,7189272.story

Links to Review (from lesson plan)
http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/

I hope everyone has a nice, productive weekend!