Current Event Quiz # 3

1. The Pope said that the U.S. should use its power to help heal a broken planet. The speech was delivered to Congress. The story says tens of thousands of people were invited to watch on a jumbo screen at the Capitol. He is the first pope to give a speech to a joint meeting of Congress. House Speaker, John Boehner invited him to come.

2. There are a lot of different opinions about whether the official used racial slurs. Mack Breed has resigned and the two players will attend an alternative school until Jan. 15. Mike Motheral, the chairman of the committee, was upset about the official, players, and coach Mack Breed not being at the hearing.

3. The students and teachers were mad about the school district moving teachers around. Teachers were moved to comply with class size. It hurt Maplewood's sixth grade because one teacher now must teach a class of almost 30 students, all at different learning levels. In a similar protest at Bryker Woods, a teacher who was going to be moved was allowed to stay.

4. John Whitmire asked the attorney general for his opinion on whether the state's open carry law will allow holstered firearms on school properties. Whitmire thinks that the law will not allow openly carried guns on school properties, but you could interpret it so that they are allowed n parking lots, sidewalks, and driveways. The attorney general has 180 days to respond, but it might not matter because the open carry law will allow those with a license to carry weapons.

5. There was a memorial service for Daniel Hampton, a Burnet paramedic and firefighter, on Thursday. He died on September 18. I think the story was covered well. It was short and sad and had lots of quotes from people that knew him.

6. Obituaries are made up of lots of memories and a kind of run down of the person's life. You can only find a summary of a person's life in an obituary. I think that one of these would take a lot of research, but not much in the way of getting quotes. It would be fun.