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Arizona on the Brink of Its Fourth National Park as Senate Unanimously Passes Chiricahua Redesignation
Arizona is poised to make history as the Senate has passed the Chiricahua National Park Act by unanimous consent, a rare display of bipartisan agreement that clears a major legislative hurdle for the region’s conservation efforts. The years-long campaign to redesignate the Chiricahua National Monument as a full-fledged national park now heads to President Donald Trump’s desk for final approval. If signed into law, the legislation will officially establish Chiricahua as Arizona’s fourth national park, joining the ranks of the Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest, and Saguaro, and will become the 64th national park in the United States.
By Mark Lim about 22 hours ago in Journal
Tariffs, Conflict, and Uncertainty: Ohio Businesses Bear the Cost of Trump’s Economic Policies
For Doug Rende, running an aluminum products manufacturing business in North Jackson, Ohio, the math has become painfully simple. Since Donald Trump returned to the presidency in January 2025, tariffs on aluminum have risen in stages from 10% during his first term to 25%, and then to 50% last year. The result? This year alone, his company, Shapes Unlimited , faces additional costs of US$4.5 million to US$5 million. “Frustrating would be one word,” Rende told AFP. And it is not just the expense; it is the uncertainty, the shifting rules, and a growing sense that the checks and balances of government are falling away. “We’re sensing a lack of trust not only the administration but in the governmental process, the role of Congress to rein in executive power,” he said. As midterm elections approach, stories like his are echoing across the industrial heartland, reshaping how voters see trade, leadership, and America’s place in the world.
By Mark Lim 4 days ago in Journal
Why Your Leadership Tactics Are Failing You
Written by a human, for humans, always. Have you been trying to be successful as a leader... Reading all the books... Listening to all the podcasts...
By H.E. Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, COIE, DFM, DHM4 days ago in Journal
If Money Were Not An Issue....
We spend a staggering amount of our lives caught in the morass of practicality. Between paying bills, managing schedules, and keeping up with the endless demands of modern living, our deepest desires often get packed away into a box labeled “someday.” We often convince ourselves that dreaming is an unproductive luxury - something reserved for daydreamers who haven't looked at a bank statement lately.
By Elaine Sihera 9 days ago in Journal
Survival at Stake: Ukraine’s Deepening Economic and Fiscal Crisis
Kryvyi Rih, the sprawling industrial hometown of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, once thrived as one of Ukraine’s economic heartlands. Today, it stands as a symbol of the country’s widening crisis. Russian missile strikes have fallen repeatedly on ArcelorMittal’s massive mining and steel complex, the city’s largest employer, forcing operations to a halt. Furnaces that burned day and night for decades are cold; trains that carried ore and steel no longer run. Mayor Oleksandr Vilkul does not mince words: “The situation is actually worse than anywhere else, apart from the front line itself.” For its six hundred thousand residents, and for the nation as a whole, the challenge is no longer just winning; it is surviving.
By Mark Lim 10 days ago in Journal
Leading the Race: Trump Establishes "Super Intelligence Force" to Steer U.S. AI Strategy
President Donald Trump has formally announced the creation of the Super Intelligence Force , a new federal task force charged with coordinating America’s strategy for advanced artificial intelligence. The initiative builds on earlier commitments to form an "AI Force" and marks a broader shift in how the administration frames, organises, and governs the technology it describes as more transformative than the Industrial Revolution or the internet.
By Mark Lim 11 days ago in Journal
Beyond the NDA: Amazon Pledges Openness as Data Center Backlash Grows
The battle over data centers, their environmental footprint, their cost to communities, and the secrecy that has surrounded their approval has moved into the open. Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman has announced the company will no longer use nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) with government agencies when seeking approval to build new facilities. The pledge comes amid mounting public pushback, moratoriums in key states, and deep mistrust of how these massive projects are planned, reviewed, and approved. Garman has laid out his case, but critics say the numbers do not tell the whole story.
By Mark Lim 11 days ago in Journal
Privacy vs. Public Safety: The Flock Safety Debate and the Push to Ban Federal Use of License Plate Surveillance
A national reckoning over automated license plate recognition (ALPR) technology has reached the halls of Congress. On Friday, Senator Bernie Sanders introduced the Ban Flock Act legislation that would bar federal agencies from using automated license plate readers or tapping into data collected by local police departments and private vendors. Though titled for the industry leader, the bill applies broadly to all such systems, marking the most significant federal challenge yet to a surveillance network that has spread rapidly across the United States.
By Mark Lim 11 days ago in Journal
What District Of Columbia Did..!
Games Of The Court, is a 132-page non-fiction paperback that stems directly from my real-world legal action, Case No. 1:25-cv-00079-RC (Seale v. DowntownDC Foundation). I filed that case in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in January 2025. It chronicles my personal experience working as a Safety Maintenance Ambassador for the DowntownDC BID / Foundation before the company unjustly terminated my employment. After filing this case in the federal court, I formally reached out to President Donald Trump with this information to request for him to complete a investigation on that company and take executive action against them. I requested that he publish a General Statement with the National Park Service's yearly budget manual. Although there may not be enough power with just myself to see a greater organization manage the cleanliness and activities of Franklin Park right away, I believed that the National Park Service might have wanted to place the DowntownDC BID / Foundation under investigation based on the allegations of the discrimination and discrepancies they have created. I specifically, in typed letters, communicated to President Trump that he should think highly about speaking with both the National Park Service and Google to get their recommendations on new technological advances and projects for the District of Columbia's DowntownDC BID. Some people just might see this book to be somewhat of a placemaker for the future policy or direction of that specific part of the District Of Columbia’s Business Improvement District in the future.
By Gabriel Seale11 days ago in Journal
Confession Is Not a Performance
Confession is not a performance. It is not a speech you rehearse so the priest will be impressed. It is not a therapy session with a stole. It is the sacrament in which a baptized person names their sins out loud to a priest and receives absolution. The Church has kept this practice because it does what private regret cannot do. It restores the soul. That is why ordinary Catholics still get in the line, even when the line is short and the hour is inconvenient.
By Overdrive Records13 days ago in Journal
The Mass Is Not a Meeting
The Mass is not a meeting. It is not a weekly gathering where Catholics share thoughts and then go home. It is not a lecture with better music. The Mass is the sacrifice of Christ made present. The Eucharist is the Body and Blood of the Lord. That is why ordinary Catholics, including those who grew up with cassette decks and parish basements, still come back for it. They are not there for the bulletin. They are there because something happens that does not happen anywhere else.
By Overdrive Records13 days ago in Journal
The Saints Are Not Museum Pieces
The saints are not museum pieces. They are not statues you walk past on the way to a better exhibit. They are not names on a calendar that exist to fill empty dates. They are men and women who lived, died, and now stand before God. The Church keeps their memory because their lives still argue with the way we live. Most of the time the argument is simple. They did the ordinary things we avoid. They did them long enough to become holy. That is why ordinary Catholics still learn their names and still ask them to pray.
By Overdrive Records13 days ago in Journal