Identifying local opportunities (assignment 5A)

The local newspaper I am using is the Palm Beach Post which is a local news station for Palm Beach County.
1st Story:

• "Elementaries Feel Pinch of Teacher Shortage" 
• https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&t=pubname%3APBPB%21Palm%2BBeach%2BPost%252C%2BThe%2B%2528FL%2529/year%3A2019%212019/mody%3A0120%21January%2B20&f=advanced&action=browse&format=text&docref=news/171126026EB8B180
• This article delves into the problems that Palm Beach County is having due to the shortage of teachers in their public school system, specifically focusing on elementary schools. They go on to explain how this problem is occurring due to the lower salaries teachers are recieving, as well as the ill-equipped classrooms they do get which makes their jobs harder to do from the start. The article talks about how Miami-Dade and Hillsborogh Counties (just outside of Palm Beach County) are having the worst shortage with 468 and 224 un-filled spots, respectively. They also go on to explain that Palm Beach County relies heavily on Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton to shoot out teachers from their program, but that even these numbers are dropping every year. 
• The problem presented in the story is that Florida, specifically Palm Beach County, is having an extreme shortage of teachers and that this is causing many un-filled positions to appear. In turn, students are being coralled into larger classrooms and substitute teachers are filling the positions, and in the end, this is hurting the students, as explained by the article
• Again, the teachers, students, parents, and administation all have the problem in this case as this shortage of teachers hurts all of them. It hurts the teachers because some have to work harder to fill the void, and it also hurts them because year after year the salary of a teacher is going down so there is no incentive to work hard. It hurts the children because they are receiving a worse and worse education, and their futures will be severely hurt due of this. Also, it hurts the parents of the students as they will have to pay and care for their children longer in their life if they receive a poor education. And finally, it hurts the administration of the schools as their jobs become harder while trying to fill their schools; and their reputations are being hurt if the students at their schools are not getting a proper education. 

2nd Story: 

• "Trio of Palm Beach County Restaurants Shut Down Temporarily"
• https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0D0CB57BE7FF6D8A&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews%252F17107C783069E008
• This article discusses the couple restaurants that were shut down temporarily due to their failure in passing various health inspections. The three that were shut down are Peking Place, Pizza Corner, and Aloha Dogs all due to their violation of over 5 health inspection topics ranging from no soap or hot water, to dead and alive roaches all throughout the kitchen. They explain that even though these restaurants were closed for a couple days, that the rules were still broken and to just be aware of some health risks in the area, as well as informing the public with needed data.
• As described in the article, the problem is the lack of awareness, and the lack of cleanliness of some restaurants in the area, as well as the potential health risks that the community was subject to during that time. The author was highlighting the health risks that the restuarants had, listing exactly what the problems were and how they were discovered. 
• As far as who has the problem, I would say that both the local community and the restaurant owners themselves had the problem in this scenario. The local community had the problem because if they ate at any of those locations, they could've been subject to food-borne illnesses which would cause harm to them physically, but also financially with medical bills. The restaurant owners have the problem as well as they lost profit during those couple days being close, as well as gaining bad publicity and a bad perspective of their restaurant by the public. 

3rd Story: 

• "'Its a Struggle' says TSA Employee of Work Without Pay During Shutdown"
• https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0D0CB57BE7FF6D8A&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews%252F1712226F85A1F888
• This article discussed the effects of the recent government shutdown on employees of the government in Palm Beach County, and the struggles that it is causing. They talked about some personal cases of TSA employees at the Palm Beach International Airport that could not pay for Child Care, their mortgages, and in some cases, not even gas and groceries. Some employees only get paid somewhere from $30,000-50,000, and without their bi-weekly checks, they are struggling to provide for themsevles and their families. 
• The problem presented in the story is the fact that these government employees are working without pay, and due to this they are not being able to provide for themselves or their families. This problem is due to the government shutdown, in which a government worker's pay is halted  until the shutdown ends, but it will be retracted back to when the shutdown began. 
• The people that have the problem, however, are government employees of course, but also the government, society, and the families of those employees that are relying on their partners to provide for them. The shutdown hurts the goverment as with it, they now have to pay a larger sum of money at the end of the shutdown, but during that time, some workers will not have even attended their jobs, therefore, the government is paying them for the work they didn't do. It also creates social unrest and backlash when the government is shutdown and employees are not getting paid because it is a sign to them that the government is not working well together, and that there are problems there which no one likes to hear. 

4th Story: 

• "City Ditches Plan for Bike Lanes on Swinton Ave." 
• https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0D0CB57BE7FF6D8A&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews%252F171276C6D2D45BB8
• This article explains how Delray Beach's Vice Mayor, Adam Frankel changed year-long plans of creating bike lanes down historic Swinton Avenue. The plan was to put 2.6 million dollars into the contruction of bike lanes on the avenue, but that with this over 100 old trees would be cut down in the process. The article also discusses the large discussions over this project with members of society, and how there were large groups fighting for both sides of the debate. 
• The problem in this story is the debate over whether or not to create bike lanes on Swinton Avenue in Delray Beach, Florida, and with this, what part of the local community will be upset and/or happy. With bike lanes, the environment would be cleaner with less air pollution from burning fossil fuels while also creating a more connected community amongst the people who live there. With no bike lanes, some members of the community will be pleased with the fact that they saved the old, beautiful trees and that Swinton's history will be preserved. 
• As far as who has the problem, I think that the people that were dissatisfied owned most of the problems because with either decision there were many opportunity costs for one side or the other. With bike lanes, bikers would be happy; and without the bike lanes, environmentalists and nature people would be more happy. 

5th Story: 

• "Parking at DuBois Park will no longer be free - Visitors to waterfront park in Jupiter will now have to pay a flat fee on weekends and holidays"
• https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0D0CB57BE7FF6D8A&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews%252F170F7F434F7273D8
• This article is discusses the new fee charged at DuBois Park in Jupiter, Florida on holidays and the weekends. Due to the larger influx of people coming to the park, the local government voted to charge a $10 fee for local residents, and a $20 fee for non-residents, not for the revenue, but for crowd control. They discussed how the once free-parking at DuBois Park was something that everyone took advantage of, and because of it, the park was always overcrowded and not as enjoyable as it once was. They also explained how this is an uncommon thing for Jupiters Park Services to do, but because of DuBois' popularity, it was seen as necessary. 
• The problem in this article was the overcrowding of DuBois Park, and the way these crowds made the park look and sound. The parking fee is not the problem here, it is the solution to the problem the city had with a popular park. 
• The people that have the problem in this situation are the residents and non-residents of Jupiter as they are the ones that have a new fee to pay on something that once wasn't charged for. Now, local residents cannot just go casually to the park unless they can financially give up $10 every time they want to simply go see the ocean and mangroves. The same problem goes to non-residents, as it may dissuade them to go see the park.