August 20, 2025

The New Citizens Press

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Excuse me, are you listening? 11-20

Rina Risper010 mins

Dear Readers,
 
This is Part II of II.  Please log on to www.tncp.net for the last edition.  
 
When we went in the building we were given a gate manifest form and we listed what we were bringing in with us; a note pad, two pens and five sheets of paper. It was 1:13 p.m. and we stayed in the waiting room until they called us to go through the gates.  The metal door clanged behind us.

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Building your vision one brick at a time

Rina Risper06 mins

Go to the ant … consider its ways and be wise. It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. (Proverbs 6:6-8)

 

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Can Profanity Help Your Career?

Rina Risper07 mins

By Robert Pagliarini, 
Tribune Media Services
 
Can profanity help your career? What about raising your voice or slamming down your phone? Most of us do our best to fit in at the office and keep our emotions in check, but could swearing, getting angry and making a scene actually help you keep your job, or even get promoted? If done correctly, I think they could.

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“Inside the Mind of a Sportsaholic” – Can One Be Objective In A Rivalry

Rina Risper07 mins

By Jimmy L. Wilson, Jr.
 
Come with me on a trip down Imaginary Lane. How difficult it would have been for the leader of the Hatfields to write an objective piece about the McCoys?

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Mending Heart: Young Woman Walks for “His Heart, Her Life”

Rina Risper08 mins

“I am still so in love with him. Cameron was such an amazing man. He was all about giving back and was a jack-of-all-trades. I will do what it takes to keep his name alive.” – Chastity Sayre

 

LANSING, MI -She cried while at a recent meeting with the American Heart Association. She told the story of how she met Cameron “Big Perm” Doyle.  She, Chastity Sayre, had been dating Big Perm who was a local rapper for 5 years, when he died at age 34 on June 2, 2012.

 

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Korean Rapper’s Gangnam Song Big Hit

Rina Risper017 mins

By Andrew Lam
New America Media
 
Anthropologists and linguists no doubt are having a field day trying to chronicle and dissect how, in the early autumn of 2012, “Gangnam Style” became an American idiomatic expression. It stands for something along the lines of a brash, flamboyant way of doing things, clownishness, or an act of in-your-face spoofing that is both original and entertaining.

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Movie Reviews: Celebrity Interviews: Six Questions With Kwesi Boakye

Rina Risper07 mins

Photos Courtesy
Adrian J Photography

 
By Samantha Ofole-Prince
 
Who? He’s a talented 13-year old actor who has starred in a slew of films and television shows. He voices the character of Darwin on “The Amazing World of Gumball” which airs on the cable channel The Cartoon Network.

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Confessions of a Nonprofit Professional

Rina Risper07 mins

By Rick Garcia
 
One warm summer afternoon as I was handing out information packets in our Eaton County United Way “booth” at a community fair, I was approached by a gentleman who confronted me how disappointed he was that his donations were going to pay the “Executives” salaries and not services that we do fund.

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Local high school computer science program launches

Rina Risper03 mins

EAST LANSING, MI —Students in the greater Lansing region now have the opportunity to participate in a new computer science program, Computer Science Academy, developed by the Capital Area Career Center/ Ingham ISD in partnership with Michigan State University Federal Credit Union (MSUFCU) and the Capital Area IT Council.

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