The Current Online

The Current won the following awards from the Missouri College Media Association for 2009 publications at two-year colleges: [...]

by Rick Wirt

Our livelihood, liberty, and national identity may be in jeopardy if we don’t act soon. This is the warning of two-time presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (TX-14) in his latest book, “End the Fed.” Paul cites the inflationary actions of the Federal Reserve Bank as the source for our present economic recession and predicts things are going to get much worse. [...]

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by Rick Wirt

The film Paranormal Activity plunges its viewers into a plethora of emotional activity. The audience will be filled with hostility, disappointment, regret, illness and fatigue. [...]

by Rick Wirt
Missouri College Media Award: Third Place, Feature Writing

Photo courtesy of Chris Vedder

Life for military parents in Missouri just got easier, thanks in part to the efforts of Longview student Chris Vedder. 

National Guard Spc. Chris Vedder received a special honor for helping Missouri legislators protect the parental rights of soldiers. Vedder recieved the junior enlisted award for “Soldier of the Year” at the National Guard’s 35^th infantry division annual reunion in Topeka, Kansas. In October, he was also a finalist for “Soldier of the Year” in the 2009 Army Times Publishing Company, one of the militaries largest publications. [...]