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This 24-Year-Old Founder Wants To Keep A Billion More Cars Off The Road

by Boonsri Dickinson

During the summer of 2009 at the Singularity University, Google co-founderLarry Page challenged a class of 40 students to pick an idea that could impact a billion people.

One of the program’s students, Jessica Scorpio, thought that if she could get enough people to share their cars with their neighbors, she could reach a billion people around the world.

However, for this to work, Scorpio would need more than a business plan. People would [...]

PANDEMONIUM IN PEORIA: MOB YELLS ‘KILL ALL WHITE PEOPLE’

This eye-witness account is from Paul Wilkinson, president of the Altamont Park Neighborhood Association:

Tonight, around 11 p.m., a group of at least 60-70 African American youth marched down one of the side streets (W. Thrush) to the 4 lane main drag (Sheridan). They were yelling threats to white residents. Things such as we need to kill alll the white people around here. They were [...]