Interview Story Josh Gloe

Josh Gloe may only be a student in high school, but his drive to succeed, and his ambition would make you think otherwise. Gloe is a PSEO student attending classes at the Coon Rapids campus of Anoka-Ramsey Community College. At the current moment Gloe says he would like to attend Bemidji State University and double-major in marketing and mass communications. “I have always been interested in the mass media and recently have been interested in marketing as well,” says Gloe. When he isn’t attending classes or getting his school work done, Gloe enjoys hanging with friends, and listening to music.

Gloe sounds like the average 17-year-old high school student working hard to get off to college, where is the ambition you ask? Gloe devotes a lot of his time to graphic design and working on his website he created called “Project:Informed,” a forum website where members can have debates and discussions about any topic they chose. Members can post messages and even make their own profiles. When asked how he got into graphic design Gloe said, “My dad is a graphic designer, so he was obviously a big inspiration for me to give graphic design a try.” Gloe created the website a few months ago and has already begun to see much success. He currently has 30 members on his site and gets hundreds of guests each day. Project:Informed was even featured on the website “Proboards,” another forum website that has millions of users. “This increased our traffic dramatically,” said Gloe. With the relatively quick success of his website, Gloe hopes of one day turning Project:Informed into an online business and begin pursuing his dream as an entrepreneur.

To add to the list of activities Gloe partakes in, he’s also a featured writer on “Twinsmix.com,” a forum website for the Minnesota Twins. Gloe considers himself a big Twins fan, and saw the ad for the writing spot on Craigslist. He submitted a sample article to the website and soon after, they offered him the feature writer spot. He can now write articles on the site whenever he feels. “It is a good way to build up my resume,” says Gloe.

Missing Boy Found Ok

A boy that had been missing for over 20 hours was found unharmed and in good condition today in Richfield. The 10-year-old boy was last seen around 6:30 p.m. Monday evening near Chicago Ave. in South Minneapolis and was never reported missing under suspicious circumstances. The boy did have underlying health issues and had no winter coat, so it was definitely a cause for concern.

Man's Life Worth $130

The North Point Inn was the scene of a robbery and a brutal murder yesterday morning just minutes before 9 A.M. Kevin Blohm, a cook at the restaurant, suffered two stab wounds, one to his hand, and a large wound to his chest ending his life.

Nina Cortez, the restaurants bookkeeper, began getting the restaurant ready for the day’s lunch rush along with Blohm. She began counting the previous day’s revenue in her office when she saw a man walk around the corner carrying a knife. When asked what happened next Cortez said, “I started screaming and kicking. My chair was on rollers, and when I started kicking, it fell. I fell on the floor, and he reached across my desk and grabbed $130 in $5 bills.” According to Cortez the man had an accomplice. “I heard a man say, “Get that money out of there.” Then someone tried to open the door to my office, but I’d locked it. Three or Four minutes later, the police were there.”

After the events took place in Cortez’s office and the man took off, Cortez and the police walked into the hallway where they found Blohm. “It was awful,” Cortez said. “There was blood on the walls and floor. Kevin was lying on the floor, dead.” When asked if she had any idea why the man had stabbed Mr. Blohm , Cortez responded, “Kevin might have gotten in his way or tried to stop him or recognized him or something. I don’t know. I didn’t see it, I don’t know anything else.”

Cortez described the man to be around 6 feet tall, in his early 20s, medium built. He was wearing blue jeans, a blue plaid button-up shirt, and blue tennis shoes. Police are currently investigating and looking for the two suspects.

Shots Ring Out At A School Near Columbine

A school just a few miles from Columbine High School rang out in a number of gunshots today as two students were shot but are expected to survive, authorities said. A student said he was about 10 feet away when the gunman asked the two students if they attended this school, when they replied "yes", he shot them. Authorities have not released the names of the students and believe the gunman has no connection to the school.

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Obituary

Kyle Lovin, a very well-known sports journalist in the city of Chicago, died of natural causes yesterday. He was 72. "He died doing what he loved to do," said his wife Ariana Jaime. "He never missed a story, or a game." The night prior to Kyle's death, the team he produced sports columns for, the Chicago Cubs, ended there 173 year drought by finally winning the World Series. "I'm so thankful that he got to see the team he was so passionate about for his whole life win baseball's greatest game," said his sister Kendra Lovin.

Kyle grew up in the small town of North Branch, Minn. with his parents Bob and Kelly Lovin. He was very outgoing as a child, and loved to make everyone laugh. Throughout his school years, his passion for sports drove him to make a career out of it. He graduated high school in North Branch and moved to Blaine, Minn. where he began taking journalism classes at Anoka Ramsey Community College.

He met his wife Ariana soon after and they lived together with his father. Kyle then attended the University of Minnesota where he majored in Journalism and soon after his graduation was offered a job by the Chicago Tribune as a sports writer. Kyle is survived by his wife Ariana, his two children Conzeula and Hector, and his Sister Kendra. The funeral will be held from 1 PM - 6 PM at Weber-Hurd Funeral Home in Chilicothie, Ill.

College Student's Body Found In Mississippi

LA CROSSE, WIS.-- A body pulled from the Mississippi River is that of a 21-year-old Western Technical college student who had been missing for days, La Crosse authorities reported. The student was said to had been at a wedding the night prior to his disappearance.

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Budget Issues Quickly Become Immigration Debate

“You’re putting the lives of the people of this county in jeopardy,” said Anoka County Sheriff Gus Dicesari as his request to increase the sheriff’s department’s budget was denied Tuesday by county commissioners. Dicesari accused the commissioners of “shortchanging” the sheriff’s department to save money. Dicesari requested a budget increase that would allow him to provide his department with eight new police cruisers and five additional deputies costing approximately $580,000. Sheriff Dicesari went on to say, “It is getting too costly to maintain the older vehicles and they spend too much time in the repair shop. You commissioners eliminated the equipment budgets for my department this year and now I can’t buy anything. This is the first time in my 27 years as sheriff that the county hasn’t’ allocated money to the sheriff’s department to buy equipment.”

Commission President Anne Chen however disagreed saying that “the county does not have the money to buy new police cruisers and five new sheriff’s deputies.” Chen went on to say that the county already spent $30 million of the $127 million budget to build a new prison to help with the overcrowding and the increased cost of fuel and healthcare had already tapped in to the budget.

The debate heated up intensely when Dicesari supporters Anita Shenuski and Raymond Laybourne began to blame the budget issues on immigration and stated Anoka County should spend more money on the sheriff’s department and law enforcement than programs for migrant workers who come to Anoka County to work. “We never had these problems until we started letting migrants come to this county to work,” Shenuski said. “They take away jobs from decent people and work for next to nothing, we need to protect our people from them.”

Chen quickly denied that immigration was the real issue. “Those people who come here to work are decent, hardworking people being employed at jobs that local residents don’t want to do. They add a great deal to the local economy and they pay taxes. You are being a hypocrite when you try to blame those people for everything.”

As the arguing and intense debating quieted Chen told Sheriff Dicesari that he would have to make do this year with what they had. County commissioners voted 5-2 against the sheriff’s much demanded request.