Identifying Local Opportunities

Prompt: find 5 local newspaper articles and analyze them on these 5 categories.
- Title of the article
- A link to the article
- Description of story
- Problem presented in the story
- Description of who has the problem

5 opportunities:

1.
- House built by Santa Fe College students delivered to Gainesville family.
- Link to Article
- Local students in the Construction Department of Santa Fe College delivered the house that they built as part of their program as a donation to habitat for humanity.
- The problem in the story is that families within the area still don't have a suitable place to live. Santa Fe College has decided to tackle that problem head on by building and donating homes as part of charity and education.

2.
- At Tampa Bay farm-to-table restaurants, you’re being fed fiction.
- Link to Article
- In Florida, the fresh restaurants as well as farm-to-table eateries make bold and false claims to freshness and locality.
- Farm-to-table and high class restaurants are making false claims and fooling customers.
- Consumers are being tricked into overpaying for non-fresh and not local foods.

3.
- How riding your bike can land you in trouble with the cops — if you're black.
- Link to Article
- Tampa PD is targeting minorities with unnecessary bike citations and fines disguised as a prevention method for curbing bike theft
- Tampa PD is fining citizens excessively for minor infractions, more than the other major cities in FL combined.
- Minorities and people who ride bikes around town are falling victim to unfair ticketing.

4.
- District leaders turned five once-average schools into Failure Factories.
- Link to Article
- Part of the election campaign for Pinellas Co. officials involved the undoing of school integration with the promise of increased funding and staff for lower income schools.
- Pinellas County officials severely hurt the local education program.
- Local citizens are fed up with low quality schooling.

5.
- A Tampa Bay home inspector shares tales of critter encounters and what he's found in the attic.
- Link to Article
- Local home inspectors find unsettling damage and critters too common in homes.
- Homeowners are bamboozled by the inadequacies and hazards that they would've otherwise been unable to find.
- Prospective home buyers are effected by the properties that end up as surprisingly low quality lemons and are hit with surprise expenses they would've otherwise been able to avoid with a home inspector.