Identifying Local Opportunities

Hoarding disorder increases anxiety
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Story: A wife married to her husband for four years is considering leaving her husband since he has growing hoarding tendencies and is now refusing to get rid of old things or renovate his mother's old house. The wife is concerned about her husband but at the same time was told by the husband that if she doesn't like his hoarding tendencies that she can just leave.
Problem: The problem is the hoarding tendencies of the husband and the effect that this has on the people around him. The hoarding causes him to be unable to get rid or change things of the past since he feels like he is losing something very valuable to him even if others may see the object as simple trash.
Who: The husband has the hoarding problem but this causes a problem for the neighbors and his wife. His refusal to get rid of trash makes his wife uncomfortable in her own home and his refusal to speak to a contractor about fixing or renovating the house is causing a problem for the neighbors in the housing market.

Jurors were bullied into convicting cop, letter says
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Story: A jury member came forward explaining that he along with other members of his jury were bullied into a guilty verdict by other members of the jury. The juror explains how even with no evidence that the jury came to a guilty conclusion because members of the jury had an ill will towards police officers and some felt that someone had to pay for the injustices done. The police officer had been tried before but there was no evidence that anything he had done in this case had been wrong according to the testifying juror and they are currently hoping for more members of the jury to step forward and agree that there was bullying going on.
Problem: The problem is that members of a jury were bullied into making a verdict that they did not necessarily agree with or even have a reason for making other than preconceived notions going into the case. 
Who: The police officer and other people who may have been falsely accused are the victims of this problem. Jury members bullying each other removes the fact that the verdict is supposed to be determined based upon evidence rather than preconceived notions.

Toys R Us to close three South Florida stores
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Story: Toys R Us is closing three of its South Florida stores due to it facing severe financial problems. The competition from other brick and mortar stores along with online realtors such as Amazon has caused Toys R Us to lack in profits and has the forced closing of some of it stores. Toys R Us will try and keep some of these stores open if they can negotiate cheaper leasing options although this seems very unlikely. Approximately 25 employees work at each individual Toys R Us store. 
Problem: Over 25 employees will be losing their job per store along with Toys R Us leaving the market and toy industry in the areas that it is being forced to close down.
Who: The employees along with Toys R Us have the problem of not making enough profit causing Toys R Us to have to let go of some of it stores along with that stores employees. The employees will now be jobless and in today's job market that is not a good position to be in.

After holiday excess, 3 slim dishes
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Story: The article talks about all the extra pounds that most people pack on after the holiday season which now causes many people to start the new year with an unhappy look on their face after standing on a scale. The problem is that after those big meals your body is looking for something substantial to eat and that would cause only even more numbers to be added to the weight scale. Three recipes are introduced to help the everyday person cut back on that extra turkey fat and to help weed out those nasty holiday pounds from the body.
Problem: The problem is that a number of people pack on extra pounds after the holiday season and that many of those people are looking for a way to lose those recently gained pounds.
Who: This affects almost everyone who eats a lot during the holidays. These people are the ones packing on the extra pounds and looking for a way to burn off the unwanted holiday calories from their bodies.

Opioid bill advances in House despite some doctors' worries
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Story: A bill was recently passed by the House that is designed to halt the opioid epidemic that has started to plague South Florida. Some doctors disagree with the bill as they find it impractical to limit the length of some patients' prescriptions. Putting a strict number day limit in an effort to stop the growing costs and deaths caused by opioid addiction also comes with a draw back as now people with prescriptions are going to have to spend a lot more money refilling the same prescription multiple times over the course of a month.
Problem: The first problem is the opioid epidemic that is severely affecting South Florida. The second problem is caused by the attempted solution for the first now causing prescriptions for some patients with chronic pain to be filled out multiple times within a months time.
Who: The people who have the problem are the people addicted to opioids since it often leads to death. Another is the hospitals who have to spend billions of dollars relating to opioid health related costs. The last people with the problem are the patients who now have to spend more money and time filling out their much need prescriptions due to the new bill launched by the House.