Kyle Bell

Democratic Governor Pat Quinn of Illinois is in a fight for his political life as he faces Comptroller Dan Hynes for the party’s nomination. Quinn, who became governor after Rod Blagojevich was impeached and removed from office, is running a state that has serious fiscal problems. In this economy, that is not something that is [...]

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It’s not every day that an author can say that they are #1. Last week I found out that my e-book, Detroit: A City on the Brink, achieved just that. It was the best selling Urban Planning & Development e-book on Amazon.com. Help keep it there by buying your own copy for $1.99. You can [...]

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In the fall of 2008, the financial system collapsed in a way that forced the federal government to bailout major banks on Wall Street. The program, started under the Bush administration, was known as TARP. Congress authorized the Treasury Department to spend $700 billion of taxpayer money to stabilize the system in the hope that [...]

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The New York Times has an op-ed by lawyer Thomas Geoghegan where he argues that the filibuster has become an unconstitutional tool of obstruction. His thesis is that the filibuster was never the intent of the Founding Fathers. By requiring a 60 vote threshold in a 100 body chamber, the Senate’s minority is subverting majority [...]

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The Today Show recently aired a piece in which they named the top 10 U.S. cities based on home value. Factoring into their list were things such as cost of living, rising home prices and job growth. My hometown of South Bend, Indiana came in at #1 on the list. Not too shabby, I would [...]

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We’ve done a lot of reporting about Elkhart and the state of the economy on this blog. President Obama of course brought national attention when he visited the city twice, once to announce an electric vehicle that would be made in the city. Another electric car company will be moving to town in the near [...]

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If you watch television at all, particularly Fox Conservative Opinion Channel (otherwise known as Fox “News”), you have probably heard a lot of Republican pundits talk about how they are going to retake the House of Representatives in the fall election. While it certainly would not be out of the realm of possibility if current [...]

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There has been a lot of hoopla over the “socialist” agenda of the Obama administration. But the same critics of the administration that is actively trying to repair the country after the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression don’t have any ideas of their own. In fact, they can’t even point to any of [...]

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