In 2008, the California Supreme Court ruled that banning gay marriage in the Golden State was unconstitutional. The basis of this ruling was simple: the act of banning marriage for gays amounted to creating a status of second class citizens. Gay activists applauded the ruling, while conservatives derided it as an assault on traditional values. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'General'
The Prop 8 Trial
March 12th, 2010 · No Comments
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Celebrate Read an E-Book Week with 50% Discount
March 7th, 2010 · No Comments
It is Read an E-Book Week from March 7 to 13. To celebrate this year’s promotion of e-reading, I will be offering all of my e-books for 50% off of their original price. Enter the code RAE50 at checkout to redeem your discount. On top of that, people that tweet about this article (linking to [...]
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Now Sold at Barnes & Noble
February 26th, 2010 · No Comments
As an author, you want to reach as large of an audience as possible. That’s why I’ve been working to get my e-books sold on more than just Amazon.com and Smashwords. After a relatively long wait, all four of my works are now available for purchase on Barnes & Noble’s website. They have also been [...]
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A Plea to My Friends: Stop the Insensitivity
February 24th, 2010 · No Comments
I am not one to believe in the suppression of ideas. Political correctness in the United States has often run amok to the point that we can not even have honest and open conversations with each other anymore. The “word police” are not something that I embrace.
Yet I am troubled by what I find in [...]
South Bend Mayor Announces Plan for Streetcars, Google High Speed Internet
February 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment
The Mayor of South Bend, Indiana today announced that the city would apply for federal grants that would make it possible for a streetcar system to link downtown with the University of Notre Dame, residential and commercial areas of the city. As the South Bend Tribune reports:
Transpo, the local bus service, is seeking federal grants [...]
President Obama Meets with Republicans for Q&A
February 1st, 2010 · No Comments
President Obama went full steam into the lion’s den on Friday as he joined Republicans at their annual retreat in Baltimore, Maryland. While he gave a speech that sounded similar themes to his State of the Union, such as a shared burden on solving America’s problems, he also took questions from House Republicans. It was [...]
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Detroit: A City on the Brink #1 on Amazon.com
January 19th, 2010 · No Comments
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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South Bend Tops Nation in Home Value
January 11th, 2010 · No Comments
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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Th!nk Electric Car Plant Coming to Elkhart
January 10th, 2010 · No Comments
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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The Slavery Debate in 19th Century America
December 15th, 2009 · No Comments
The United States has come a long way. It was only a century and a half ago that we still had slaves plowing fields, picking cotton and doing the daily chores of their master. Today, we have an African American president named Barack Obama. I think that it is important to not just understand the [...]