Archive for March, 2008

• True devotion: blogging about the Orioles

  Monday, March 31st, 2008

  Blogging about the Orioles isn’t for the faint of heart.The team, which opens the 2008 season tomorrow, used to have about 30 blogs focused on it, according to baseballblogs.org.That was on a par with the San Francisco Giants (30 blogs) and Seattle Mariners (31), but well below the rabid followings of the Boston Red Sox […]

• For the lakes' sake

  Monday, March 31st, 2008

  Appearing at the fourth Binational Lake St. Clair conference last week at MacRay Harbor in Harrison Township, Sen. Debbie Stabenow insisted policy and funding for environmental action shouldn’t be politicized.“I tell people all the time: It’s really not a partisan issue,” she said.Who’ll pay to keep Lake St. Clair’s water safe?Environmental report on Michigan was […]

• New Book Offers Entertaining Look at Lifetime of Deception

  Monday, March 31st, 2008

  If as Americans we are predisposed to big, beautiful lies of self-invention and the perennial urge to fashion our lives in the shape of our boundless idealism, we are just as keen to point out every instance of it and file it away in an ever growing body of literature on the American Dream. Gatsby […]

• PBS Tells Tale Of 'The Lost Eskimo'; Alexander Guest-Stars On …

  Monday, March 31st, 2008

  Before he went off to the North Pole, explorer Robert Peary raised money by selling to New York’s American Museum of Natural History some huge meteorites he had dug up in Greenland. He also brought back from the polar realm six Inuits who were as exotic to the New Yorkers of 1897 as the space […]

• Nationals Baseball Team Inaugurates New Stadium With Win

  Monday, March 31st, 2008

  Major League Baseball’s Washington Nationals have defeated the visiting Atlanta Braves, 3-2, to open their 2008 season with a win. As VOA’s Jim Stevenson reports, the victory capped an exciting opening day at the brand new $611 million Nationals Park.Baseball fans in Washington were thrilled late Sunday with the opening of the long-awaited Nationals Park. […]

• Regional:Stop cell towers in residential areas

  Monday, March 31st, 2008

  Cell phone towers are being shoved down property owners’ throats in residential areas in order to advance cell phone company services.However, in doing so, property owners will lose value in their property investments. There is no reason that property owners should take a loss at the gain of cell phone companies and individuals who will […]

• Kansas' Bill Self likes unselfish play

  Monday, March 31st, 2008

  Drawing talent from across the country, he has convened one of the least selfish, most cohesive, elite teams in college basketball.There’s little public bickering about playing time, number of shots taken or who was that night’s hero.That’s because the players were told from day one that their offensive talent got them noticed, but their defensive […]

• Corporate espionage in the A/V and automation business

  Monday, March 31st, 2008

  The A/V and automation industry is competitive, that’s for sure, but according to the Bergen County (N.J.) Prosecutor’s Office, the task of marketing said systems gets dirty at times, as well.The prosecutor’s office last week issued a news release (see news release, scroll down to March 28, 2008 entry) that it had arrested a vice […]

• What makes Martinsville special?

  Monday, March 31st, 2008

  Well, you know what? It is like going back in time. I think that is important. Understand that Martinsville is an historical racetrack that’s clearly part of the NASCAR fabric. To prove it, the Virginia Historical Society has just put a historical marker at the track because of how important it is to the history […]

• Ultimate Upset Comes with Leading Internet Gurus and Marketers …

  Monday, March 31st, 2008

  (EMAILWIRE.COM, March 18, 2008 ) Detroit, MI–Mark Maupin, co-founder of Preasy, and Internet Marketing Made Easy Convention say
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