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American Nightmare: College

American Nightmare: College

May 9, 2013

I’m sure you have heard the phrase or something similar “The best way to get ahead in the world is by going to college.” Work hard, study hard, and the riches shall be bestowed upon you. If only it were that simple. In reality, more than half of the individuals that graduate with a college degree end up in a field with no correlation to their degree of...

What’s the Matter with Wichita

What’s the Matter with Wichita

Dec 29, 2012

    So I write this blog as I have just recently completed the book turned documentary “What’s the matter with Kansas?” If you have not watched nor read, in summation, the title briefly explains the grass roots nature and current political ideology of the state that is known as a Republican state. Let me openly say, that I subscribe to neither...

Networking-The lost Art form

Networking-The lost Art form

Aug 19, 2012

    I simply find it fallacious how intelligence agencies can share information but businesses and organizations in a local economy will not. We ask for change and progress in our city, but refuse to infuse others outside of “our chosen” networks with the needed resources and information to drive ideas. It often appears regardless of how great an...

Time for Change and accountability

Time for Change and accountability

Mar 10, 2012

  So here we are, yet again. Awakening to another morning shed from a night filled with violence and tragedy in the City Of Wichita; and yet again, it involved our Hip-Hop/Rap/Urban audience. I think the past 10-15 years of history has shown us that often more times than not, alcohol and the urban scene have been a flammable mixture which have produced...

Branding

Branding

Feb 21, 2012

  (Image courtesy of Carlos A. Soto)   Many times the upstart business or individual thinks advertising is simply a matter of putting together a commercial to be aired on television/radio and by accomplishing these simple tasks the business can just sit back and wait for the consumers to come in droves. Other methods associated with the “throw...

Wichita/The Boeing Fall out

Wichita/The Boeing Fall out

Jan 8, 2012

  With the recent decision by the Boeing Company to close its operating facilities in the Wichita area, the shock, disbelief and outrage has not come of shortage within the past week. Many are pointing to the enormous amount of revenue that Boeing pumps into the Wichita economy, the nearly 2200 hundred jobs and the countless contributions made to...