Journalist, consultant, publisher, and servant-leader with a passion for truth-seeking. Enjoy motorcycling, meditation, and spending quality time with my daughter and rescue hound. Spiritually-centered first and foremost. Lived in multiple states within the USA and frequent traveler to the mountains.
Our War Against the Truth Must End by Releasing Whistleblowers – Decriminalize Them Now We’re just now experiencing one of the most bizarre years or periods of time this earth has ever encountered. I am a consummate reader and contribute to several blogs. Like Donald Trump, I tweet all the time because it forces me […]
Corrupt Bank Wants a Tax on Employees to Offset Advantage of Remote Work What makes this story so remarkable is that Deutsche Bank still has a license after using its bank to launder billions or trillions of dollars from drug cartels and Russian mobsters over the years. Now, they’ve cooked up a new scheme targeting […]
Invest in Local Business and Create Magic Inside Every community around the globe has the ability to thrive in a magical manner when the majority of the community chooses to invest in their local businesses. People will watch the stock ratings closely to see how their local business is doing. There are so many benefits […]
Muncie Oligarchy Looking for Land Grab in Muncie Very disappointed that our newly elected Mayor Dan Ridenour would work behind the scenes with Jud Fisher at Ball Foundation and Next Muncie along with the president of YMCA, Chad Zaucha, to lease a portion of Tuhey Park in downtown Muncie, Indiana. Last month I learned that […]
This election is another sign of a struggling country. I’ve spent the past several years researching and writing about our country on a blog hosted by Professor Sheila Kennedy, who teaches civics at Indianapolis University. There are some profound thinkers on this blog. Like half of America, they really got walloped with the symbolism of […]
Press freedom is not embraced by our media In my last article discussing our flawed democracy, I mentioned I’d be taking a further look at what is happening in this country. I’ve written numerous articles about our media over the years and almost always refer to the media study conducted by our foremost intellectual, Noam […]
Checks and balances established in our constitution are failing. By: Todd Smekens What caused me to start-up Muncie Voice back in 2011 was our locally owned Gannett newspapers poor local press coverage. They were covering a Republican mayor at the time who was grossly unqualified for the position, but the press coverage was very slanted […]
Anyone who invests in stocks knows that the stock market is likely to change at any given time for a variety of different reasons. One factor for the stock market to change that many investors aren’t aware of is different news events across America. News events can have a huge impact on the stock market […]
By: Todd Smekens Against my better judgment, I watched the media’s presentation of an argument between a no-nothing bully president and a tired old politician. To me, it was symbolic of what this country has become in so many ways. Our ruling class has captured both political parties making one completely fractured between the donors […]
Cloud solutions have brought about fixes to many of the limitations of old business data infrastructure systems. It simply means that your business’s data is held in a third-party virtual data system, where you don’t have to keep track of it on-premise or worry about losing data. Cloud computing is rapidly revolutionizing the modern work […]