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Kyle Gillis
Kyle Gillis | June 29, 2010

With all due respect to Petula Clark, things may not always be that great downtown.

On June 28, ABCNews.com profiled five municipalities “teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.” That list included Maywood, Calif., Harrisburg, Pa.,…

Kyle Gillis | June 28, 2010

Media bias never takes a summer vacation.

On CNN’s June 28 “American Morning,” reporter Mary Snow lamented the poor hiring prospects for teachers in the wake of thousands of layoffs around the country. While several factors such as…

Kyle Gillis | June 28, 2010

In the media’s eyes, Republicans might as well wear hockey goalie masks and run around with chainsaws.

In a June 24 AP story titled “Republicans Kill Senate Jobless Aid Measure,” writer Andrew Taylor paints Senate Republicans as…

Kyle Gillis | June 23, 2010

The Food Police are pursuing their latest criminal: The Hamburglar.

In a statement released on June 22, the liberal Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) announced it was filing a lawsuit against McDonald’s for marketing toys…

Kyle Gillis | June 22, 2010

It didn’t take Velma, Shaggy or Scooby to uncover this mystery.

In a June 21 study published in the medical journal Pediatrics, researchers from Yale University “discovered” that food products with characters on them affect children’s…

Kyle Gillis | June 21, 2010

Tough times don’t last; tough people do.

That’s the theme of author John S. Cohoat’s new book “No Thank You, Mr. President,” which tells the story of 10 private companies in Elkhart County, Ind., that made their own way to economic…