by Kevin Burton I don’t know what this story will do for you, but it could save my family a ton of cash. WalletHub, an online finance company that I had never heard of before last week, ranks Wichita in its top ten of travel destinations. And Wichita is way up high …
Category Archives: transportation
Burton Ride Service Delivers (For Me)
by Kevin Burton The following is a product/service review for the Burton Ride Service, located in South Central Kansas. The service was formally established in 2012. Terms and conditions for this service are written between the lines of a 2012 marriage license obtained in Sedgwick County, Kansas. This review is written and …
A Little Good News To Warm Your Heart
by Kevin Burton A Michigan seventh-grader steered his schoolmates and himself out of danger by taking the wheel of an out-of-control school bus. The story of Dillon Reeves’ quick thinking is one of two stories we present today from the Good News Network. There is abundant gloom and doom coming from news outlets. …
Oh Baby! Life Begins At Costco
by Kevin Burton Is there more to Costco than meets the eye? From UPI March 30, came a story about a Michigan couple who didn’t quite make it to the hospital when their baby was due. “Emergency responders in Michigan said an impatient baby refused to wait for the hospital and ended …
A New Take On Taxis And Guide Dogs
If you are blind and use a guide dog for travel, this story is all too familiar to you. This comes from Calgary, Alberta, courtesy CBC News. “A Calgary cab company has fined and temporarily suspended one of its drivers for refusing to give a ride this week to a blind woman …
A Little Good News Goes A Long Way
by Kevin Burton Have you had enough of the shouters and the doubters, the doom and the gloom? How about a little good news? The Apostle Paul encouraged people to focus on things that are true, honest, just and pure. “If there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on …
Welcome (Not Welcome!) To Kevin’s Ark
by Kevin Burton Our home Bible study has left Genesis for now and gone to Esther. But before we get too far from Noah and the ark, a few more stray thoughts. Or should I say “astray thoughts?” Thoughts that show I have gone astray, at least in the moment. I wrote …
Buddy Holly’s Visual And Musical Acuity
by Kevin Burton I have never seen a picture of Buddy Holly without his thick glasses, but I never have pondered whether he was legally blind until now. He probably was not, by the way, though he had poor vision. More about that in a bit. This comes up today on the …
Raised On Radio: Gaga For That Sound
by Kevin Burton Can’t remember how we got on the topic, but a co-worker was telling me last week how radio was the life blood of his youth. Radio was the conveyor belt on which everybody travelled in my day, as in his (he is roughly ten years older than I am, if …
More Discrimination Against The Blind
by Kevin Burton Today, two stories about blind people standing up for their rights, one of a pending lawsuit, one of a successful suit in Ohio. I’m happy to see blind people demanding their rights, but sad that we should have to go to such lengths to get the right to lead basic, …