Hey, I'm Kevin. Welcome to my personal weblog. Thanks for visiting, and I hope you'll stick around a while. I write about family, school, business, politics, sports and more. I'm 23 years old, and I write it like I see it.

Project New Vision Encourages Young Entrepreneurs

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Many young people have dreams of starting their own business, but factors such as fear and lack of resources and support dampen those dreams and often discourage young people from starting their own business.
22-year old Ooltewah High School graduate and business owner, Melissa Hicks, founded Project New Vision aiming to provide a network for young [...]

New Direction for My Blog

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The purpose of this blog is to provide an online journal for my thoughts.  If you’ve ever visited before, you’ve noticed that I write about business, sports, politics, life and anything else that is on my mind.  Although I am going to continue to write about those topics, I’ve decided to slightly veer closer to [...]

Burke Report Daily Wrap-Up: 5/29/08

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This will be the first of many regular daily entries to come. In addition to my normal posting, I’ll post once daily as a way to journalize my days. These post will be relatively short and will include things like thoughts about the day’s happenings, stock market updates in relation to my holdings [...]

Times Free Press Shows Me Some Love

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The headline reads “Minding Your Business,” and the photograph is me in my store on East Brainerd Road. Times Free Press staff writer, Jennifer Adkins, contacted me last week to interview me on a story she was working on that discussed young entrepreneurs entering the economy.
I was very impressed with the thoroughness of her [...]

Welcome Back to Kevin Brent Burke II dot com!

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I quit blogging back in March when I announced my candidacy for the Hamilton County District 7 School Board seat that was being vacated by Joe Conner. I really enjoyed being involved in the “Education Debate” in Hamilton County, and I had the opportunity to meet many people. My campaign team felt confident [...]