Troy Zoning Board of Appeals - September 2014 Meeting Recap

City staff has posted the video recording of the 9/16/14 Troy Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) meeting to YouTube. At the bottom of this post is the video.

Click here to download the entire Agenda Packet from the September 16th meeting. The only item on the agenda was approved by the ZBA. I voted "yes."

I Won the Book... "It’s OK To Say God"

I actually won a free book thanks to Issues, Etc. The book, Tad Armstrong's It’s OK to Say God: Prelude to a Constitutional Renaissance, arrived in the mail recently.

How did I win the book? See the embedded image below from Twitter.

@IssuesEtc In future RFRA cases, any chance of picking up the vote of one of the four dissenting Justices? #HHSMandate
— Dave Lambert (@DLambertsOnline) July 3, 2014

On the ELL Constitution Club website, Mr. Armstrong says that "preserving our freedom is the single most important issue facing us today, and that religious freedom is the single most important freedom unique to America." I look forward to reading the book primarily to compare Armstrong's views with the doctrine of the Two Kingdoms. Hopefully Mr. Armstrong avoids the errors that Derek Rishmawy discusses in the article Huckabee and the Heresy of Americanism.

Also, I see that there is a local angle to Armstrong. The first ELL Constitution Club outside of his "backyard" in the St. Louis, MO area was started here in Troy, MI.

Below are a couple of videos from the ELL Constitution Club website.

Troy Zoning Board of Appeals - August 2014 Meeting Recap

City staff has posted the video recording of the 8/19/14 Troy Zoning Board of Appeals meeting to YouTube. At the bottom of this post is the video. (The meeting actually starts at around the 45 second mark of the video.)

Click here to download the entire Agenda Packet from the August 19th meeting.