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News
A Sea Change Of A Season For The St. Louis Cardinals
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Daytona Beach Considers An Event That It Has Not Done Before
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3 Places To Eat & Drink Plus A 4-Star Hotel On One Manhattan Block
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St. Louis' Willson Contreras & The Gold Glove
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A Review: Kimpton Hotel Eventi In New York City ​
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Edgewater Florida Beats Space Coast For Business
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Cardinal Nolan Arenado Should Have Retired
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I Was Suspended By X With No Valid Reason Given
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Catcher Alfredo Duno Of The Daytona Tortugas Gets Cincinnati Reds Broadcast Team's Attention
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Will There Be Another Townhouse Development in Daytona Beach, Florida
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Updates
Contact Me For Any Of My Scholarly Articles
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Blackout curtains will be installed in the home office this week for my show, The Opinion Guy.
Rock star book rewrite has not happened lately.
​​For Hometown News Volusia​
I have the No. 1 and No.2 stories, Amazon and Daytona Beach eateries, respectively.
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Stay tuned for two Biketoberfest pieces!
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I published in academia from 2009 through 2018. Cited 120 times! Like something below? I'll get it to you.
The economic crisis and its effect on libraries​
Unlocking the mystery: What academic library search committees look for in filling faculty positions
The recession, budgets, expectations and realities
How using an allocation formula changed funding allocations at Long Island University
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Proposition 13 - America's Second Great Tax Revolt
My First Book
In 1978, the citizens of California took the historic step of voting for Proposition 13, thus reducing property taxes by 57%. Already known as a trend setting state, California's tax revolt was no different, as similar tax revisions quickly spread across the United States of America. In California, state and local governments struggled to find a way to manage the loss in revenue. On many occasions budget cuts were the solution. Library budgets were frequently the target of those cuts.
Top Blogs
​Vegas Tourism Trips Over Cost There's A Hotel Worth The Price
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Marriott Took Over The Omni Jacksonville Hotel
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Republican Liberty Caucus Chair On Trump, The Role of Gov't & Liberty
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The Venetian Resort Las Vegas​
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The Opinion Guy Fun Friendly Informative Outro
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The Opinion Guy Fun Friendly Informative Intro​
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The CURRENT Hotel Tampa Florida
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Media Coverage
Print Interviews I've Given
Fun interview about my life as a freelance writer.
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Christopher Galvez Author Interviews
You might have hit cntrl+find then search my name.
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California Lawyers Association
Talk libraries & my book Proposition 13: America's Second Great Tax Revolt
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Podcasts As A Guest
Great Convo on writing, rocking and drinking!
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The Conversation with Dr. Ardain Isma
We talk about my books, where to eat in Daytona Beach and some USA history.
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MINDFULNESS WITH ROOP - The Bellwether Series with Charles Guarria
Advice for new writers, journalist, authors, and fitness!
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We talk writing, relationships, the rock life, COVID and more!
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Author to Author with Charles Guarria: Impeccable Research
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Writing and Proposition 13: America's Second Great Tax Revolt
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We talk libraries and Proposition 13: America's Second Great Tax Revolt
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Reviews
Proposition 13 – America’s Second Great Tax Revolt: A Forty Year Struggle for Library Survival… Guarria does a great job connecting these details to the real impact on libraries in California, as well as connecting the case of California with the rest of the nation…this book should be included in collections on the resilience of libraries and in any academic collection focusing on information and library science… Guarria's conclusion still rings true…
Quotable
" Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated."
Could be anonymous, could be Russell Warren
About Me
As a freelance reporter, I cover all of Volusia County for the Hometown News and My Deltona Magazine, writing about restaurants, construction projects, charities, features and interviewing city officials and politicians.
As a freelance writer, I will be self-publishing my second book, it is a novel about a musician.
As a blogger, I mostly write about baseball, hotels and music.
As a former librarian, I wrote Proposition 13: America’s Second Great Tax Revolt, a library economics book.
I have published in scholarly journals and am a three-time winner of Emerald Group Publishing’s Highly Commended Award.
Find out more; watch this quick video!
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit
Richard Bach
