I campaigned in Twinsburg, Ohio, today, passing out flyers, talking to people. One man said he lived in nearby Remindersville, Ohio. I told him to ‘remind’ everyone there that I was running. (Sorry.) ‘Ohiocana’ Note: Remindersville … Continue reading →
I wrote a letter to the editor of several rural Ohio newspapers this week explaining about a “church farm” that we’d researched in Neola, Iowa, during Campaign 2000. An area farmer there left his 400-acre farm to St. Patrick’s … Continue reading →
I gave a talk to a prayer group at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Cuyahoga Falls last night. During the talk, I shared the following: While in the border town of Juarez, Mexico, we toured a slum … Continue reading →
I stumped at Donut Land in Brunswick, Ohio, yesterday. Brunswick’s Louann Keith noted that youth today are tremendously over-stimulated with cable television, with computer games… She said that growing up it wasn’t unusual for her and her friends to … Continue reading →
On a campaign stop in Brecksville, Ohio, over the weekend, I talked with Rosemary and Norman Hannibal. Each year Norman celebrates his Birthday, as well as his: ‘Lifeday.’ Norman, who is extremely Pro-Life, said nine months before his … Continue reading →
Due to a computer glitch, we have lost the past four months of campaign entries on this blog. Undaunted (sort of), we continue to press on…
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Continue reading →I just wrote a letter-to-the-editor of our diocesan Catholic newspaper in Cleveland. It follows: Should the social justice onus for not having a higher minimum wage in America simply be on legislators, or should we all share the blame? In … Continue reading →
I’ve spent part of the week painting the porch of a young couple’s place in Cleveland. In their bathroom is a daily calender with thoughts from around the world. The June 27th entry was a Ugandan proverb: “Before you throw … Continue reading →
For prayer time yesterday, I read the family part of a front page NY Times article about the desperate conditions in the Congo. According to the article, in less than a decade more than 400 million people have died there. … Continue reading →