Met with Ian Heisey who is involved with Cleveland’s Community Development Corporation project. Cleveland has 21 CDC programs throughout the city, all with a focus on improving the quality of life within the neighborhoods. Heisey is involved with the CDC … Continue reading →
Spent the week updating more of the position papers [see: “Life Issues”], readying for our next tour, and preparing for a talk I gave tonight at Cleveland’s Whitman House. The monthly event is called: “Soup and Substance.” And tonight I … Continue reading →
After Mass at St. Augustine’s Church in Cleveland Sunday, I stopped at the social hall there where, every day, there are meals for the poor. It’s not uncommon for 50 to 75 street people (or people on the edge of … Continue reading →
Met with Megan Wilson who is the project manager for Cleveland’s new “City Wheels” project. An environmental initiatives, City Wheels has a fleet of hybrid cars (gas and electric) that are available for rent to area people. Ms. Wilson said … Continue reading →
I have spent the last few days updating our position paper on: crime. It contains a tremendous amount of research per:, not only creative crime prevention programs, but precipitating factors that lead to crime: alcohol and drug addiction, poverty in … Continue reading →
We are readying for a 22 state campaign tour and we will be leaving Dec. 14. We are trying to raise donations for the first leg of the tour. If you can help, please consider it. We are in need. … Continue reading →
Thanksgiving. This morning while volunteering at the “Storefront,” a Catholic Worker outreach here in Cleveland, we met a man who had slept outside last night — the temperature: 20 degrees. We invited him to our apartment so he didn’t have … Continue reading →
The last three days I’ve been working on the final draft of a paper on our Health Care postion [see: “what joe stands for”]. It starts off with a quote from an interview I did with The Salina (KS) Journal … Continue reading →
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported violent crime is up in the city this year, led by more homicides. And our section of Cleveland, recently, reflects some of this trend… About a week ago, there was a street corner gun fatality … Continue reading →
We stopped by the Catholic Worker House in Cleveland after the kids second soccer match at the Micheal Zone Recreation Center here. I excitedly shared about their last minute victory in a “shoot out.” One of the volunteers, Joe Mueller … Continue reading →