A just published report by Swiss scientists says that planting “1 trillion trees” worldwide could significantly impact climate change. And we could let Ada, Ohio, take the lead. I was covering a village council meeting there last night. It was … Continue reading →
While I went into downtown North Baltimore, Ohio, to stump early Saturday evening (see previous entry), virtually nothing was open. So I headed out to McDonald’s on the outskirts of town. While passing out a “Joe campaign card” to an … Continue reading →
While out campaigning early Saturday evening, I stopped in North Baltimore, Ohio. A sepia-toned downtown mural’s center piece is a train of yesteryear billowing smoke (background in the photo). In the foreground, as timing would have it, a train of … Continue reading →
While Democratic candidates are stumping in Iowa, I headed to Middle-Point, Ohio. Call it a hunch. While passing out campaign cards in the Fire House Pizza & Carry Out, one woman said she was impressed I was stumping in, of … Continue reading →
I interviewed a local driving instructor today for a newspaper article. She noted that “distracted driving” was getting to be almost epidemic. I noted in the story that 33,000 people (and this doesn’t include the maiming, and so on.) die … Continue reading →
My son had an away basketball game in Convoy, Ohio, the other night, so I went a bit early to stump. (It’s a low budget campaign, and I often try to combine these trips. Anyway…) This night I, in ad … Continue reading →
It’s time to stop beating around the bush(fire). This is what a significant part of Australia looks like right now. Climate change? Yes, on one level. But this, according to the Bible’s “Sea of fire” passage is what hell looks … Continue reading →
Trump just tweeted that: “Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.” We, conversely, have more than 2,000 deployable nuclear weapons — aimed all over the world. What’s more, we have some 20,000 weaponized drones. In Pope Francis’s New Year’s Day … Continue reading →
As mentioned in the previous post, I’m currently reading parts of a sociology college textbook written by James Henslin (the above is an outtake from the book). It notes that people in least industrialized countries live on less than $1,000 … Continue reading →
Over the weekend, I was reading part of this college textbook on sociology. Under a section on “family,” it noted — among a lot of things — that half the inmates in U.S. jails had a father, mother, brother or … Continue reading →