I just wrote a local newspaper article about a special group of students who just graduated with their Masters in Law from Ohio Northern University. They are all from the country of Kosovo. What’s more, one man told me that … Continue reading →
At the Memorial Day Parade in Bluffton yesterday, I took this photo. Most of these guys are Vietnam Vets (there was just one WWII veteran at the event). These guys’ sacrifices can’t be quantified, but it can be honored. And … Continue reading →
During a village council meeting I was covering last night, the village administrator said he’d been contacted by this church about them holding an open-air morning service in the downtown park. Back and forth discussion ensued among the council members … Continue reading →
I just wrote a newspaper article about Food For The Poor, Inc. The organization provides food, clean drinking water wells, agricultural help, adequate housing… for people in 17 Third World countries. This is for people who, say, live in mud … Continue reading →
For Earth Day, I wrote a newspaper article about Bluffton University’s Sustainability Club. The students got a campus restaurant to ban non-biodegradable plastic straws, they are lobbying for food composting at the cafeteria, they are proposing an “Energy Savings Challenge” … Continue reading →
I attended a keynote speech at a Criminal Justice Education Conference at Ohio Northern University. Representative Robert Cupp said the House was working on a bill to make 4th and 5th degree felonies misdemeanors in some cases that involved drugs … Continue reading →
Just this week I interviewed a woman who came to the U.S. from Jalisco, Mexico in 1999. At the time, she was a 23-year-old single mother of two young children, and her husband had left them. As with many place … Continue reading →
While the other campaigns were doing the $1,000 a plate fundraisers, and such, I was doing a $1.29 McDouble and passing out campaign literature in the Ottawa, Ohio, McDonald’s one Friday night recently. It was also here that I met … Continue reading →
I was reading part of this book tonight for research. It noted that in the early 1980s, only 18,000 acres of old growth redwood forests in California were left — down from a high of 200,000 acres. (And the guess … Continue reading →
Brandon Fitzimmons was just back from the southern border when I met with him. Mr. Fizimmons works with a Jesuit non-profit that has set up a Soup Kitchen and shelters for immigrants stuck in Mexico, trying to get into America. … Continue reading →