I met with a group of Vanderbilt University students (and others) who were traveling from Tennessee to Tampa, Florida to stand in solidarity with farm workers protesting for better pay. The students are part of a Workers Dignity Project … Continue reading →
Liz and I gave a campaign talk at the Open Door Community in Atlanta today. The Open Door is an outreach to the homeless. We said that as a family over the years, we have regularly taken homeless … Continue reading →
We have been volunteering at the Open Door Community in urban Atlanta, Georgia, this winter. This is an outreach to the homeless on the streets of Atlanta. On Wednesday nights, there is a free Health Clinic staffed with … Continue reading →
We traveled to Reinhardt College in Waleska, Georgia, over the weekend to watch our daughter Sarah’s team win the State Finals for JV homeschooling basketball girls. After the game, I stopped in the college library where I read part … Continue reading →
According to Gwynne Dyer, author of the book Climate Wars, for each year we don’t “come up with an adequate climate deal (Copenhagen Accords was a bust),” it is probably costing somewhere on the order of 50 million premature deaths … Continue reading →
Hosni Mubarak has stepped down and the “Arab Revolution” gathers steam across the region. The Egyptian protesters, as with the protesters in Tunisia, had grown weary of entrenched regimes that shared the wealth with upper levels of society, while … Continue reading →
Despite all the complex financial hyperbole around the current recession, it’s actually fairly simple to understand at it’s roots… If you’ll allow me an ‘average Joe’ explanation: The U.S. is adrift in a sea of $35 trillion in … Continue reading →
I was reading in a recent AARP Magazine that actor Dennis Quaid has gotten behind an initiative to work for less human error in hospitals across the country. The article alluded to the case of a nurse in … Continue reading →
We’re in Atlanta for the winter volunteering at the Open Door Community, an outreach to the homeless in the area. Recently our family was helping serve at a meal here for the people on the streets. One Hispanic … Continue reading →
Last year at this time, I gave a “State of the Union Address” at the University of Notre Dame just an hour, or so, before President Obama’s address. My talk that night is just as applicable to our country … Continue reading →