Talked with Baldwin Wallace College’s Professor Tom Sutton. He said the “greening” of Cleveland goes on. The city is just starting to develop a six-acre urban farm, complete with Amish organic farm consultants. Across the street from … Continue reading →
Our sons played in a Rec. Center football game tonight in Cleveland. It was a hard fought game that was well coached, on both sides. The only thing that was missing was, well, much of an audience. … Continue reading →
Talked today with two human rights advocates who work in Colombia. Chris Knestrick told me that malaria is a huge problem in that country and he had recently gone on a mission to bring a man deathly sick with … Continue reading →
Over the weekend, I talked to a counselor who works at a local mental health agency here in Cleveland. I said to him that I’d recently read that some 21,000 people had been killed in Mexico in the Drug … Continue reading →
We’re back home in Cleveland. A few entries back, I wrote about the relative tranquility and security often found in small town America. Here, it’s different. As I write this late Saturday night, a police helicopter is … Continue reading →
We were in Wapokenta, Ohio, this week and met with Kimi Brown. She’s the mother of six and one of her daughters works in a restaurant. She came home one night and explained that another waitress, who was … Continue reading →
We were in rural Knox County, Ohio, working on a friend’s farm here for the day. A tremendous wind shear had just come through and our family spent the morning helping clear trees from the fence line… In … Continue reading →
Catching up more on our Buckeye State stop… In rural Bluffton, Ohio, I rode along for a time in combine as a local farmer harvested some soy beans. This was a 1985 combine and is the smallest model … Continue reading →
I was interviewed by a reporter from AOL News. He asked me, among other things, my take on the Israeli / Palestinian Conflict. I said that I believed the Israelis were participating in an illegal land grab that’s … Continue reading →
Stopped at the Sign Shack in Findlay, Ohio. (Findlay, incidentally, is where Pittsburgh Steeler quarterback Ben Roethlisberger played his high schooll ball.) Over the years, we have had our campaign vehicle signage made almost exclusively by owner Joe … Continue reading →