Talked in Terry Armstrong’s government class at Labrea High School in Leavittsburg, Ohio, today. Mr. Armstrong is one of the most proactive high school government teachers we’ve met in our travels across the country. He brings candidates in … Continue reading →
We stopped at the Youngstown, Ohio, YMCA where (Are you ready for this?) there is actually a chapel in the middle of the complex. (The first chapel in a YMCA that we’ve seen anywhere in the country.) What’s … Continue reading →
We have launched on the next phase of our campaign tour… We stopped first in Trumbull County, Ohio. In Warren, Ohio, here, I talked with Fr. Charles Crumbley who is a chaplain for the U.S. Marshalls (showed me his … Continue reading →
We’re still in Cleveland for a pit stop. Tonight I took our kids up to play some football in a league at a neighborhood Rec. Center. When we arrived, there were four police cars and an ambulance in … Continue reading →
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 →