too busy?
From Liz: As we get ready to embark on yet another campaign tour, I find myself busy, impatient, and more busy. But I’m probably not the only one. It seems to me most families feel pressure from … Continue reading →
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Knowing the desperation of the streets…
I’ve been in Cleveland the past few weeks readying for our next set of tours and doing some writing projects. Some of the writing has been about Bruce Stalla, 54. He was homeless in Cleveland for ten years. … Continue reading →
do the math…
In Chicopee, Massachussetts, we talked with Jackie and Bob Mashia on our last tour. They have a modest, one-story ranch style home. On the roof are four solar panels that were put in in the early ’80s. … Continue reading →
a city on the edge
We live in a hardscrabble urban area of Cleveland, Ohio. And a couple days ago, I broke up a fight between a couple kids out in front of our local Rec. Center. Now kids fighting happens. But down … Continue reading →
grassroots health care debate
On our last tour, we stopped in Lee, New Hampshire, where groups of Republicans and Democrats were demonstrating about health care reform on a public green there one morning. We stopped and talked to both sides. On the … Continue reading →
saving their (and our) ‘soles’
We’ve just made it back home to Cleveland, Ohio, for a pit stop and the next few entries will be catching up on some other highlights from this last tour… In Holden, New York, we talked with Jean Hach, who … Continue reading →
Norman Rockwell and the Retro Pop Shop
We were in Sockbridge, Massachussetts, over the weekend. Stockbridge is in the Berkshire Mountains and boasts being the home of the National Norman Rockwell Museum. At one point, I was in the Stockbridge City Building looking at some … Continue reading →
healthcare prevention, a protest and an ‘assassin’
Our tour up Route 1 continues… In Colonial Heights, Virginia, we talked with Ted Du Varney, 68, who has diabetes. (He actually looks like he’s in his early 50s.) He now charts everything he eats on a computerized … Continue reading →
global warming, wind and a parrot named “Kiwi”
We continue along our campaign tour of Rte. 1 on the east coast… I gave a talk at St. Ann’s Church in Colonial Heights, Virginia. I said our lifestyles in America are significantly fueling global warming. And as … Continue reading →
Softball with Iran?
Catching up on some of our recent backroads campaigning… Just outside Huntington, West Virginia, I interviewed Frank Holcomb from Point Pleasant in Mason County. He is a retired state trooper. Several years prior, he had answered a … Continue reading →