Buckeye Back Roads Tour cont.: We drove north into Cambridge, Ohio, where I did some impromptu stumping with the late afternoon ‘brain trust’ in a corner of a McDonald’s Restaurant there. Some 12 older guys were spread among about five … Continue reading →
Buckeye Back Road Tour cont.: While the other candidates are on Meet the Press and Face the Nation , et. al., Liz and I were in Sabrina Modzelewski’s kitchen in Lancaster, Ohio, being grilled with list of questions … Continue reading →
Buckeye Back Road Tour cont.: We continue to travel about Ohio where Obama and McCain are now in a “dead heat,” according to the Columbus Dispatch today. Wouldn’t it be fascinating if it stayed that way in Ohio … Continue reading →
Buckeye Back Road Tour cont.: During Mass at St. Mary’s in Lancaster, Ohio, today, Fr. Donald Franks emphasized that it is important for Christians to persevere in prayer, in exercise, in work… In deference to that, our … Continue reading →
Buckeye Back Road Tour cont.: We ended our pit-stop in Cleveland and have headed back out onto the back roads of Ohio. In Wooster, Ohio, farmer Ed Schafrath (brother of former Cleveland Brown Dick Schafrath), told me he … Continue reading →
Buckeye Back Road Tour cont.: We made a brief pit-stop back home in Cleveland last week. Liz and I painted a couple rooms in the place next door to put food on the table. I told a … Continue reading →
Buckeye Back Road Tour cont.: On the current ‘financial crisis’… Foreclosures seem to be starting a chain reaction. A homeowner is foreclosed upon when they can’t pay the mortgage anymore. This begs the question: How … Continue reading →
Buckeye Back Road Tour cont.: In a recap of the last week… We met with students of St. Paul’s Outreach at Ohio State University in Columbus. This group of Catholic Christians live in community, pray together every morning, … Continue reading →
Buckeye Back Road Tour cont.: Ohio got hit by it’s first (Category 1) Hurricane, ever, yesterday. Hurricane Ike arrived in the Buckeye State with wind gusts of up to 76 mph. We were driving our campaign vehicle/camper … Continue reading →
Buckeye Back Roads Tour cont.: It’s been somewhat of a whirlind since we launched on this final tour through Ohio. We stopped in Yorkshire, Ohio, where we met with the Kremers and the Smiths, both organic farming families … Continue reading →