Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. A front page article in The Jeffersonian out of Cambridge, Ohio this week noted I said in this fast paced society of ours, youth are often being shorted emotionally, with both parents off working and … Continue reading →
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. Was in Jackson, Ohio this morning. Cook Gina Pittman, 35, at the Main Street Diner here is a single parent of three children, ages 15, 13 and 8. She walks with a noticeable limp (and … Continue reading →
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. Stumped at M.R. Mack’s restaurant in downtown Logan, Ohio early this morning and talked with Logan Daily News columnist Edgar “Bud” Simpson. He said growing up in northern Maine he watched as clear cutting and … Continue reading →
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. I stumped with the regulars in the Blue Bell Diner (’50s motif and “…the best coffee in town”) in McConnelsville, Ohio this morning. (In a front page feature piece on Election 2004, USA Today had … Continue reading →
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. I headed into Marietta, Ohio late this afternoon where I stumped on the street in front of the Court House, then interviewed Stephen Moore. Moore is here from California helping staff a Small Business Association … Continue reading →
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. Was interviewed by Wheeling, West Virginia’s newspaper per: a whistle-stop in Martin’s Ferry, Ohio today. I said a “common sense” answer to our country’s energy situation is for some to: house share. Not only would … Continue reading →
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. Stumped in Colleen’s Place Restaurant in Lisbon, Ohio this morning. Local contractor Bill Martin told me with a lot of lumber going to Iraq for reconstruction, it has hurt him because lumber prices here have … Continue reading →
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. Spent the day with Tim and Ann Miller in Lisbon, Ohio. They have a small family farm they are raising their seven children on. And they practice “apostolic farming.” They look at farming as a … Continue reading →
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. At the Algonquin Festival in Petersburg, Ohio, today, story teller Ralph Borror did an imitation of Abraham Lincoln. “Abe” said a defining moment for him came as a youth when he happened upon a Slave … Continue reading →
Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. Was interviewed by the editor of the newspaper in Cadiz, Ohio, today. I said we saw one of the biggest travesties in America is the demise of the small family farm, because farmers are not … Continue reading →