Part of my stumping strategy is: When I see a group, any group, of people gathered… And so it was the other Friday night along Old Rte. 30 in Cairo, Ohio, on the way to my kid’s away basketball game … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: December 2018
It was reported today that Elizabeth Warren has formed an “Exploratory Committee” to get a jump on the other potential Democratic presidential contenders. Not to be outdone, I declared a year ago and have been campaigning ever since. Part of … Continue reading
Catching up on the rest of the month… For “Small Business Saturday,” I did a newspaper story on, well, small businesses in Bluffton. They are the backbone of our economy (some 70% of businesses are small businesses), and they are … Continue reading
Pictured here is Rachel Mathewson. I just interviewed her for a newspaper article. She’s 42-years-old, the mother of seven — and has run the Boston Marathon twice, and counting. (She currently has her eyes set on “Boston 2020.”) I currently … Continue reading
What does that front cloud on the horizon look like? Yeah, I thought that too. –photo by Joe On March 18, 1942, four American Airacobra jets crashed together during a blinding snowstorm in a cluster of trees near a farmer’s … Continue reading
Ken Laurie is sworn in as the newest member of the Ada Village Council. –photo by Joe I covered an Ada Village Council Meeting last night. As I write this, Trump is threatening a government shutdown. Conversely, this little village … Continue reading
ONU Mobile Health Clinic parked in downtown Bluffton, Ohio I recently did a newspaper article about Ohio Northern University’s “Mobile Health Clinic.” Funded by federal and private grants (including money from ONU), university pharmacy students, and other volunteers, travel throughout … Continue reading
I was just reading in USA Today that Russia’s GDP is less than that of California’s. What’s more, their economy, right now, is hurting. While on the one hand, we continue to play geo-political chess with Russia over election hacking, … Continue reading
I just did a newspaper story on Bluffton’s Allen and Diane Yoder. Each year for the past nine years, they have gone on “Road Scholar” learning vacations. The tour guides are local historians, college professors, and such. The Yoders just … Continue reading