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 →
Catching up more on the last month… I gave a keynote talk on Running for President as an Independent Candidate at the American Solidarity Party’s Regional Conference in Walnut Creek, Ohio, a couple weeks back. I also gave brief talks … Continue reading →
In the book A Farewell to Alms (A Brief Economic History of the World), author Gregory Clark writes of the Industrial Revolution: “The classic description has also suggested that significant technological advances across disparate sectors of the economy contributed to … Continue reading →
I headed onto Ohio’s back roads for yet more stumping (and learning)… My first stop was at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio, where I sat in on a lecture by Sylvia Earle, and internationally known oceanographer. Ms. Earle was … Continue reading →
We have come to Carabelle, Florida (pop. 2,778) to, in part, participate at the Annual River Front Festival… During the event, I met with former Carrabelle Mayor Mel Kelly. She told me one of her biggest accomplishments was … Continue reading →
According to Gwynne Dyer, author of the book Climate Wars, for each year we don’t “come up with an adequate climate deal (Copenhagen Accords was a bust),” it is probably costing somewhere on the order of 50 million premature deaths … Continue reading →
We headed out of New Orleans yesterday toward Baton Rouge, Louisiana. We picked a backroad (LA 18) that looked on the map like it was going to be a ‘scenic byway,’ and it was. That is, it was … Continue reading →
We’re in motion on yet another series of tours for Campaign 2012… Heading south on I-75 through Tennessee, we saw a billboard that simply read: Less Speed. Less Pollution… We make it a point of driving … Continue reading →
I’m just in the process of preparing a talk I’ll be giving at Notre Dame University toward the end of the month. I hold to a Consistent Life Ethic that sets me against poverty, pollution, abortion, euthanasia… and anything … Continue reading →
We’ve stayed in Huntington, West Virginia (pop. 50,000) the last week amidst a whirlind of activity. I was interviewed by the online newspaper here and Channel 3 News did an interview during a whistle-stop event we held downtown. … Continue reading →