We continued down Highway 95, driving through more desert, more heat (temperatures around 100 today), and into Yuma, Arizona, near the Mexican border. This caps an almost 1,400 mile ‘Hard Ride of 95’ journey for us, and it was now … Continue reading
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I interviewed Dr. David Brooks in Blythe, California. He operates Salude (Health) Clinic here. A significant portion of the community here is poor and Dr. Brooks provides his services through Salude Clinic on purely a donation basis. (He established the … Continue reading
A recent front page article in The New York Times described the current famine in the country of Niger. Because of drought last year in this country, the second poorest country in the world, one in five young children are … Continue reading
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During Campaign 2004, I gave a talk to a sociology class at Bluffton College about part of my plan for: Jobs in America. I said I believed we needed to be looking at this issue through a “different lens.” And … Continue reading
Today I met with a family who moved to a small farm in the village of Maria Stein, Ohio a couple years ago. They are from California, and felt compelled to get “back to the land.” They eat their produce … 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
We came to Old Orchard Beach, Maine today for our last stop of our current Coast-to-Coast Tour spanning some 8,000 miles. We had come here to learn about a $4 million pilot project to harness clean, renewable energy from ocean … Continue reading
We were invited to Warner, New Hampshire for the 30th Anniversary of Magdalen College this weekend. This small college is thread through with a tremendous Catholic ethos. The keynote speaker was a Superior from a Benedictine Monestary in Rome, Italy. … Continue reading
We’ve started to head back east and stopped first in tiny Lovelock, Nevada where we passed out a few flyers. Here we learned that the Humbolt Trail came through here bringing 165,000 emigrants in the 1840s and ’50s as part … Continue reading