My son Jonathan and I are collaborating on a funds2Orgs project at the high school here. We are setting up a box for used shoes. The organization then takes the shoes, weighs them, and donates so much per: pound to … Continue reading
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Busy week… A story about the campaign ran in the Bluffton News (circ. 2,000) yesterday. Well if you don’t carry Bluffton, you’re not going to carry the country. The story noted that I was being billed as “average Joe the … Continue reading
I have spent the week campaigning around our hometown, Bluffton, Ohio (pop. 3,875). Well the way we have it figured, if we don’t carry Bluffton, we aren’t going to carry the country. (To reiterate, we’re doing this all without paid … Continue reading
photo by Joe In the last week, I’ve written newspaper articles about: the fiscal outlook of a typical village in the midst of a pandemic; about a high school student involved with an Ohio “Ambassador’s Program” designed to teach young … Continue reading
joe photo by joe… at yet another travel center Catching up on the last couple weeks… I’m pictured here at the Pilot Travel Center in Beaverdam, Ohio, where I stopped to stump. Think about it. You’ve got people from all … Continue reading
photo by Joe (the painter) While “Mar-a-lago Donald” and the “Scranton working class kid Joe” (cough) pull out all the stops trying to pander to the “average Joe’s and Jane’s” out there, I just finished painting part of this porch … Continue reading
photo by Joe [pre-pandemic] This week I wrote a piece for the newspaper on a Youth For Christ (YFC) outreach in a hardscrabble area of Lima, Ohio. This place, as you see here (pre-pandemic), is usually bustling with youth activity, … Continue reading
heirloom tomatoes Just wrote a newspaper story about a local man who recently moved here from Portland, Oregon. He’s renting a place that, when he moved in, had about a third of an acre of well-manicured backyard lawn. Not anymore. … Continue reading
I just did a story this week for the newspaper about Bluffton High School’s first intra-squad soccer scrimmage last Saturday. The coaches set it up “under the lights,” played the National Anthem at the beginning of the match, and it … Continue reading
sportlocker.net photo It was reported today that Trump’s golf outings this first term have cost the tax payers $133 million (traveling costs, Secret Service detail, etc.), and counting. This far eclipses Obama’s golfing at the same point in his presidency. … Continue reading