With Betsy DeVos now in as Education Secretary, all eyes are on charter schools. (Or at least most eyes.) With Curtis Bowers, however, not so much. Mr. Bowers is a former principal of a high school in Clarkston, Washington. During … Continue reading
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The local Fox News affiliate did a nice piece on the campaign… And I have continued with our Ohio back road stumping strategy. Well, with Ohio being the “center of the political universe,” and all… This morning I headed into … Continue reading
More catching up on the past two months… I volunteered at an outreach to the homeless in Cleveland on Christmas night, during a trip back to the city to see relatives. This is run out of St. Malachi’s Church on … Continue reading
I was talking to a minister today who noted that the year Social Security was enacted in this country in 1935, the average life span for a white American was 62.9 years. (You couldn’t collect Social Security until you were … 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
Catching up on the last week… I met up with a homeless guy who we had taken in a few years back. He’s a modern day “hobo,” if you will. He has a bi-polar disorder and how it manifests is: … Continue reading
Catching up on the week… Our son Jonathan and I attended a festival in tiny Continental, Ohio, over the weekend. It was dual purpose. There was a fundraising booth there for his Midget Football team — and I did some campaign stumping … Continue reading
Our Florida Panhandle Tour continues… We stopped in Crestview, Florida, where we met with Ron and Mary Kirby. They met in Guam where there are two U.S. military bases. Guam is an unincorporated territory of the … Continue reading
While in Carrabelle, Florida (pop. 2,778), we got to know Randy Harrison and Joan Matey. They’re married. Joan is a local artist who specializes in various art mediums (paints, pencil drawing, miniature sculptures…) Randy, 62, is a … Continue reading
We continued further south, stopping at Koinoinia Farm in Americus, Georgia. This was the backwater Selma to Montgomery of the Civil Rights Movement. On this farm in the late ’40s, blacks and whites lived and worked together in … Continue reading