Our tour up Route 1 continues… In Colonial Heights, Virginia, we talked with Ted Du Varney, 68, who has diabetes. (He actually looks like he’s in his early 50s.) He now charts everything he eats on a computerized … Continue reading
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blogspot.com photo I was just interviewing a history professor at Ohio Northern University. He teaches a class on Public History and said that, more and more, contemporary America is developing a marked protest climate. He said, for an amalgam of … Continue reading
photo by Joe I covered a George Floyd Protest Rally this week in our village. Some 300 people came together for a peaceful, and poignant, protest. There were prayers, songs, testimonies about racism… But the one thing that was missing … Continue reading
Baby Center photo Okay, looking at this picture, it wouldn’t take an anatomy professor at Dartmouth to figure out that abortion is murder. Period. Yet our society has become so unbelievably evil at this point… There are all those on … Continue reading
I gave a speech at Franciscan University last week. I talked about my faith walk and how it tied into my running for president. I turned the second half of the talk into a “Town Hall Meeting.” Someone asked me … Continue reading
I interviewed Greg Gerschutz recently. He joined the Peace Corps in the early ’70s and was sent to a rural village in the Philippines called Eastern Infanta (pop. 2,000). He worked with an extension agency there to help small farmers … Continue reading
Some more vignettes from our recent Buckeye Back Roads Tour: In Beaverdam, Ohio (Well, if you don’t carry Beaverdam, you’re not going to carry the country.), I put up a campaign flier at the local market. Then at Benroth Body … Continue reading
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During the Republican presidential debate last night, there was talk of positions toward Cuba. Cuba currently remains closed to American investments as a result of a 50 year travel and trade embargo. The Obama administration, like administrations before, have chastised … Continue reading
And you think the Super Committee had problems… I talked last week with Tom Eckelberry who is the president of the Harrod, Ohio (pop. 400), Village Council. Harrod is one of a handful of towns that don’t assess a tax on resident … Continue reading
The “Back Road to the White House Tour” rolls on… In Ayersville, Ohio (pop. it wasn’t even listed in the Atlas), I put up a campaign flier in the Ayersville Gas Station (one pump) / Carry Out / Restaurant (one … Continue reading