ticking time bombs I just watched a PBS Front Line documentary on nuclear power plants. These are “…ticking time bombs.” A number of them, worldwide, are in earth-quake zones, including Japan’s now ill-fated Fukishima Nuclear Power Plant. Not only was … Continue reading →
Catching up on the month of July… I wrote a good number of freelance articles for the Bluffton News. Each, for the most part, tied into various parts of my campaign’s platform. For instance, I did a story on residential … Continue reading →
Catching up on the last couple months… It’s been a whirlwind of stuff in between house painting, parenting, writing, working on the campaign… We, for instance, have done a number of Facebook “…from the ladder” segments about such topics as … Continue reading →
While the polls show our campaign is still a little behind (Go figure!), I continue on in, of all states: Ohio. Call it a hunch. Plus, it’s where we live… I recently stopped in Holgate (pop. 800), where I talked … Continue reading →
Our family drove across the border into Ft. Wayne, Indiana, last night for our kids’ homeschooling basketball games. It was at a recreation center that featured everything: “Indiana basketball.” There were pictures of Larry Byrd, Bobby Knight throwing that famous … Continue reading →
Average JoeOhio Tour cont.: While in Bluffton, we stayed on Dan and Cindy Basinger’s farm. Dan told me he’d recently read a story about a rock singer who converted to Christianity. He was sitting in a pew … Continue reading →
My Buckeye Back Road Tour took me to Van Wert, Ohio today. Van Wert, and the surrounding area, is known for, among other things, having the most wind turbines in the state of Ohio. There are some 300 of them … Continue reading →
For Earth Day, I wrote a newspaper article about Bluffton University’s Sustainability Club. The students got a campus restaurant to ban non-biodegradable plastic straws, they are lobbying for food composting at the cafeteria, they are proposing an “Energy Savings Challenge” … Continue reading →
Our “Buckeye Back Roads Tour” continues… The following are a couple vignettes from the past several weeks: In a park in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, during a Little League Baseball game, I was passing out campaign cards between innings when one middle aged man … Continue reading →
This week I’ve been in touch with a representative from one of America’s newest political Parties, the Christian Democratic Party. Headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia, their literature explains that: “Chrisitan democracy” is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles … Continue reading →