{"id":493,"date":"2005-10-03T14:39:46","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T14:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=353"},"modified":"2005-10-03T14:39:46","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T14:39:46","slug":"92901","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=493","title":{"rendered":"9\/29\/01"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spent yesterday working on a third book about Bluffton, Ohio titled: America’s Best Town 3<\/em>. Some say it would be hard to write one book about a town of 3,877 people, much less three. However, Bluffton merits it. If there was ever a place that was in line with our platform of what a town should be — social justice wise, environmental stewardship wise, community building wise… — it would be Bluffton. [For more on the other books about “America’s Best Town,” see the home page of this site.]… Stopped in Bowling Green, Ohio today where I talked with Mike McMaster, Education Coordinator for the Wood County Historical Center & Museum. On the property is an old Infirmary, also known as the “Poor House.” In the early part of the 1900s, McMaster said the poor, the sick, the elderly, the mentally ill… were all housed in an old brick building here — as they were in most counties across the country. I marvel at how far we’ve come since those days in helping these various populations in America. Besides being a journalist, I am also a former licensed social worker. And I have seen, first hand, some of the counseling sophistication that has developed to help the mentally ill, as an example. Comprehensive drug and alcohol treatment, state of the art psychotherapy techniques, and so on. Granted, we can always get better in each of these areas; but my hat is off to the many working in their various fields to help: the poor, the sick, the elderly, the mentally ill…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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