Walking to Cleveland: Part one of four

"I'm walking to Cleveland, the city, so I can talk to people along the way about what their hopes and dreams are for the country. There's a big gathering of people there, called the Republican National Convention, and they are about to elect Donald Trump to be their presidential candidate. He's said some real nasty things about some people and I want to know if they're true and if other people believe them too."

2016-07-17T11:27:36-04:00July 6, 2016|

RNC Watch

  So many questions linger, as the convention looms. ... Mother Jones asks, Are Police Targeting Black Lives Matters Activists [...]

2016-07-06T16:25:02-04:00July 1, 2016|

Chasing The Ghosts Of Coventry Village

Late May, the cusp of summer, I glide down the brushy side streets of Cleveland Heights. My bicycle jiggles over the occasional stretch of brick road, reminding me that pavement was originally invented to make biking easier.

2016-07-07T13:33:57-04:00June 30, 2016|

RNC Watch

OK, let's be real. No one in Cleveland was thinking about the RNC this week. But now that the tickertape's [...]

2016-07-06T16:26:17-04:00June 24, 2016|

Hail to the King

I was born in Akron. My deathbed request for a final meal would be a Swenson’s Galley Boy, and I’d wash it down with a California. My grandfather retired from the Firestone Tire Factory and as a kid I worked for Goodyear ...

2018-10-26T16:04:00-04:00June 22, 2016|