Africa: Why Billionaires should listen to local farmers, or just F... ... ....
I am sick of westerners know best,It has been proven wrong so many times.Who knows the best local farmers?If you want to help, work together. I recommend viewing the video in the link below.How...
View ArticleDon Murray and the Peace Corps, Part l
Don Murray’s career took off like a bull out of a rodeo gate, a perfect metaphor, considering his screen debut as the brash, unrelenting young cowboy Bo Decker, who woos and, eventually, wins Marilyn...
View ArticleFormer Peace Corps members organize relief effort for Atlas Mountains in Morocco
Many of the earthquake victims are in small villages high in the Atlas Mountains. This is a beautiful area that you’ve seen as background in car commercials, Bond films and Game of Thrones...
View ArticleA Student Loan Relief Proposal
Here is an idea for equitable student loan relief, one that is based upon a reciprocal notion of receipt and contribution necessary for a healthy society. It is a two-step proposal: A Baseline...
View ArticleWar College Shout Out for Peace Corps
Towards a Better Understanding of Other Peoples(Text link above)Podcast site:(Here)“How many of you who are going to be doctors, are willing to spend your days in Ghana? Technicians or engineers, how...
View ArticleDC riot police witness recounts harrowing experience: "F**k yeah, I was...
Former Peace Corps Response Volunteer Laura Dodson served in Duterte’s Philippines in a disaster zone, but it wasn’t until she protested peacefully in her nation’s capitol that she felt in danger of...
View ArticleTo Exit the Shutdown, Hire An Army Of Public Health Workers
The interventions we see reflect what we value ... experts weighed in ...REPUBLISHED BY PERMISSION: Anna Maria Barry-Jester forcaliforniahealthline.org <big>Last month,</big> facing the...
View ArticleMonday OT: March 2 is Texas Independence Day, heh
March 2 is day 62 of the Gregorian Calendar year, Setting Orange, Chaos 55, 3186 YOLD (Discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.7.5.14 by the Mayan Long Count
View ArticleButtigieg proposes vast expansion of national service programs
Democratic presidential candidate, and current South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg has unveiled his plan for a vastly expanded national service program. His plan, called "A New Call to Service" would...
View ArticleThere is a vote tomorrow on the elimination of Peace Corps funding
If you are not aware, there is a vote in Congress tomorrow that will end Peace Corps funding in FY2020. One of my great friends is a recently RPCV and their experience over the last two years has been...
View ArticleWhat I learned when I sent school supplies to Tonga
Where’s Tonga? That’s a question I had never before asked, until a young woman I know joined the Peace Corps, was assigned to the Kingdom of Tonga, and sent home desperate requests for basic school...
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Big Endorsement In My Race For OH-15!
This past week, I had the honor of being endorsed by my primary opponent — Rob Jarvis — in my race for Ohio’s 15th Congressional District.My primary opponent, Rob Jarvis, and I joined each other for...
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We Made History, Ohio
Last week, we made history here in Ohio.After the Primary Election results were tallied, our campaign earned over 60% of votes cast in Ohio’s 15th Congressional District, and I became the first...
View ArticleOH: Hi! I’m Rick Neal, Candidate for Congress in Ohio’s 15th District, and...
Hi there! My name is Rick Neal, and I’m a Democrat running for Congress in Ohio’s 15th Congressional District against incumbent Republican, former banking lobbyist, and NRCC Chair Steve Stivers. I just...
View ArticleNo love for the Peace Corps this 4th of July? A rant.
I wanted to take some time off of reading and writing stories of our Cheeto-hair-colored leader embarrassing himself and our nation as we approach the anniversary of our country declaring independence...
View ArticleMichelle Obama: 'Let Girls Learn.' Donald Trump: 'Nah.'
Michelle Obama helped to start and fiercely promoted the Peace Corps’“Let Girls Learn” program. Now, Donald Trump is ending it, at least as a branded program:While aspects of the initiative's...
View ArticleA Chance to Make a Clear and Immediate Difference
My cousin’s family is, granted, a bunch of overachievers. My cousin has a doctorate earned while raising three children, and before that spent two years in Africa in the Peace Corps — an act that...
View ArticleThe 13 Presidents Baby Boomers Have Lived Under -- #3 John Kennedy
I vaguely remember being in favor of Nixon over JFK, as an 11-year-old school boy living in London, England, in 1960. This was perhaps the outcome of being under the impression that my parents were...
View ArticleTake a Minute to Support the Peace Corps
The House of Representatives is scheduled to take up the State/Foreign Operations Appropriations bill (H.R. 3081) today. This bill will set the funding level for the Peace Corps in the next year....
View ArticleScience Diplomacy
Now there's a concept that didn't get any traction in the last administration. But as we have all heard, elections have consequences. And lucky for the planet, science as a consequence is coming on...
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