Never doubt: Remembering Peggy Snyder

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead

——- Original Message ——– Subject: engineer who may be able to help Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:17:21 -0500 From: Peggy Snyder <deleted @verizon.net> To: Scott Olson <deleted […]

Two words: Freakin’ awesome!

This is what honesty, hard work, and thoughtful public policy gets you! Congrats Jimmy & Marie – so proud of you guys tonight! Onward, friends!

Twelve Years

Since October of 2001, I have worn this band to honor the memory of Yuji Goya, a 42-year-old Japanese national, husband, father of two, and vice-president of Mizuho Capital Markets Corporation, located on the 80th floor of Two World Trade Center.

On September 11, 2001, as the North Tower of the World Trade Center burned […]

Four more years, please!

I just received this press release from my good friends and fellow Byram Township elected officials Jim Oscovitch and Marie Raffay, and I am thrilled beyond words. Two of the most honest, sincere, hard working people you could ever meet! I’m proud to call them my friends and look forward to supporting their efforts in […]

‘Star Spangled Banjo at the Grand Canyon’ via Josh Fox (@gaslandmovie)

Star Spangled Banjo at the Grand Canyon from JFOX on Vimeo.

Remembering Ella Filippone

“…the river is a toxic disgrace that needs to be cleaned up. ‘It’s government at its worst,’ she said.” — New York Times, July 12, 2009

Ella Filippone(1935-2013)

I’m going to get right to the point here. That’s how Ella would have wanted it.

Ella Filippone was one tough broad, not afraid to […]

“I’m going to take a look one more time…”

“…I’m not going to see this again.”

For me, these 30 seconds say as much about the man as his entire 18-minute Inaugural speech. And the speech was incredible!

His face goes from pensive to a glowing, knowing smile with a twinkle in his eyes. Watch.

“You and I, as citizens, have the power […]

“We are at a crossroads”

McGovern as Food for Peace director in 1961, with President John F. Kennedy.

“I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie,” he said in an interview for this obituary in 2005 in his home in Mitchell. “My dad was a […]