A personal notebook
Thoughts, notes, and ideas.
Writing about whatever I’m trying to understand.
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Day 40 – Ohio Prison Facts – On The Road To Mayor
I just got back from the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield. We’re spending the weekend camping at the Shelby / Mansfield KOA. The movie Shawshank Redemption was filmed there. Look at this graph…
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Day 39 – Nextdoor – On The Road To Mayor
I had a great conversation today with a resident of Cuyahoga Falls. She said that their mayor suggested everyone in Cuyahoga Falls go meet their neighbor. What a great idea! She told two stories…
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Day 38 – All Hail Wealthy Donors & Power Mongers! – On The Road To Mayor
Money and politics. This is the great corruption of America. Money buys political favors: You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours. Find great political power and I guarantee you will find money hovering…
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Legalized Squatting & Tent Cities
The International Squaters Symbol Homelessness is a very real problem in Akron. If you have a better way of solving it I’m all ears. But I have an idea: What if prequalified…
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Day 37 – Competition – On The Road To Mayor
I just got back from Eddie Sipplen‘s fundraiser event. (For the record, those trying to keep me off the ballot, I didn’t donate to him. So you can’t try to corner me as…
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Plastic Roads
Dutch company, VolkerWessels, has recently come out with a new concept: PlasticRoad. As the Rubber Capital of the World and the Polymer Capital of the World we should be leading this initiative. Akron should be the…
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Day 36 – Doubt – On The Road To Mayor
In the drug world there is something called Suicide Tuesday. It typically happens after a wild Saturday night of partying. Tuesday is the day when it all comes crashing down around you. The…
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Day 35 – Auctions – On The Road To Mayor
Based on this blog, you might be surprised to know that I actually run several businesses. SageRock is my bread and butter. It’s a digital marketing agency that my wife, Rocky, and I…
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Day 34 – Getting My Voice – On The Road To Mayor
When I started this journey my position was to give the people of Akron an alternative to the status quo. To the good-old-boy club of Akron Democrats. But saying, “If you don’t like…
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Day 33 – How Can You Be Mayor If You Don’t Know That? – On The Road To Mayor
That was my niece’s response when I asked her if they still made juice boxes. “How can you be mayor if you don’t know if they still make juice boxes?” I get that…
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Day 32 – Who I WISH Was Running For Mayor – On The Road To Mayor
I’m not sure what I thought other candidates would be like when I got into this race. But I’m pretty sure it’s not what I’m finding. From what I can see, there are 2…
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Day 31 – Getting To Me – On The Road to Akron Mayor
If you’ve been following along you probably know I’ve been spending an increasing amount of time in front of Angel Falls Coffee Shop here in Akron. I spend a couple hours nearly every…