The Columbus Dispatch reported yesterday about the myriad challenges faced by the Ohio Department of Health in its current overhaul of the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) nutrition program. The overhaul hopes to increase access to fresh and nutritious foods for the 300,000 Ohioans who receive the WIC benefits, but in so doing may have made [...]
Entries from November 2009
November 14, 2009
How Firm Thy Friendship
Photo by Rogue Photo, Flickr My #11 Ohio State Buckeyes face #10 Iowa Hawkeyes for the Big-10 title today at 3:30 p.m. Apart from pre-season play against USC, this will be their biggest test of the season. Let’s hope Cincinnati’s win over West Virginia last night bodes well for Ohio football this weekend. The Bengals [...]
November 11, 2009
Food where once was nothing
This was originally posted at growfoodgrowhope.com, but it’s general enough to be posted here as well. All ‘we’s or ‘us’s refer to Grow Food, Grow Hope. The surge in popularity of urban agriculture is still growing around the country, with once-booming metropolitan areas rediscovering their agrarian roots and realizing the potential of unused land. Detroit [...]
November 5, 2009
The Last Truck
Last night I had the opportunity to watch a screening on campus of a powerful documentary, shot in nearby Moraine, Ohio, which chronicles the last months of the General Motors plant there as it faced closure. “The Last Truck” was co-written and directed by two-time Oscar nominee and Wright State University film professor Julia Reichert, [...]
November 1, 2009
Piece by piece
I’m slowly piecing this site together with clips and photographs I’ve written and taken over the years, and it’s teetering toward presentable. I stumbled across a lantern.com archive a few weeks ago which had everything I ever wrote and produced there archived. That made the task of uploading clips so much easier, and I just [...]
November 1, 2009
johncropper.net
I’ve moved. In an effort to consolidate all of my personal and professional writings into one site, I created johncropper.net, where I’ll be writing from now on. Eventually I’ll have this page re-route there, but I wanted to give some heads up first. Word.
