Like most people I wear many different hats. I am a banker, a youth minister, a scholar, a writer, a husband, a father, a dreamer, a politician, a teacher... and so many other things.

I am the Channel Steward for Politics, News, and Issues and I am also a Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Citizen Journalist.

I am married and a father of three young children. I have written some poetry that has been published but is no longer in print.

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My areas of expertise include basic personal finance, the basics of investing, world politics, international relations, comparative religion, history, math, and philosophy.

I teach basic personal finance to teenagers in my youth group and I chair, and help run, a Model United Nations Conference here in Southwest Florida.

I love coffee. My dream is to open a coffee shop where I run a small financial planning office out of where I help people that normal financial planners won't touch, like that little old lady who needs help balancing her checkbook.

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God, youth ministry, wisdom and knowledge

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everything and nothing

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be president

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Knights of the Black and White

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Domino's pizza

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winning a debate scholarship

My inspiration ...

my wife and children

Politics, News & Issues > Pulitzer Center What is the responsibility of American companies and consumers for unsafe working conditions in Chinese factories?

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Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle cramps, convulsions, shock, kidney failure- all in a days work. These are the effects of cadmium exposure according to the US Department of Labor, and Chinese workers making common batteries routinely suffer from it. Just one example of unsafe working conditions is Chinese factories.

A hundred years ago American workers had very few protections and rights. Factory conditions were atrocious and death and disease were common.

Since that time working conditions in America have improved. Simple things that we take for granted today- things like pro...

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