Michael Venske

Participating in the Chicago Avenue Project was a huge highlight of 2012!

(CNN) — “An unexpected and sudden spotlight on the Special Olympics, an organization that for more than 40 years has served and honored those with intellectual disabilities, comes less than two weeks before the nonprofit launches a new campaign: Spread the Word to the End the Word.” Do me a favor and reread the bold [...]

This story on CNN talks about a wife that gave her husband a choice: become a pizza delivery man or the family “wouldn’t make it.” In reading the article, we learn that the husband works long hours delivering pizzas for $10 an hour and that the family adjusts their spending habits. As a former delivery [...]

By a show of hands, how many of you went shopping yesterday for Black Friday? And how many of you didn’t come back alive? At a Walmart in Long Island, New York, a store employee was killed and four others were injured. At a Toys “R” Us in Palm Desert, California, two men shot and [...]

RE: “Mailings”. While reading the same story at the Star Tribune website, I found this jem in the story’s comment section: “Companies paying printing charges and postage costs are being ripped off. Now if he had been throwing away all the political crap I was getting before the election I might agree that he did [...]