American Foundation for Suicide Prevention- rally and conference

I recently covered the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention's annual conference and rally at the US Capitol.

These are very kind, caring, and effective people.

They met and or were spoken to by a number of officials and experts, including Senators Senators Todd Young R-IN, Shelley Moore-Capito R-WV, Sheldon Whitehouse D-RI, Chris Coons D-DE, Catherine Cortez Matto D-NV, Jack Reed D-RI , Congressman Paul Tonko D-NY, former Congressman Patrick Kennedy, Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie, Sam Brinton of the Trevor Project, and media executive Tony Cornelius.

Thanks to John Madigan, Chelsey Dumond, and the rest of the professional staff at AFSP for the honor of being of service in this effort.

SkillsUSA 2019 / Kentucky

I just covered the National Leadership Skills Conference for SkillsUSA for my 33rd year. There were about 19,000 attendees in Louisville, Kentucky, where students who were medal winners in their states or US territories competed in their trade and skills areas. It's an amazing and energizing event.

Thanks to Tom Hall, Karen Kitzel, Tiffany Govender, Tom Kerchival, Jane DeShong Short, Craig Moore, and the rest of the crew for the opportunity to be of help.

We did it again.