The author lives in Indiana with his wife and son on four and a half wooded acres. A graduate of the University of Chicago and Loyola University, his career has been in local government, city and county, CEO of a physical therapy clinic, and as a consultant to a not for profit. He has had experience in private enterprise over a number of different sectors. He is an Independent Democrat who is a program liberal and a fiscal conservative. A close observer of human nature, he believes in people as the bedrock of the political process. He believes, also, in Lord Acton’s famous maxim.