I provide my usual and all-too-often needed apologies for being a less-than-stellar blogger.
This post is a mixed-bag of stuff that’s been floating around my head these few weeks.
The race for Jacksonville’s City Council
There hasn’t been much public campaigning. Mr. Hunter Hadley, Jr (At-Large) has yard signs posted. Councilwoman Reva Sullivan (Ward 2) is hosting [...]
My week is almost over. I’m off tomorrow at Noon until Monday. So, yays for me.
If you thought recent dramas in Jacksonville were over, you were wrong. The folks at Americans for Prosperity have attacked Mr. Phillip Cherry (Director of the Onslow County Library System) for sending out an email requesting citizens speak at a [...]
Earlier this week (I think it was Tuesday or Wednesday morning) I was bicycling to work and had this flitting thought:
I haven’t heard the names “Joe McLaughlin” or “Delma Collins” in a while. Isn’t that nice?"
And it was, it was very nice…But it wasn’t to last very long. Follow the jump for details.
Ms. Steinfeld recently wrote a guest post at Thordora’s Spin Me I Pulsate blog.
The subject of her post, cyber stalking, is something I’ve never had to deal with, as I have always written online by my given name. I do so for two reasons:
I believe it lends more creditibility to my writing
It requires that I [...]
Mr. Quinn’s response is below, in its entirety, since it’s not available on the Jacksonville Daily News’ website.
Community’s needs greater than bridge To the editor: In his Jan. 8 letter to the editor headlined, “More use of bridge than some claim,” Thomas Brock acknowledges [...]
The below is the text of a letter to the editor of the Jacksonville Daily News regarding this article.
Dear Editor,
The January 6th, 2009 edition of the Jacksonville Daily News featured an article titled “Rails-to-Trails bridge earns state engineering award”. This article unfairly portrays the Rails-to-Trails project, and the associated pedestrian bridge, as unused and unpopular [...]
According to the Raleigh News and Observer’s political blog, Under the Dome, the N.C. Metropolitan Mayors Coalition has submitted their wish-list for federal stimulus money. The list includes projects for the infrastructure improvements in Jacksonville which total over $11 million.
The full list is below:
Cold Patch Asphalt Storage
$ 80,000
Red Oak Culvert Replacement
$ 200,000
FY [...]
The Jacksonville Daily News website has a poll related to the Register of Deeds pay controversy. Go vote. It’s fun.
It appears that the Onslow County Board of Commissioners has no interest in discussing Becky Pollard’s pay during their December 15th meeting.
Says Commission Chairman W.C. Jarman:
"It is not on the tentative agenda and as far [...]
Even before Ms. Becky Pollard was sworn in as Onslow County’s Register of Deeds, her husband, former State Senator and former member of the NC Department of Transportation Board, Tommy Pollard was lobbying the Onslow County Board of Commissioners to give his wife a raise.
Lindell Kay reports in the Jacksonville Daily News:
Tommy Pollard passed out [...]
(Note from Thomas Brock: What follows is a guest post from Lindell Kay. Read more of Lindell’s writing at the Jacksonville Daily News and at his blog, Off the Cuff.)
My father, soon to be 79, has only one testicle. He has never disclosed to me exactly how that came about. In fact, it took me [...]
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