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Onslow County Politics: Joe McLaughlin Returns…

to ruin my holiday.
Why can’t he just admit that he lost, admit that his political career is over (much like his financial management career, I hear) and go away?
What is it with NC-03 candidates? Between McLaughlin and Weber, we must be the laughing stock of all the nation!

2009 Elections: JDNews Candidate Profiles Available

The Jacksonville Daily News has posted profiles of the candidates for Jacksonville City Council. For your convenience, I’ve linked the individual profiles below (The JDNews page is a bit squirrelly and quiet a bit confusing…)
Incumbents:

Reva Sullivan (Onslow) (Ward 2)
Randy Thomas (Onslow) (At Large)
Alva M. Williams (Onslow) (At Large)
Jerome Willingham (Onslow) (Ward 1)

Challengers:

Jerry A. Bittner (Onslow) [...]

An Assortment of Dissociated and Disjointed Thoughts

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 [...]

Tuesday Tidbits

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 [...]

City of Jacksonville: Updates on the Council in Crisis

The Jacksonville City Council is still reeling from the aftershocks of the 4-2 vote to dismiss former City Manager Kristoff Bauer and revelation that Council-member Reva Sullivan may have been attempting to contact him inappropriately.
Bauer wrote a letter to the editor of the Jacksonville Daily News declaring his intent to waive any right to [...]

City of Jacksonville: Management in Crisis

Jacksonville’s former City Manager, Kristoff Bauer, was fired in a 4-2 (Jerome Willingham, Reva Sullivan, Alva Williams and Randy Thomas for, Michael Lazzara and Fannie Coleman against, Sammy Phillips, as Mayor, only votes in ties) vote on June 9th.
After the firing, there was quite the bit of backlash from city employees and residents.
City Employees [...]

Car-Free: It’s Been an Incidental Sort of Week

The week was full of incidents and accidents. Only one involved me directly, though.
During last week’s DownEast Cyclist Club meeting, I heard that one of the bicyclists that routinely ride the Jacksonville Rails-to-Trails multi-use path had been involved in a nasty crash along the fenced area of Highway 24/Lejeune Blvd near the Camp Lejeune [...]

City of Jacksonville: Trails and Greenways Commission Meeting: March 16th Notes

The agenda for this month’s Trails and Greenways Commission meeting is here.
Notes and results follow:
The Commission unanimously approved the minutes for the December 08 meeting.
Mr. Chris Lukasina (administrator for the Jacksonville Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization) provided a presentation on JUMPO’s efforts in transportation planning. He touched on the status of the Comprehensive Bicyclist and [...]

Onslow County Politics: Joe McLaughlin Killed My Buzz

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.

Pedestrian Killed on Western Blvd

Ms. Talissa Hatchell (16) after being hit by a car at approximately 9:30am on Monday, February 2nd, 2009. Ms. Hatchell was attempting to cross Western Blvd (a major thoroughfare in Jacksonville which has 7 lanes of traffic, no crosswalks and few sidewalks along it’s length) to get to the McDonald’s restaurant near the intersection of [...]

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