Bloviations

I suppose there’s value in that about 70% of the editorials come from their Freedom Communications, INC overlords, (this editorial borrows heavily from this one) but

August 21st, 2010 | Tags: Economy, Freedom Communications INC, Freedom ENC, Jacksonville Daily News, Politics | Category: Economy, Freedom ENC Communications, INC, Jacksonville Daily News, News, Politics | Leave a comment

Joel Roberson, Jr. was killed at Jacksonville’s Western Blvd intersection with Gateway North early on an April morning as he was bicycling to his job at a local McDonald’s. Roberson was riding on the roadway’s shoulder, right of the fog line,  and was doing everything right. Marine Sergeant Bryan Gullett, of MCAS New River’s VMMT-204 Osprey [...]

August 11th, 2010 | Tags: Bicycle, bicycle advocacy, Bryan Gullett, Death by Motor Vehicle, Jacksonville, Jacksonville Daily News, Jacksonville Police Department, Joel Roberson Jr, Justice, NC | Category: Activism, Bicycling, Commuting, Jacksonville City Police Department, Jacksonville Daily News, Jacksonville, NC, Justice, News, Onslow County, NC | Comments (1)

The Jacksonville Daily News has published a letter to the editor I sent regarding Mike McHugh’s column on gasoline prices in the Jacksonville-Swansboro-Onslow County area. You can read the letter below or visit the Jacksonville Daily News’ version, but be sure to read McHugh’s column first. Disagree with my letter? Support it? Let me know [...]

June 13th, 2010 | Tags: Activism, Alternative Transportation, Commuting, Economy, Environment, Free market fundamentalists, Freedom ENC Communications, Jacksonville Daily News, Jacksonville Transit, Jacksonville, NC, Letters to the Editor, Libertarians, Mainstream Media, Mike McHugh | Category: Activism, Alternative Transportation, Commuting, Economy, Environment, Free market fundamentalists, Freedom ENC Communications, INC, Jacksonville Daily News, Jacksonville Transit, Jacksonville, NC, Letters to the Edtor, Libertarians, Mainstream Media | Leave a comment

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) [...]

October 12th, 2009 | Tags: 2009 Elections, Alva Williams, Hunter Hadley Jr, Jacksonville City Council, Jacksonville Daily News, James Bryan, Jerome Willingham, Jerry Bittner, Kevin O'Connor, Lori Ready, Randy Thomas, Reva Sullivan, Robert Warden | Category: 2009 Elections, Alva Williams, City of Jacksonville NC, Hunter Hadley, Jr, Jacksonville City Council, Jacksonville Daily News, James Bryan, Jerome Willingham, Jerry Bittner, Kevin O'Connor, Lori Ready, Randy Thomas, Reva Sullivan, Robert Warden | Comments (1)

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) [...]

September 3rd, 2009 | Tags: 2009 Elections, Alva Williams, Bicycle Commuting, Bicycling, City of Jacksonville NC, City of Jacksonville Recreation and Parks Department, City of Jacksonville Trails and Greenways Commission, Freedom ENC Communications, Hunter Hadley Jr, Jacksonville Daily News, James Bryan, Libertarians, Reva Sullivan | Category: 2009 Elections, Alva Williams, Bicycling, Blog Navel-Gazing, Car-Free, City of Jacksonville NC, Freedom ENC Communications, INC, Hunter Hadley, Jr, Jacksonville City Council, Jacksonville Daily News, Jacksonville, NC, James Bryan, Libertarians, Recreation and Parks Commission, Reva Sullivan, Trails and Greenways Commission | Comments (3)

The Jacksonville Daily News has the bead on all the local fireworks displays for today. While you’re reading online, go ahead and give the Declaration of Independence a read and think about what it means and what the founders of our nation had in mind when they wrote it. Happy Independence Day, Americans. Enjoy it, [...]

July 4th, 2009 | Tags: Declaration of Independence, Independence Day, Independence Day 2009, Jacksonville Daily News | Category: Open Thread | Leave a comment

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 [...]

June 30th, 2009 | Tags: 2009 Elections, 2010 Elections, Americans for Prosperity, Freedom ENC Communications, Havelock News, Jacksonville Daily News, Kinston Free Press, New Bern Sun Journal, Onslow County Board of Education, Onslow County Library System, Onslow County Politics, Onslow County, NC, Phillip Cherry | Category: 2009 Elections, 2010 Elections, Economy, Free market fundamentalists, Freedom ENC Communications, INC, Jacksonville Daily News, Kinston Free Press, Mainstream Media, New Bern Sun Journal, Onslow County, Onslow County Board of Education, Onslow County Politics, Onslow County, NC, Open Thread, Politics | Leave a comment

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 [...]

June 20th, 2009 | Tags: 2009 Elections, Alva Williams, City of Jacksonville NC, Horace Mann, Jacksonvile City Council, Jacksonville, Jacksonville City Manager, Jacksonville Daily News, Jerome Willingham, Kristoff Bauer, NC, Onslow County Politics, Randy Thomas, Reva Sullivan | Category: 2010 Elections, Alva Williams, City of Jacksonville NC, Fannie K. Coleman, Horace Mann, Jacksonville City Council, Jacksonville Daily News, Jacksonville, NC, Jerome Willingham, Michael Lazzara, Randy Thomas, Reva Sullivan, Sammy Phillips | Comments (3)

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 [...]

April 17th, 2009 | Tags: Activism, Bicycle Commuting, Bicycling, Car-Free, car-free commuting, City of Jacksonville NC, Dewey Hudson, DownEast Cyclists, Jacksonville Daily News, Lindell Kay, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, Mike McHugh | Category: Activism, Bicycling, Camp Lejeune, NC, Car-Free, City of Jacksonville NC, Commuting, Jacksonville Daily News, Jacksonville, NC | Comments (2)