Since Jacksonville’s Rails-to-Trail path opened in 2008, its detractors have said that the path was not safe, that it would allow criminals to walk from Downtown through the Bellfork Homes area on Bellfork Road and along the Camp Lejeune housing areas of Tarawa Terrace across Highway 24. These detractors couldn’t be more wrong. The Jacksonville [...]
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 [...]
I emailed questions to all the candidates and incumbents for Jacksonville City Council. Below are the answers from Mr. James Bryan (At Large). The answers are cut and pasted directly from the email and contain no altering of text, except for format (bulletized the questions and indented the answers). -Water is becoming a less plentiful, [...]
I emailed questions to all the candidates and incumbents for Jacksonville City Council. Below is the response from Bob Warden (At Large). The response is cut and pasted directly from the email and contain no altering of text. I’m responding to this because I’ve heard that your blogs are balanced. I’ve read several comments on [...]
I emailed questions to all the candidates and incumbents for Jacksonville City Council. Mr. O’Connor has not submitted answers, but I did speak with him briefly on the telephone today. Below is a quick synopsis of our conversation. Mr. O’Connor believes in taking government “back to basics”, meaning providing the primary services (police, fire, water, [...]
Onslow Memorial Hospital (Twitter, Facebook) is seeking to pay mommy-bloggers and not offering equal opportunities to dads. It’s a move I’ve called sexist, ignorant and foolish. Certainly, moms have a particular perspective on raising children. Certainly, in Jacksonville and Onslow County moms have to deal with particular issues that other moms (you know, the non-married-to-military [...]
The filing deadline for 2009’s municipal election has passed and the final listing of candidates is available at the Onslow County Board of Elections site. The incumbents: Jerome Willingham (Ward 1) Reva Sullivan (Ward 2) Alva Williams (At-Large) Randy Thomas (At-Large) The challengers: Jerry Bittner (Ward 2) Hunter Hadley, Jr. (At-Large) Robert Warden (At-Large) James [...]
AM and I recently purchased a new PC (actually, all I did was recommend a PC, she did all the purchasing) at our local Best Buy (Store 805, which is also available on Twitter). I’ll summarize the adventures. If you want details, follow the jump. We needed a new PC. We wanted a Dell, but [...]
Candidate filing for the 2009 municipal elections will begin Monday, July 6th and end at Noon on Friday, July 17th. Filing fees (MS Excel) and more information on the municipal elections is available at the Onslow County Board of Elections website. There are four seats (Willingham Ward 1, Sullivan Ward 2, Thomas (At-Large) and Williams [...]
The City of Jacksonville’s Trails and Greenways, Parks and Recreations and Beautification and Appearance commissions met Monday, May 18th for their annual joint meeting. The agenda is here. All commissions previous meeting minutes were approved. The chairmen of each commission made reports on each the actions of each commission: Parks and Recreation: Work on the [...]
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