Long story short: Nine hour plane ride from Orlando to Frankfurt. Three hours of tedium getting through security. Arrived in … More
Author: FreeGNV
Is it me or is it art?
Listen, I’m not an artist, but I have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express. If you handed me a canvas … More
Commissioners: Light this trail!
Installing lighting along a trail is another effective way to enable safe night use. Trail lighting that is well placed, … More
Well shut my mouth…again
Did I ever tell you how I ended up in GNV? Funny story. Well, serendipitous anyway. It was the early … More
Like a GNV neon rainbow
With apologies to the Box Tops. The city lights, the pretty lights They can warm the coldest nights All the … More
It was like picking money up off the ground
During my 30 years as editorial page editor of the Gainesville Sun I had a habit of calling myself a … More
Of war, peacemaking…and music
The war that changed their young lives forever has been over for half a century. But, improbably, their anti-war activism … More
Accomplice to the crime
Correction: An earlier version of this blog stated that the section of South Main Street where a cyclist was killed … More
What I saw on my Thanksgiving ramble around GNV
On a cool, gray Thanksgiving morning I mounted my bicycle in order to take stock of GNV as we approach … More
An explosion of color, creativity and enterprise
In a Gainesville Sun column earlier this year – back when The Sun was still publishing columns, letters to the … More
