Long story short: Nine hour plane ride from Orlando to Frankfurt. Three hours of tedium getting through security. Arrived in … More

Listen, I’m not an artist, but I have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express. If you handed me a canvas … More

Installing lighting along a trail is another effective way to enable safe night use. Trail lighting that is well placed, … More

Did I ever tell you how I ended up in GNV? Funny story. Well, serendipitous anyway. It was the early … More

With apologies to the Box Tops. The city lights, the pretty lights They can warm the coldest nights All the … More

During my 30 years as editorial page editor of the Gainesville Sun I had a habit of calling myself a … More

The war that changed their young lives forever has been over for half a century. But, improbably, their anti-war activism … More

Correction: An earlier version of this blog stated that the section of South Main Street where a cyclist was killed … More

On a cool, gray Thanksgiving morning I mounted my bicycle in order to take stock of GNV as we approach … More

In a Gainesville Sun column earlier this year – back when The Sun was still publishing columns, letters to the … More