By declaring a traffic violence crisis Gainesville and Alachua County got our attention. Now what? Well, among other things, Mayor … More
Author: FreeGNV
Ron Cunningham is a sometime journalist who used to string words together at the Gainesville Sun before I retired to free lance and blog. If I still had a business card it would read: Ron Cunningham: Trained Observer Of The Human Condition. Because like The Donald, you know, ego.
A hot sauce, two Gator engineering grads and the final frontier
I wrote this piece for The Sun. This is why living in GNV is so cool. A funny thing happened … More
GNV’s birthplace is getting a face lift
This is a piece I wrote for the Gainesville Sun. From a news item that appeared in the Gainesville Daily … More
Stopping by Depot Park pond on a frosty Florida winter’s evening
Ok, I’m no Robert Frost. I neither have promises to keep nor miles to go before I sleep. Personally, my … More
Pink Floyd meets the Great Sanitizer
So I gotta admit. When The Donald christened our fair-haired governor Ron DeSanctimonious I was jealous. Shoulda thought of that … More
No GNV techie is an island unto himself
One of the reasons I love this town is that we are a little blue island in a vast sea … More
Robert L. Knight: Time to reclaim the Ocklawaha’s lost springs
Editor’s note: Since the Sun, um, phased out opinion content, we (by which I mean me) here at Free GNV … More
Big changes coming to University Avenue
The following is a press release from the City of Gainesville announcing an $8 million federal grant to help turn … More
To all my friends, followers and ships at sea
That’s right. All three of you. When I began this blog, several years ago, I concocted the most preposterous blog … More
Pork and pickles and cheeses and fungi and coconuts and water buffalo and baubles oh my!
Time flies when you are building a neighborhood institution. Three years ago Monica Albert organized a farmer’s market in her … More
