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.

Is this the future of news?

My piece about the rise of non-profit news organizations in Florida. Just published in the Fall issue of Forum magazine.

Mystery solved

Finally we know whose been pulling all the strings around here. This thanks to Gabe Kaimowitz upon launching his latest … More

Lessons of the seashells

Here’s my interview with Gainesville author Cynthia Barnett as published in the Fall 2021 issue of Forum magazine, a publication … More

So many questions

Listen, I gotta ask: 1. Now that City Manager Lee Feldman has resigned, do we have to keep calling everybody … More

Kant Faux goes lower

Seriously, is there anything UF President Kent Fuchs won’t do in the service of his beloved Gov. DeathSantis? Forbid faculty … More

Oh never mind

What if they had a litigation and one party ate its homework? Ok, so an attorney representing Gainesville was present … More

What? Again?

All roads may well lead to Rome. But when it comes to actually paying for them, roads mostly lead nowhere … More

Reset the hard way

Commissioners keep saying we need to do a “reset” at City Hall. We can do an easy reset or a … More

Between the (head)lines

These days it doesn’t take too much reading between the lines to figure out that the human experiment has gone … More