Through an urban mirror

Listening, maybe it’s a result of living so long in a bucolic university city, but I’ve always been fascinated with…

Oh the things I saw

Jill and I are visiting my daughter in Bethesda this weekend. I managed to duck out of a day of…

The vision thing

Pegeen Hanrahan was working in the county environmental protection office when Gainesville Regional Utilities bought the old Gainesville Gas Company.…

Oh sure, blame us

Why us world? I just want to know when The Sunshine State became the Scapegoat State. Blame Florida for screwing…

Good enough for GNV?

In regard to the proposed redesigning of University Avenue: Ten years from now, maybe sooner, Gainesville will regret that we…

Shades of Sebastian

Things I saw on my bike ride from Barefoot Bay to Sebastian. (Or really cool things you can do with…

Bagging the depredators

Apparently the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission may increase the bag limit on black tip sharks because…..they are “depredators.”…

GNV’s Greek Chorus

In the 1983 film “Local Hero” Burt Lancaster is a Texas oil billionaire with issues. Who hires an aversion therapist…