His last night on Earth

A review of “The Mountaintop,” now playing at the Hippodrome Theater. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stumbles out of a…

Chasing Realtors

Note: This blog has been modified since its original posting to correct an error concerning school board rezoning. Let’s connect…

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.”…