Wait! What” Glenn Terry is retiring? Say it ain’t so. Great news. GNV isn’t done with flying pigs. Not by a long shot. There was some concern that last year’s third annual Flying Pigs Parade throug…

Tampa reimagined a derelict waterfront and created a place for people to live, work and play. John Lennon pointed the way. Which I thought was very nice of him. Lennon was loitering outside my hote…

In which my cycling/DEI cover is well and truly blown. My all time favorite reader complaint during my 30 years as Sun editorial page editor arrived in the form of a short and sweet e-mail. Ron Cun…

Trust me Driving Iceland’s Ring Road. What could possibly go wrong? So, long story short, we are in Iceland for a week or so. Depending on how life, the universe and everything turns out in the nex…

When I was in Madison last year I was delighted to learn that Wisconsin’s Capital City had an Official Bird. The lawn flamingo. This designation stemming from the infamous incident many years ago w…

“Ah Santorini!” Indiana Jones Having spent three days on this sparkling gem in the Agean Sea that was once almost reduced to atoms by an earthquake I am prepared to tell you everything you need to …

Cunningham! If you’re so damned critical of our wonderful state, why the hell don’t you just up and leave? Yeah, I’ve heard that before. The quick answer is that Connecticut doesn’t have cow-maulin…

Freedom on the cheap in this here Free State of Floriduh. Eat your heart out Readers Digest Wow! Hand it to Floriduh’s Board of Governors for reviving a lost art form. This from the Orlando Sentine…

As a trained observer of the human condition, there are some things I just gotta off my chest. *** Until just recently I’d never heard of Bad Bunny, and I still haven’t listened to his music. *** O…

Is there any law that will prevent me from declaring Pelican Island a Federal Bird Preserve? The answer was a very decided “No.” “Very well then. I So Declare It.” The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore …

Downtown GNV’s Streetery is a wonderful community space that gives people afoot primacy over cars. This weekend The Streetery kicked off a brand new tradition: A European style Winter Market that w…

But there’s somethin’ decidedly fishy about all this. Marco’s urge to font purge That’s it! No more Calibri in the State Department. Sec. Of State Marco Rubio’s “directive to all diplomatic posts a…

“A few days ago, a man I know, a chap from the north, asked me why I cared if the moss was sick, it’s only a damn pest, he said. I fancy myself a fairly reconstructed Southerner, but what I t…

People have been making pilgrimages, of one sort or another, to Lake Kerr – nestled in the heart of the Ocala National Forest – for a very, very long time. Fun fact: Marion County’s sec…

I have been seeking refuge in this piece of Florida paradise perched on the ocean’s edge for four decades. And it was wonderful to be back in Anastasia State Park for three quiet, restful days. Whe…

TR: “Have you still got the Three Friends?..Well. You ought to be mighty proud of her. If it had not been for the Three Friends, you would not be governor now.” NBB: “You ought to be proud of her y…

Well, GNV, nobody said it was gonna be easy. The ink on yesterday’s special City election was hardly dry before the Great DeSanitizer-appointed puppet GRU Authority filed an “emergency” motion to p…

News flash! Hastings is back. Not bigger or better than ever perhaps. But back and punching above its weight nonetheless. If you’ve ever driven from Palatka to St. Augustine you have passed through…

‘Starship for the Mind’: UF’s Malachowsky Hall an Epicenter for AI and Data Science: nvidia.com Continuing my never ending search for something like a life, I left home especially early for Saturda…