Last Friday, I was able to do something that had been in works since this past summer. 46 students from the Fredericksburg Boys & Girls were able to go to the NEWSEUM in DC. Watch for the article in Tuesday’s City and Spotsy Extra in the FLS.Rebecc…
Matt Kelly, one of the city council members, started a post over at his blog Question Everything. Eric Martin and I posted comments to the article, and Matt challenged us with the following questions (noted by ‘q’). See my answers here, crossposted fro…
For those that have been reading the blog regularly, you will remember that last week I purchased a new Nikon D90 digital SLR. This was a significant upgrade from the Canon that had been used to publish this blog. Although I still carry the Canon every…
damn it(most reserved post ever)[update 7:29] City Beat, and FLS reporter Emily Battle reports that it was unanimous. Sooo… the phone call I received from one of those voters gave me wrong information? My question had been “how did the vote go” to wh…
Tonight Gail and I set out to have an early dinner to start our weekend. We quickly settled on Claiborne’s when they were able get us a table at 6pm. When we arrived, we were surprised that they are having a great special until the end of September. …
FREE FREE FREE, how often do you hear that these days? Especially around here were there seems to be a cover or gate fee for just about every event. Well I have it here folks, an event that you can get into for free. I’m sure there will be tons of thin…
For those of us yearning for unique city reporting last year, watching The Bullet transition from university hosting to the FLS backend was painful at best. Somewhere in there, it seemed that the reporting tailed off, and even though there were incredi…
It has taken 6 months of writting stories on the blackberry while riding the train, or staying up late after council meetings, but this is my 200th post. (ok, you can’t read several because I chose after finishing not to publish several stories.) In t…
Those of us vying for a position on city council will have to wait a few extra days before going in for the panel style interviews. Originally scheduled for Thursday Sept 11th, they are now going to be at 6pm on Tuesday the 16th. The following night on…
With a baby on the way and the blog popularity rising, the other month I started looking for a digital SLR. I thought I had made my decision, when Nikon releases the press release on their new D90. This dslr has the sensor of a pro camera, but with a …
