What happened to that morning coffee moment where your thoughts were filled with what to make for Sunday dinner, was your fishing license expired, or what to do for your spouses upcoming birthday?  Though your world was not perfect it was your world and that was o.k.



     Or at least it was until early in 2008; sitting in my kayak on Trout Creek hoping to catch a nice bass or at least a decent crappie, wondering…

Office Depot and ICLEI USA Launch National Green Business Challenge with Cities Across the Country

Innovative Program Helps Local Governments Engage Business Communities in Going Greener; Four New Challengers to Be Announced at the NYSE Closing Bell on April 21

BOCA RATON, Fla., Apr 20, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) --

Office Depot (NYSE:ODP), celebrating 25 years as a leading global provider of office…

Back in September when Jenna resigned as the office manager, I thought this would be a great opportunity. However, I quickly found it difficult to juggle research and other efforts I was involved in and have time left for my family.  After less than a week I called several friends to say I didn’t think I would be able to handle working at the office in addition to my other endeavors.  This weighed heavy on my mind for several days then one morning on my way to work as I turned on the radio I…

If you are asking what a smart meter is, please sit down for the following video explanation as it will most likely make you sick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JNFr_j6kdI

Here is a picture of the smart meter on my home.  It was installed when the house was in escrow for sale, so neither the buyer, me, nor the seller knew.  Notice the FCC ID area, this indicates that it is transmitting…

Constitution Signer

Pierce Butler

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Pierce Butler - soldier, statesman, businessman and father.

Pierce Butler was born in Ireland in July 11, 1744 and came to America as a teenage British Army office at age 14. He had two older brothers and one younger.

At 28, in 1772 he had…

Paul Senft

Republican National Committeeman From Florida





Why Moving Florida's Presidential Primary



To January 31, 2012 Hurts Our State

HERE FOLLOWS THE SUMMARY:

Our full allotment of delegates is: 99

After the three officers are removed our base becomes: 96

Cutting us as the penalty, we get only: 48

With the total delegates available in the six or seven…

Constitution Signer

Charles Pinckney

By Bill Korach

Charles Pinckney was born in Charleston, South Carolina. His father, Colonel Charles Pinckney, was a rich…

Constitution Signer

Richard Bassett

            Richard Bassett was born in 1745 at Cecil County, Maryland.  After his tavern-keeper father left his mother, he was raised by a relative, Peter Lawson.  He studied law under Judge Robert Goldsborough and in 1770 received a license to practice in Dover, DE.

As well as practicing law, Bassett was also a planter and…

Constitution Signers

Roger Sherman

By Bill Korach

Sherman was born on April 19, 1721 in Newton, Massachusetts near Boston, Sherman's education did not extend beyond his father's library and grammar school, and his early career was spent as a shoe-maker. However, he was…

Constitution Signer

George Washington

            George Washington was born February 22, 1732 at Ferry Farm in Fredricksburg, Virginia to a farmer and landowner, Augustine.  His father died when George was eleven years old.  He then was educated by his mother, half-brother, and the Fairfaxes.  George occupations consisted of farmer, surveyor,…

The following information is correspondence between city council and constituents with regards to the budget cuts.  Let it be known that the library is lobbying heavily against cutting their budget and Council member Crescimbeni is on the board of directors for the "Friends of the Jacksonville Public Library, Inc." 

There is no agenda in posting this information other than to present a transparent process, disclosure of associations, to Duval citizens as well as the pro and con of the…

Constitution Signer

John Dickinson

            John Dickinson was born November 8, 1732 in Talbot City, Maryland to Samuel Dickinson, a prosperous farmer, and his second wife, Mary. 

In 1750 he began to study law with John Moland in Philadelphia.  In 1760 he served in the Delaware assembly, was the Philadelphia member of the Pennsylvania assembly (1762-1764), and was…

Constitution Signer

John Blair, Jr.

1731-1800

John Blair, Jr. was instrumental in bringing about the independence of our nation through the judicial system. Born in Williamsburg, Virginia in 1731, Blair was a member of a prominent Virginia family. His father, John Blair, Sr. served as the Royal Governor and his grand-uncle was the founder of the College of William and Mary where Blair received his A.B.…

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James Madison, Jr.

By Bill Korach

James Madison, Jr. was born at Belle Grove Plantation near Port Conway, Virginia on March 16, 1751. He…

Constitution Signer

Jacob Broom

            Jacob Broom was born in 1752 in Wilmington, Delaware.  He was the eldest son of a blacksmith who prospered in farming.  After receiving his education at Wilmington's Old Academy he became a farmer, a surveyor, and a local businessman where he dealt in public security interests, lending and investments, mercantile, manufacturing,…

Constitution Signer

Bedford Gunning Jr.

            Gunning Bedford, Jr. was born in 1747 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  After studying law with Joseph Read in Philadelphia, he was admitted to the bar and moved to Dover, Delaware.

Bedford served in the Revolutionary War, possibly as an aide to General Washington.  After the

war…

On September 28^th last year, hundreds of Duval citizens gathered in city council chambers and participated in a marathon budget vote lasting into the wee hours of the morning with many of our council members voting to raise your taxes.  It is once again that time of year and on September 27^th, city council will undertake this task again; déjà vu.

However, there is a difference between last year and this year.  Last year First Coast Tea Party members…

Constitution Signers

Gouverneur Morris

By Bill Korach

 Gouverneur Morris was born on January 31, 1752 on a King’s grant estate on what is now the Bronx. Despite his unusual first name, he was not a governor, but he did come from an upper class family descended from Welsh soldiers. He was a gifted scholar, and remarkably precocious. He entered Kings College, later renamed Columbia…

Phone Florida Membership on U.S. House Judiciary Committee to Pass Lamar Smith's E-Verify Bill 'Markup' Starts Today On Bill To Fire Illegal-Alien Workers & Put Millions of Americans Back to Work

We need the phones ringing off the hook to ensure that the Judiciary Members know there is a lot…