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I thought it was just a fluke when I showed up to Woodstock Park and it looked like a farm field fit for a concert rather than a baseba...

I saw my first Amazon Locker at a Speedway on Merril by the 295, and I was wondering what these electronic lockers are for. Instead of ...

I was searching for this website by using terms that had to do with funny news stories in Jax, but then I realized that I'd never rea...

I'm not sure who Artesians are, but they played a role in building the newest ship that will be stationed at Mayport. Perhaps they are p...

I don't think I'm currently licensed in Wisconsin as a teacher anymore. However, I'm not entirely sure, since Governor Scott W...

A local news story goes something like this: girl is injured in gym class; girl gets ice for her wrist; girl shows up at home hours later;...

Someone reading New Jax Witty, and maybe even perusing some of my other content online, might ask whether this is all for real. Am I just ...

Ah, Rome. I was there back in 1999, and it was a treasured three days. The architecture, the art, the history, and the awful smell of air ...

I've made my argument against pit bulls . I don't like the dogs, and I don't like them living near me. Kind of like alligators...

I've seen plenty of cars with fog lights burned out, and a decent number with headlights out. Maybe fewer with brake lights out, but y...

I've written about how we don't need another gas station on Kernan and McCormick. I've even suggested a few options that woul...

I read a lot of news online. I'm not unique, either. People are always reading their news feeds for weather, traffic, sports, and othe...

A street in Jax - No driveway and no alley I can't say definitively that there are no alleys in Jacksonville, but I spent nearly 15 ...

I really hope the police find the woman from the area who has gone missing. What I have wondered about is the description of her as having...

Turn signals, flashers, turn indicators, directionals, signal lamps--whatever you call them, they do serve an actual purpose, so I am plea...

I'm always trying to come up with new ways to sell my stories. I've written two movies, a musical play, and I'm still working ...

Someone was complaining on the Nextdoor site about FEMA workers going door to door. She said there's no way FEMA does that. Then some ...

I found this cool book about human psychology that talked about vocal minorities. The authors argued that fringe groups were able to get h...

This is a fairly simple customer service story. Just in case any of you are business owners in the Jacksonville area, I wanted to share it...

I'm not going to call out anyone specifically in Jacksonville. I know one newscaster I watch misspeaks more than any mainstream newscast...

I recently wrote an article about why renting from Penske cost a lot more in the long run. While Penske's competitors both rented me...

No, I'm kidding. At least I'm pretty sure we're safe around here, but I thought it would be interesting to revisit the program...

OK, I don't know if bird ownership is higher in Florida than any other state. One website called that information a premium statistic...

The new FCC rules relax some rules for local stations. From what I can tell, the two that might affect Jacksonville the most would be thes...

I don't want to antagonize any Nazis, especially those with assault rifles. That's certainly not the intent of this article. I just...

Crime and perception of crime are basically the same thing to an outsider. Since I don't know the area near Duval's Fairgrounds, w...

My sister is a life coach, so if I needed one, I'd ask her. I built her a life-coaching website that she has yet to use, and I decided ...

When it comes to housing and economic development, NIMBY is often the word used. It means Not In My Back Yard, and you've probably felt ...

Today at around 11:40am, I saw two Jacksonville Sheriff vehicles either responding to a crime or committing ones, but I'm not really sur...

I stand and cover my heart for the pledge and the anthem. I think it's stupid to do otherwise. The US Constitution protects the right ...

I know, you're not really supposed to give yourself titles, but it's a way to get your name out there. Like if you were the King of ...

I keep telling myself that it's going to work out. I know what I'm supposed to do to get noticed online, I know how to get Google to...

The Florida Library Association has presented Jacksonville's Public Library with the Library of the Year award, so I wanted to see what ...

I was thinking about the last two articles I wrote, and I realized that I needed a puff piece. I needed a "Better Tomorrows" kind ...

This past week led me to consider who should have guns, assuming we want to limit the ownership to some degree. I assume most of us would ag...

I wrote a post on Nextdoor this summer that mentioned my fear of Pit Bulls. I grew up in a big city with some pit bull problems, mostly in...

So we own a house. We filled out the form to ask for the Homestead Exemptions, which basically seem to reduce the taxable amount of the hous...

I spent an extra ten minutes in my car just to drive all the way to Atlantic Beach in order to specifically choose the local Jiffy Lube wit...

One of the more interesting college classes I ever took was Urban Planning 141, taught for a semester by Mayor John O. Norquist of Milwau...

I'm not going to totally criticize our city's army of gainfully employed car burglars too much. I think there are other jobs that ar...

I'm not in the market to purchase a car, but I am intrigued by a few of the local car commercials in the Jacksonville area. I think the...

As I sat way too long at the Atlantic Beach Jiffy Lube location (I only chose it because of decent Google reviews), the TV was tuned to The...

I was stuck with a weekend lineup that did not interest me, so I tuned into Local Haunts, mostly because of the cheesiest intro ever. It...

When I got off the #10 bus the other day, I looked up over some apartments and saw what looked a little like an artificial Christmas tr...

I've been making assumptions about the name of people from Jacksonville, but I have yet to look it up. In fact, I will wait until I offe...

I took my son to a Cub Scouts New Cub Shooting Sports event because he was a new Cub Scout to the area. I'll post more about that in ano...

I wrote a decent article last year about why you don't need to drive around with fog lights on all the time. But that was back in Kan...

I'm all for good-looking moms who want to take care of themselves. That's not my issue with the Action News JAX ad. The problem is...

If you live in Arlington, the options for fall festivities on anything resembling a farm seem to be limited to an hour's drive. That...

I love it when people are literal in naming of places. Obvious names, like Steep Canyon, are more fun than British aristocratic names, li...

Sorry, I don't have this hat available for you to purchase. That's what I was trying to do in order to play with the Bold City Cyclo...

I have to admit I listen to X102.9 in Jacksonville. The station goes out of its way to claim to be alternative. I like that. I listened to...

If you have a previous owner, then you have problems. Here's one of ours: the dishwasher disconnect. Our inspector ran the dishwasher....

I was doing research on local history, and I figured maybe the library would have some books for me. I was kind of right, maybe. I found a r...

I took the tour of Fort Caroline with my kids' school. It was an interesting tour, but I wondered a bit at some of the history being t...

When I was teaching, I had possibly the best Language Arts (English) high school teacher website ever created: menofalls.com . It's gone...

I saw this ad that I clicked on that was about the Jacksonville Icemen. The website seemed to be mostly about the legacy beginning, leading ...

I'm not going to weigh in on the debate as to whether players for the Jaguars should kneel, stand awkwardly with arms locked, or stay i...

I am from Wisconsin, home of the most coupon-using folks in the country. It's no wonder Kohl's is based in that state. Deals, rew...

Driving along Monument Road in Jacksonville, I had seen the sign a few times. I finally decided to look him up, thinking maybe Pappy Boynto...

For about twelve miles from the St. Johns River to the Atlantic Ocean, a continuous road in Jacksonville changes names about as often is pos...

I have always stopped for others in distress. I have yet to get mugged. On the other hand, I have yet to get paid in a Rolex like one guy I ...

I get weekly offers from ADT, SafeTouch, Xfinity, and more, for security system installation and monitoring. My house came equipped with an ...

This wasn't an obvious answer this morning as we discussed it. Technically, Florida does not look like a pan, so calling one part a pa...

I get the Dolphins, Rays, Buccaneers, Marlins, Hurricanes, and even Seminoles (I thought they were all in Oklahoma, but there are still some...

I don't know enough about the situation to blame anyone, so this is not an article complaining about Jacksonville Armada, only it kind o...

My house did not flood during Hurricane Irma. We were in Evacuation Zone 1, and we got out of the area. However, that's not enough for...

I tried to write to developers and the city about a gas station at Kernan and McCormick in Jacksonville. Nobody responded, including my repr...

I remember when we were looking for possible locations to live, I had a list of worst-case scenarios. One was lack of water, having grown up...

I am sure 2017 will put Florida and Jacksonville back on top when it comes to flood risk and cost, but I thought it was interesting to see t...

I know nobody wants them in their neighborhood. I know there's possibly been some abuse of the law when it comes to them, including some...

I was reading about Moxie Girl, a superhero from right here in Jacksonville, who gets her powers from her afro-puff hair style, and it got...

You've seen them. You might even own one. Giant pickup trucks. They are all over the place in Jacksonville, and I kind of wonder what th...

I'm new to Jacksonville, but I can tell that it suffers from some of the same problems with website design that I've seen in the Mid...

I have no evidence that Ga-ga (or Ga-ga Ball as my kids call it) is actually being played by thousands of kids in Jacksonville. I do know ...

I know there's some saying about red and dead or yellow and fellow, and I'll have to review it before a storm surge sends snakes in...

You've probably seen the top 10 list of cities with the worst drinking water. Like the list that says Floridians are the worst drivers...

Let's be honest: this website isn't all that great. It was easy to create using Blogger, but it has limitations. If you have a s...

We all like quick answers and someone else to analyze data for us. This includes the folks at local news networks, most of whom picked up ...

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