I received the following email today. It’s directed at those in the hospitality industry, but anyone can help/take part:
My name is Kip Damrow. I am the Director of Sales for the Hilton Garden Inn Mayfaire Town Center and the Courtyard by Marriott - University.
I need your help. This will be the easiest […]
Here’s a goal for all Wilmingtonians: Eat more local seafood. Not only is it delicious, with a variety of textures, tastes and a sea-salty aroma that people travel miles to experience; eating local seafood also supports Southeastern North Carolina’s most prized, albeit diminishing, industry.
Check out this paranoid posting from Mike Adams, a criminology professor at UNCW. What is it exactly that is so frightening about an Obama presidency? Does the far right not believe in (and trust in) governmental checks and balances? Why are gay rights so intimidating? And is the proper response to stockpile weapons? Why?
http://townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams/2008/11/19/debbie_does_malice
(Just a quick link to a new story:
More than 70 protestors are expected to gather in downtown Wilmington Saturday as part of a grassroots effort to stage synchronized national protests of gay marriage bans enacted in the last election.
Star News online, via twitter.com
Gay marriage protest planned Saturday in Wilmington
It’s time again for our annual feature about Encore Magazine’s Best Of contest. This year’s ballot includes more than 50 categories for Food & Drink alone. It’s like today’s youth sports — everyone wins! Another category is Best Storage, which seems to me would be either the cheapest or the closest to the customer, because […]
I was unfortunate enough to receive this apparently aged recitation by way of a builder friend of mine. I try to avoid commenting on such matters, but I thought this one was particularly worthy of notation. A link to the cbs version of the original is include…if you dare. Otherwise […]
For me, the right context for understanding developments like this one about RightChange.com (PPD’s CEO bankrolls ads attacking Obama), a conservative counter-punch to MoveOn.org created by local businessman Fred Eshelman, or this recent letter to the editor decrying Eshelman’s politics as unbecoming a local “philanthropist” (Politics v. Parks), is the mythology of Eshelman himself and his relationship to Wilmington.
Rising unemployment drains state trust funds, forcing them to borrow from Washington to continue paying claims.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/07/news/economy/unemployment_insurance/index.htm
On Halloween night, Obama supporters young and old donned masks of the popular candidates face imploring residents of Wilmington to take advantage of the last day of early voting before the November 4 general election.
When we first moved to Wilmington over four years ago, we enjoyed Giorgio’s for its cheap traditional Italian dishes and its huge portions. A plate of spaghetti, for example, cost about $9 and typically made two or three meals. We have since moved on to other favorite eateries (Flaming Amy’s, A Taste of Italy, Nikki’s, to […]
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