A Conversation with Wilmington City Council Candidate Dana Page

The Exchange: Wilmington local Sam Fleishman (Bike rider) asks Dana Page (City Council Candidate) a question about bike paths.
From Sam Flieshman–Sunday, 11/1/09 at 12:02 pm
Dana,
You said that spending $16 million on bike paths is a waste of money. Do you not think that we need to use more and more alternative (not oil based automobiles) [...]

Letter to the editor: Cementing a dismal economic future

From me in this morning’s paper:

As a local software developer I completely reject the idea, put forth by Bob Warwick and others, that allowing the Titan Cement company to pollute the air and water, drain our aquifer, manipulate our legislative process, mislead our citizenry and then ship its profits out of the country positions us [...]

Question: How do you connect to Wilmington?

Whether you’re new here or old-timey — and besides the Grove Project itself! — How do you connect to the area? What makes you feel connected? What makes Wilmingon feel like it’s a somewhere instead of an anywhere?

Upcoming shows at Greenfield Lake Amphitheater

We get a lot of search requests for the Greenfield Amphitheater schedule, which doesn’t look like it has any good home. I’m as anxious as anyone to know what’s coming up at this great arts locale. (See At Home with Shakespeare, Greenfield: A good place for a concert after they get the kinks worked out, [...]

Wilmington’s Cleanocratic Party

Wow…The author of the blog “Wilmington Shame”, pictured below, does not like Senator Boseman:
CLEAN IT UP DAMMIT

Masthead:

There has always been an undercurrent of corruption and deceptive political practices in Wilmington dating back to the 1898 revolt. There are no accurate accounts, no accountability, no justice on many of the incidents that take place along the [...]

Discussion: Port City Java?

Their owners misuse and embezzle money, then abscond; employees report terrible work conditions and management pressures; management reports similar pressure from upper management (and so on); they’ve apparently either licensed their name or franchised themselves to create some 350 new PCJs in Asia (?!); local competitors, such as the now-closed Folks Cafe, describe arrogant, Walmart-like [...]

Key study deflates hopes on vitamins

From the Star News this morning: Key study deflates hopes on vitamins:

Chicago | The largest study ever of multivitamin use in older women found the pills did nothing to prevent common cancers or heart disease.
The eight-year study in 161,808 postmenopausal women echoes recent disappointing vitamin studies in men.
Millions of Americans spend billions of dollars on [...]

Creative Wilmington calendar

The redo of the Creative Wilmington — precipitated by rancorous struggle of CW founders / partners?? — looks great. Site calendars and calendar engines and widgets are so seldom useful or appealing.
This one is both:
Events for Friday, February 6th

Response to Ben Stein

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 [...]

And who said reducing corporate liability was a good idea?

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