Category: Blogs and Blog Administration
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Making Progress
Got email restored to my PC — not my laptop or tablet, but I’ll worry about them later. Apparently, my Outlook 2010 is too old. I’ll have to upgrade to the new subscriber-based Outlook. Anyway, the email setup process is so complex that I never could have gotten as far as I have without extensive…
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Bacon’s Rebellion — Down but Not Out
The Bacon’s Rebellion blog and email account crashed Friday morning, and I’m working on getting them back in working order. According to my web host, Hostmonster, the server where the blog resides is “under attack” by unknown parties, and no one is sure when they can solve the problem. Because Hostmonster was so unresponsive and…
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CURA’d Bacon
Bacon’s Rebellion is pleased to announce a partnership with the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis at Virginia Commonwealth University’s L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs. CURA conducts research on housing, poverty, economic development and other topics relating to the prosperity, livability and sustainability of Virginia communities — the same topics that…
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Jim Bacon nominated for Nobel Prize
Stockholm Syndrome – In dramatic news the Nobel Foundation today announced that James A. Bacon has been nominated for the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his groundbreaking economic work – Boomergeddon. Nobel spokesman Lars E Faire said, “Of course we nominated Bacon – just putting a picture of a detonated atomic bomb on…
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On the Road Again…
It is spring vacation, which means the Bacon family is on the move. I’ll be reporting in this week from one of the country’s great historic walkable and historic cities. – JAB
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Citizens Take on Crony Capitalism in VA Beach
by James A. Bacon Arlington County had its $1 million bus stop scandal. The City of Richmond had its mayoral cronyism scandal. Now Virginia Beach has its Cavalier Hotel redevelopment scandal. The FBI has undertaken a criminal investigation of a vote by Councilman John Uhrin in favor of providing $18 million in city funds to…
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Apology to B.R. Newsletter Subscribers
While doing some file clean-up in WordPress, I accidentally published an unfinished version of an article I am in the process of writing, which probably triggered an email to many Bacon’s Rebellion subscribers. The article was incomplete. I have not fully thought it through, and I have not fact-checked it. You will do yourself no…
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Introducing John Szczesny
A quick note to readers: John Szczesny, a Chesterfield resident, urban planner and telecommunications consultant, is joining the stable of Bacon’s Rebellion contributors. He has a B.A. in political science from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and a Master’s in Planning from SUNY-Albany. He will write about a variety of issues relating to planning and telecommunications in Virginia.…
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Out of Action Today
Honorable Daughter Number One is getting married tomorrow in North Carolina, and I have a number of fatherly duties to attend to this weekend. Sorry, but no posts until next week! — JAB
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Swimming with the Sharks
I’ll be blogging sporadically this week, as I am vacationing with the in-laws at Emerald Isle, N.C. — JAB
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Coming Up: Comment Highlights
Some of the best content of the Bacon’s Rebellion blog lies buried in the comments. Readers are extraordinarily knowledgeable, and they often share their knowledge to amplify or take issue with posts appearing on the blog. I have been so impressed with readers’ contributions recently that I have decided to highlight their contributions. Readers should check…
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So Long, Bacon's Rebellion
By Peter Galuszka For that past six (or is it seven or eight?) years, I’m been pleased to pound away posting my peculiar views on Bacons Rebellion. My stance has typically been that of a liberal or progressive albeit one of the near and not the far left. My opinions have been honed by 41…
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So Long, Bacon’s Rebellion
By Peter Galuszka For that past six (or is it seven or eight?) years, I’m been pleased to pound away posting my peculiar views on Bacons Rebellion. My stance has typically been that of a liberal or progressive albeit one of the near and not the far left. My opinions have been honed by 41…
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Note to Subscribers….
Subscribers to the Bacon’s Rebellion email alert received notification of a newly published article about legal issues surrounding the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. That story was incomplete. I published it by clicking on the wrong button in WordPress, and I deleted it from the blog as soon as I recognized the mistake. My apologies for the…
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Dominion to Sponsor Bacon's Rebellion
by James A. Bacon Bacon’s Rebellion is pleased to announce that Dominion is sponsoring year-long blog commentary and journalistic coverage of energy and environmental issues in Virginia. Dominion joins a list of Bacon’s Rebellion sponsors that has included the Piedmont Environmental Council, Bon Secours Richmond and Smart Growth America. Like its predecessors, Dominion asks for nothing…