Category: Blogs and Blog Administration
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Woo Hoo! One Million and Counting…
Bacon’s Rebellion passed a big milestone late last night — we hit one million page-views since our blog-relaunch in July 2011. We know there are other political blogs in Virginia that generate more traffic but we’re really proud of the caliber of our audience and quality of interaction in our comments. Thank you, Bacon’s Rebellion…
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Webinar: How Policy Tilts the Land Use and Development Market
Join us for a FREE webinar Wednesday, August 27, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time ***please log on 15 minutes prior to start*** Reserve your webinar seat now! Space is limited. In this webinar we will identify and discuss key policies such as land-use regulations and infrastructure investments that shape the location and type of development that…
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Note to Readers
I have added a new feature designed to block comment spam to the blog. As readers, you don’t see the spam but it fills my inbox and it slows the blog server. The feature requires everyone who registers and submits a comment to prove they are human by typing in a few letters displayed in a box. It’s…
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Buffalo Hunting
I’m off to Buffalo, N.Y., to attend the 2014 Congress for the New Urbanism. I’ll be networking with fellow conservative and libertarian urbanists, and blogging as opportunity permits. I’ve never been to Buffalo before and I’m looking forward to learning more about the Empire State’s No. 2 city. — JAB
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Where in the World Is Jim Bacon?
Hint: That is the Eiffel Tower but this is not Paris, France. This is ground zero for crass materialism, self-indulgent hedonism and inauthentic kitsch. It is the antithesis of everything I hold dear yet… I feel oddly drawn to this place. — JAB
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Conservative vs. Progressive: Global Climate Change
Killer Bs. In an unprecedented move, two prominent Virginia blogs, Bacon’s Rebellion and BlueVirginia, have agreed to cooperate in a structured debate over a series of possible programs designed to combat global climate change. The programs were selected based on two major criteria – they had to be applicable to Virginia and they had to encompass actions…
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Tiny Homes, Meet Mobile Homes
by James A. Bacon I am tickled by the “tiny homes” movement, which the urbanist blogs treat with a certain reverence. To be sure, tiny homes (under 500 square feet) address a real problem: the unaffordability of real estate in some of the nation’s most desirable metropolitan areas. Tapping creativity and ingenuity to stretch the…
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GiftGate: And the Legal Bills Keeping Mounting
By Peter Galuszka The election is over. The transition teams are forming. And the GiftGate legal bills keep mounting. Taxpayers are now facing $575,000 in total charges, according to The Washington Post. These include $331,000 in fees charged in July, August and September by two law firms representing state employees in the Gov. Robert F.…
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A Pre-Election Reader
By Peter Galuszka Like many, I will be truly glad after Tuesday’s election. I don’t recall a more tedious, uninspiring campaign. At this point it seems obvious that Kenneth Cuccinelli is going down. E.W. Jackson hasn’t a chance and if any Republican makes it it will be Mark Obenshain for attorney general. Cuccinelli has always…
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The Birth and Death of “Miner’s Revenge”
By Peter Galuszka A couple of weeks ago, Scott, the photographer with whom I worked on my book on Massey Energy and the worst mine disaster in 40 years, emailed me to ask if I knew about a new Halloween amusement at Kings Dominion, the amusement park just off Interstate 95 in Doswell. Called “Miner’s…
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Off to the Imperial City
I’m off to D.C. for the next few days to attend the American Dream Coalition’s annual conference in Washington, D.C., where I hope to discover why some of America’s leading conservative/free-market thinkers about transportation and land use are so hostile to smart growth. Are they committed to defending contemporary suburbia? Or would their public policy…
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Clouds
Clouds… I could sit on a sand dune sipping coffee and watch them all day long. Totally therapeutic. I’m so mellow now, I’ve stopped compulsively checking the blog every two hours. So sad, today is the day we pack up and make the long drive home. Speaking of the blog, thanks to PeterG for keeping…
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Summer Doldrums
I know I know… I’m a slacker. I take a full week’s vacation every year. Sometimes two weeks. The Bacon family is heading Saturday to Litchfield Beach, S.C. Nothing fancy. Just an old-fashioned beach vacation. I’ll be checking in every so often, and I may make a couple of quick-and-dirty blog posts. Henrico County meals…
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Whatever Happened to Boomergeddon?
By Peter Galuszka And now for something completely different. I read with great interest James A. Bacon Jr.s “Boomergeddon” work a couple of years ago. It printed a very bleak picture of our financial future and Jim says, “We need to cut hundreds of billions of dollars” from the federal budget. But something has been…
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Chug-a-Lug, New York, Here I Come
It’s spring vacation, and I’m off to the Big Apple. Or should I say, the land of the Big Gulp. Or Big Nanny Bloomberg’s day care. Whatever you call it, it should be fun and I will blog intermittently, if I can. My goal: to buy a large cup of sugary soda before the mayor…