Take the high road until it has too many steps, laugh, and watching Murder, She Wrote cures erectile dysfunction.

No longer does the average Joe with a brilliant idea have to pray for a bank loan or a rich Uncle to crawl out of the woodwork. He can ask his community for help, and if his community believes in his idea, they can make it happen, one small donation at a time.

Drew Ungvarsky of GROW Interactive asks, Won’t You Be Our Neighbor?

There are some pretty cool, helpful, and interesting blogs in the Hampton Roads area. Here are some that we suggest you look into.

Once a feasibility study is done and all alternatives are explored, BRT may very well be considered the best alternative for State and Federal funding.

Using LEGOs and string to represent jobs, housing, roads and mass transit, the participants were tasked with determining where 350,000 more people might live and work in the year 2035.

Thanks to some creative thinking the Third Anchor is no longer just a void where the ice rink stands in the winter.

The vote last night was wrong. We let irrelevant issues cloud the real question – whether Thorne-Begland was qualified and would be competent in doing the job of a General District Court judge – with conjecture and character-assassination.

ODU students express their grievances on the ODU Memes page. #monarchproblems

editor’s note: this piece originally ran on my campaign site. It saddened me when this Tweet came through my feed from Virginian-Pilot reporter Patrick Wilson: Norfolk City Council needed to talk about public records. So they met in secret. Top secret legal stuff. Then there was a link to this story: “Norfolk council meets privately [...]

A vote for Jesse tomorrow isn’t about one man. You are electing an army of some of the most passionate, intelligent, and dedicated people I have ever met. This is about a movement.

I’ve been renting one of the rooms in my house to a newly transplanted couple from Arizona for about a week now, it’s interesting to listen to their first impressions of Hampton Roads. This story is about Jim’s first experience with the HRT bus system.

Ladies and gentlemen, the four candidates for the May 1, 2012 General Election for Norfolk City Council, Superward 6: John Amiral, Marcus Calabrese, Jesse Scaccia, and Barclay Winn (the incumbent).

“What I’m proposing is not conventional, but let’s be honest: conventional approaches aren’t working for our students.”

Several weeks ago my fiancee and I were driving back from a visit with Jesse in Norfolk. She looked at me and ventured, “He means it, doesn’t he?” “Means what?” “Everything.” “Yes, he does.”