Moving -- from someone else's blog space to my own

After I've been hanging my hat and quill here for who-knows-how-many years, The Column is moving.

For me, this is a giant step. Rather than using a hosted site such as Blogger (brought to you by the friendly folks of Google), the new site is my own.

All of which is good news for this kid.

I've already exported the content from here to the new site, and for a short time I will even remember this site as I post. If I remember. Eventually, though, I will phase this site (and probably the one at Hubpages) out.

Anyway, the new site location is http://column.ericpulsifer.com

To subscribe to the new blog: http://column.ericpulsifer.com/?feed=rss2

Join me.

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Is it spring yet?

These Bradford Pear trees, popular in the South as an ornamental street tree, are usually among the first things to bloom out here. While temperatures are supposed to drop again this week, Charleston boasted springlike weather over the weekend with 80-degree days. This photo was shot Sunday morning off Rivers Avenue in North Charleston.

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In case you wonder why I haven't written ...

(... sounds like Mom ...)

Anyway, here's the skinny according to HubPages:

Despite recession, back to workin' on the railroad

Life's turned wacky. Bear with me.

-- Eric

Charleston County to privatize recycling

I really like this. An idea that is way overdue, and not done often enough.

The Post and Courier - Charleston County to farm out recycling - Charleston SC - postandcourier.com

In private hands, Charleston County's recycling operation should make $1 million more each year than it does now, said County Council officials who voted Tuesday night to privatize the facility ... Council approved a contract with American Recycling of South Carolina to run the facility in Charleston, and in another waste-related vote agreed to sell the site of the former garbage incinerator in North Charleston to Shipyard Creek Associates for an as-yet undisclosed price ...

I'm not just thinking about the money angle here. See, when you take these government functions and have them done by the private sector, they generally will be a lot better run, more efficient, just better functions overall.

H'mmm ... maybe the federal government ought to consider privatizing the medical industry? Just asking.

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