Firing Up Portsmouth

Create Portsmouth Now!
 Photo Courtesy: IGUP
People in Portsmouth are fired up.

And they are fed up.

Portsmouth City Council approved a hike in the property tax of three cents. Even one cent is too much for Portsmouth, a city that might beat Detroit for the worst managed city in America. 

Despite public outrage, Mayor Kenny Wright and his allies approved the budget with the property tax intact.

Advocates and voters have had enough of the quarrelsome crew on City Council.

One group, calling itself Friends for Portsmouth, meets tonight, May 13, at the Sheriff's Training Center, 1725 Green Street at 6:30pm. The Training Station is located behind the Effingham Street Fure Station.

The meeting, according to an announcement on Facebook, plans to discuss the “future leaders for our City in the 2016 election.”

There's also Create Portsmouth Now!, a community action group. The group meets every month at a different location in the city of Portsmouth. The coalition of community members, from Cradock to Olde Towne, are active, involved and persuasive.


We are not quaint. We are historic.
We are not sleepy. We are preparing.
We are not bad. We are bad-ass.
We work hard.
We play hard.
We love hard.
We are unique.
We are Portsmouth, Virginia.

There's also Giovanni Alexander's “I Grew Up in Portsmouth,” a Facebook page that explores, reveals and portrays the heart and soul of Portsmouth, its legacy and a legacy that has been ignored, forgotten or buried.

We, who love Portsmouth, want to create a fair and transparent society, where everyone is equal. We want the respect we deserve in our region and the world to know how much our citizens have given to make it a better place. Our different origins enrich all of us as a whole and together we have the responsibility for the legacy of the generations, land, history, nature, language and culture.“
God Bless,
Giovanni Alexander.

“True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.”
-Charles Bukowski

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
-Malcolm X