Bill Foley's columns celebrated all the wonderful quirkiness of humanity. Bill Foley's columns celebrated all the wonderful quirkiness of humanity. Readers ask for more humor. Foley's columns made you laugh out loud.
Readers demand good writing.
Foley was like a writing magician. Now, as we mourn his death last week, we celebrate his writing and his journalistic gifts. He was a walking encyclopedia of newsroom lore and a chronicler of Jacksonville history. During 1999, he was writing most of the daily Millennium Moment items. Readers, greedy for their daily dose of his wit, local history and wisdom, wanted Millennium Moments to continue.