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Fraud, misfeasance and cover-up: Special Prosecutor investigates Charlottesville spokesman Barrick

Fraud, misfeasance and cover-up: Special Prosecutor investigates Charlottesville spokesman Barrick

The City of Charlottesville spends a lot of money—well north of $140 million in its most recent annual budget. The vast majority of the city’s revenues come in the form of taxes paid by its citizens who have little choice but to remit excessively the hard-earned fruits of their labor to a profligate-spending government. The [...]

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Host turns guest: Schilling analyzes GOP Primary results for national radio audience

Host turns guest: Schilling analyzes GOP Primary results for national radio audience

Schilling Show host, Rob Schilling goes “national” in an appearance on America’s Radio News Network’s “The Drive Home,” a news-talk network syndicated to 275 stations nationwide. Hosts Steve Ray and Rachel Crowson seek Rob’s analysis of the recent GOP Primary results including Mitt Romney’s viability, the Ron Paul campaign, Newt Gingrich’s second place finishes, and [...]

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Clubbed: The tyrannical, botanical, Democrat politics of McIntire Park

Clubbed: The tyrannical, botanical, Democrat politics of McIntire Park

While the press for a botanical takeover of McIntire Park has gone full court, an important underlying component of the process has gone unreported in Charlottesville’s mainstream media: coercive Democrat politics. Charlottesville Democrats in 2004 attempted to oust golf from the park through a series of meetings, plans, and maneuverings led by then-mayor Maurice Cox, [...]

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Breaking news: Carole Thorpe leaving Tea Party post

Breaking news: Carole Thorpe leaving Tea Party post

Carole Thorpe, chair of the Jefferson Area Tea Party will be leaving her post this month after two years at the helm of the influential government watchdog group. After assuming the reigns of the organization from previous chair, Bill Hay, Thorpe has led the local Tea Party in claiming several major political victories, including the [...]

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Andrew Breitbart interview on The Schilling Show

Andrew Breitbart interview on The Schilling Show

On May 5, 2011, Andrew Breitbart joined Schilling Show host, Rob Schilling, to discuss Breitbart’s new book, Righteous Indignation. Rob and Andrew shared conversation on their mutual admiration of Dennis Prager, the seminal Los Angeles punk band X, and growing up in Southern California in the 1970s and 1980s. Andrew Breitbart, a hero of constitutional [...]

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Breaking news: Watterson leaving Charlottesville Transit

Breaking news: Watterson leaving Charlottesville Transit

Bill Watterson, Charlottesville Area Transit (CAT) manager will be leaving his local post by early March. Judy Mueller, Charlottesville’s Director of Public Works, made the unexpected announcement of Watterson’s imminent departure at the CAT offices, during a scheduled staff meeting. Watterson has accepted a similar position in Chittenden County, Vermont, where he will earn $114,000 [...]

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Overdrive: Illegal parking problems persist at Albemarle High School

Overdrive: Illegal parking problems persist at Albemarle High School

It’s happened again. And again. And again. Less than 90 days after The Schilling Show reported dangerous and ongoing parking violations at Albemarle High School (AHS), the problem persists. The latest pictures, taken in January and February by Schilling Show contributor Jorge Brooks, Jr., show cars lining yellow-curbed emergency-vehicle access areas, blocking clearly marked fire [...]

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Summer in the city: TJPDC employee overheats on climate change skeptics’ free speech

Summer in the city: TJPDC employee overheats on climate change skeptics’ free speech

Hot on the heels of Delegate David Toscano’s outrageous attempt to silence global warming “skeptics” through a suggested denial of constitutionally protected speech comes another insidious, government-sponsored onslaught on the First Amendment. This time, the proposed restriction emanates from Summer Frederick, Planning Manager at Charlottesville’s Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission (TJPDC). Frederick, apparently not satisfied [...]

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Breaking news: Corey Stewart running for Virginia Lt. Governor

Breaking news: Corey Stewart running for Virginia Lt. Governor

On yesterday’s edition of The Schilling Show, Corey Stewart, Chair of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors stated that he will be seeking the office of Virginia Lt. Governor in 2013, with a formal announcement to follow shortly. Stewart, a Republican, is best known for groundbreaking illegal immigration reform in Prince William County and [...]

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No-go: Huja nixes Human Rights Commission unless government included under purview

No-go: Huja nixes Human Rights Commission unless government included under purview

Charlottesville, Virginia, a bastion of left-wing University elites, has a serious white-on-black racial discrimination problem. Charlottesville, Virginia, a political stronghold of Marxist-leaning Democrat elected officials, has a serious white-on-black racial discrimination problem. Charlottesville, Virginia, home to a concentration of socially evolved progressives (e.g. pro “marriage rights” and abortion on-demand), has a serious white-on-black racial discrimination [...]

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