All Entries in the "Environment" Category
Guest editorial: An open letter to Albemarle County and Charlottesville City Planning Commissions
Guest editorial: An open letter to Albemarle County and Charlottesville City Planning Commissions By Charles Battig, MD With both an engineering and medical background, my views are science and validated-results based. They are more oriented with F. A. Hayek and “The Fatal Conceit,” than with American Planning Association dogma. None of my comments are intended [...]
Cats and the cradle: Norris pleads relief for sore felines, ignores barbaric institutional infanticide
Charlottesville City Councilor Dave Norris boldly has raised his voice in opposition to procedural testing on cats being conducted at the University of Virginia. Norris, a pro-abortion Democrat, joined about 25 protesters at an April 12 rally on University Grounds to call for an end to feline intubation. This procedure allows medical residents to practice [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Breaking news: UK cops, aided by US DoJ, in hot pursuit of Climategate leaker
Climate Cops Raid Blogger, Obama DoJ Aiding UK Manhunt for “Climategate” Leaker By Christopher C. Horner It appears that the United States Department of Justice (DoJ), Criminal Division, is working with United Kingdom police to pursue the leaker of the 2009 and 2011 “Climategate” emails. I have learned that last week DoJ sent a search-and-seizure [...]
99% trash: Occupy Charlottesville’s Lee Park landfill
Despite numerous promises to the contrary, Occupy Charlottesville (OC) left Lee Park in far worse condition than they found it. An October 17 Daily Progress story trumpets the lawless group’s intentions for the park, if they are granted special permission to camp there: Occupy Charlottesville protesters asked the City Council on Monday to suspend the [...]
Subversive sustainabilists: Communists and Marxists infiltrate Albemarle County government
In its million-dollar maniacal pursuit to implement the 1998 Sustainability Accords in Albemarle County and Charlottesville, the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission (TJPDC) has operated as an enemy of free people, threatening individual liberties and property rights endowed us by our Creator. Concurrently, Albemarle County Supervisor Dennis Rooker has scoffed at suggestions that United Nations [...]
Cold stone crazy: Charlottesville city using capital improvement funds to buy “free” ice cream for neighborhoods
First it was the grand vote-buying scheme of government-sponsored pizza parties, courtesy of councilor Kristen Szakos. Now, Charlottesville’s City Council Democrats are using publicly underwritten ice cream socials to curry favor with city voters, via the Neighborhood Grant Matching Program. Almost worse than the concept of vote-purchasing with “free” government food, is that the monies [...]
Muzzled: Democrat Toscano calls for ban on tea party free speech
From the top down, America’s political left has coordinated a new national pastime. Desperate Democrats—in federal, state and local elected offices—brashly are vilifying the tea party in hopes of derailing that group’s political popularity and legislative successes. Recently: Vice President Joe Biden reportedly referred to Congressional tea party negotiators as “terrorists.” U.S. Representative Maxine Waters [...]
Gun shy: Rooker fires at tea party, then ducks appearance on Schilling Show
Hot on the heels of a declamatory shot across the bow of the Jefferson Area Tea Party (JATP), Albemarle County Supervisor, Dennis Rooker, has refused an invitation to appear on WINA’s The Schilling Show in order to clarify inappropriate remarks he delivered at a recent public assembly. At the Wednesday, September 7 Albemarle County Board [...]
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