All Entries in the "Environment" Category
Guest editorial: Reject the William Taylor Plaza rezoning
Reject the William Taylor Plaza rezoning by Antoinette Roades (Note: The first and last opportunity for public comment is Tuesday, February 8 at the City Council / Planning Commission Joint Public Hearing, 6:00 PM in the City Council Chambers.) An open letter to the Charlottesville City Council and the Charlottesville Planning Commission To: Members of [...]
Guest editorial: Let’s build the earthen dam at Ragged Mountain
Let’s build the earthen dam at Ragged Mountain by Vic Peña Over the past few weeks, in conversations with my friends and neighbors in the County the subject of water availability and costs will eventually come up. This was especially true while many of us were in the process of the fall ritual of preparing [...]
Charlottesville’s twisted eco-socialism: Norris, Marx, abortion, property rights, and saving the trees
Charlottesville City Council is troubled over the destiny of local trees. Born of this concern is the Charlottesville Tree Commission, an advisory body charged with assisting councilors in: reviewing hazardous trees; informing the public of the city’s tree preservation efforts; engaging the youth; developing a street tree master list; and maintaining a tree inventory. A [...]
Coup you: Charlottesville Democrats’ secret scheme to topple “Norris Plan”
A high-level operative from within the Charlottesville Democratic Committee has taken direct aim at Mayor Dave Norris and his alternative water plan. Linda Seaman, a 2007 candidate for Charlottesville City Council, and an obsequious delegate of Charlottesville’s “old guard” Democrat cabal, is conspiring to arrange a coup d’état headed by three “sympathetic” councilors: David Brown, [...]
Guest editorial: Charlottesville’s do gooders, don’t get it
Charlottesville’s do gooders, don’t get it by Steve Lopez So what happens when a bunch of men and women with doctorate degrees read that Charlottesville is the best place in America to retire? Normally they are welcomed members of the community that help make the moniker “best place to live” a self fulfilling prophecy. But [...]
Szakos exposed: Kristin’s kibitz on water plan
If politics is the art of saying absolutely nothing while using thousands of words, or the craft of staying silent until the last possible minute, Democrat Charlottesville City Councilor, Kristin Szakos, has become a master of the game. In the style of her political hero, “Two-faced Tom” Perriello, Szakos uses double-speak and silence effectively to [...]
Green building, brown bushes: Charlottesville’s colorblind environmental hypocrisy
For all its self-aggrandizing blather of being a “green city,” prioritizing a “more robust tree canopy,” and invoking environmental sustainability, practically speaking, Charlottesville city is pulling emerald wool over our eyes. Consider CAT’s (Charlottesville Area Transit) “new green facility” (aka the green goddess)—a modern marvel of LEED-certified energy efficiency goodness. So esteemed is this advanced [...]
Soaked: Ratepayers underwrite RWSA $5k gift to Rivanna Conservation Society
Times must be flush at the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority (RWSA). At their June 22, 2010 board meeting, the embattled authority (infamously known for raising water and sewer rates to compensate for conservation–related revenue shortfalls) quietly pumped $5,000 of ratepayer money into the caissons of a political ally—the Rivanna Conservation Society (RCS). RCS, a [...]
Guest editorial: Is Big Brother a bio-terrorist?
Is Big Brother a bio-terrorist? by Tim Griffith The U. S. Government has waged a Bio-Terrorism campaign on American citizens for over a decade! It’s a fact and only the victims seem to be aware of it. The victims are the states of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, and most notably the people that live and [...]
Progressive Progress: Daily newspaper refuses correction of wayward reporter
The Daily Progress protects its writers, even when they pilfer and even when they slant. When the DP recently ran a Brian McNeill-authored story that contained critical and potentially misleading omissions, the newspaper’s editorial department declined to run a letter-to-the-editor (LTE) setting the writer (and the record) straight. According to the paper’s internal policy, such [...]
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