All Entries in the "Government and Governance" Category
The Tattered Public Sphere: A Review of Charles Murray’s “Coming Apart”
The Tattered Public Sphere: A Review of Charles Murray’s “Coming Apart” By Scott Beyer There were many advantages to having a sheltered, upper-middle class background in Charlottesville. But one thing it didn’t teach me was what the adult world is really like in America across class lines. Even following college, I still believed most of [...]
Breaking news: Barrick resigns in wake of Schilling Show investigation
Charlottesville City Communications Director, Ric Barrick, tendered his resignation today following the release of an investigative report by The Schilling Show Blog and News. Schilling’s yearlong investigation resulted in Special Prosecutor, Diana Wheeler, being named to research procurement and procedural anomalies inside City Hall. Barrick cited job “stress” as the primary reason for his departure [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Guest editorial: Rules are replacing responsibility in government
Rules are replacing responsibility in government by Jim Stern Man has always lived under sets of rules. From the Ten Commandments to the legal code, sporting competitions to board games, in physics and in tax forms, there are rules everywhere guiding our lives. Deciphering the rules creates knowledge. Early man saw that fire burns, fire [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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: 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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