All Entries in the "Politics" Category
World of (Agnor) Hurt: President Obama, same-sex marriage promoted by Albemarle County Elementary School?
In today’s highly charged political environment, government schools theoretically should be bastions of political non-partisanship. In Albemarle County, as in most Virginia school divisions, there are policies in place to prevent political indoctrination of students. Yet once again, Albemarle County’s enacted guidelines have failed to assuage concerned parents and protect vulnerable children from blatant political [...]
Guest editorial: The unforgiving minute
The Unforgiving Minute By Hank Martin I judge the two preeminent interviews that Rob has completed as of late, to be the ones with Michael Del Rosso and Jim Patterson. In both, the guests made it more than copiously clear, that in the face of America’s current narcissism, where we seem totally captivated with either [...]
Guest editorial: Charlottesville City Council’s plan to give away 20 percent of Oakwood Cemetery
(Note: This is an open letter to Charlottesville City Council from guest editorialist Antoinette W. Roades) To: Members of Charlottesville City Council From: Antoinette W. Roades Date: 1 May 2012 Re: Your plan to give away 20 percent of Oakwood Cemetery Given City practice over the last few years, what you are poised to do [...]
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 [...]
Worldly: Albemarle County teacher deletes “God” lyric from “We Are The World”
Within weeks of a national scandal at Stall Brook Elementary School in Bellingham, Massachusetts—where an overzealous government school official removed “God” from Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA”—a local teacher has performed her own secular exorcism on another popular song. For an upcoming 4th and 5th grade performance at Albemarle County’s Broadus Wood Elementary School [...]
Our Titanic Government: Rob Schilling speaks at Tea Party rally
Schilling Show host, Rob Schilling, delivers searing remarks at the Jefferson Area Tea Party Tax Day Rally, held April 16, 2012 on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall. In his comments, entitled, “Our Titanic Government,” Schilling references the arrogance and ignorance surrounding America’s impending financial doom. Kristin Szakos, Dennis Rooker, David Toscano, Dave Norris, and Tom Perriello are [...]
Righteous red pen 2 report: Trimming $14M of fat and waste from Albemarle County’s budget
Far from being cut to the marrow, or even trimmed to the bone, a fundamental review of Albemarle County’s 2012-2013 proposed budget reveals a document laden with political lard, fat handouts, and gratuitous, meaty spending proposals. Following an exposé chronicling Charlottesville City’s profligate misspending, Albemarle County is the target of the “red pen 2” report—suggestions [...]
Righteous red pen report: Cutting $13M from Charlottesville City’s bloated budget
Despite ongoing annual proclamations that Charlottesville City Government is cash starved, a cursory analysis of the city’s proposed 2012-13 Operating & Capital Budget shows that nothing could be further from the truth. This year, Charlottesville City Hall is “swimming in cash”—as it has been for the last decade and beyond, running up cumulative surpluses in [...]
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 [...]
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