All Entries in the "Taxes and Spending" Category
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 [...]
Fat cats: Charlottesville City Government’s outrageous salary games
It was with great fanfare that Charlottesville’s $95,000+ per year spokesman, Ric Barrick, announced the selection of Chris J. Engel as city’s new Director of Economic Development (DED) in a January 12 news release: The City of Charlottesville is proud to announce the appointment of Chris J. Engel as the next Economic Development Director for [...]
Turn-votes: “Conservative” Albemarle County School Board members shun Buyaki, support Koleszar, McKeel for Chair and Vice Chair
In an amazing display of institutional protectionism, the seven-member Albemarle County School Board (ACSB) voted to prohibit conservative reformer, Jason Buyaki, from assuming a board leadership position. At the ACSB January 12 organizational meeting, politically left-leaning member Eric Strucko—recently a champion of process and corruption reform—nominated Buyaki for chair. Establishment darling, Diantha McKeel, then nominated [...]
Guest Editorial: Reasons to support public libraries over public schools
Guest editorial: Reasons to support public libraries over public schools by Steven C. Latimer Crozetians and Western Albemarleans awoke to welcomed news on December 8, 2011, as the Crozet Gazette and Charlottesville Daily Newspaper reported that the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors had voted to direct county staff to send out an RFP, or request [...]
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 [...]
Poison pen: Chichester endorses fellow liberal Houck
In a stunningly shortsighted display of political hubris, Democrat Senator Edd Houck has given voters in Virginia’s 17th District the best reason yet to support his opponent, Republican Bryce Reeves: Liberal Republocrat, and former State Senator, John “Chi-taxter” Chichester, has endorsed Houck! Edd Houck, a longtime legislative partner of Planned Parenthood and a reliable pro-abortion [...]
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 [...]
Guest editorial: NPR, bias, and evidence based policy
NPR, bias, and evidence based policy by Jeff VanWickler I like National Public Radio. I just wish they weren’t getting my tax money. After the primaries for the 2008 election, The Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy of The Harvard Kennedy School released a study that showed the media had given measurably [...]
Rob Schilling addresses Jefferson Area Tea Party free speech rally
In this exclusive video, Schilling Show host, Rob Schilling, discusses free speech, equal protection under the law and the 14th Amendment, rewarding of scofflaws by City Manager Maurice Jones, and anti-tea-party remarks and insults recently uttered by local Democrats David Toscano, Dave Norris, David Brown, Dennis Rooker, and Cynthia Neff. The speech was delivered on [...]
A porta-potty in every park: Councilor Szakos wants free portable commodes for illegal occupiers
Bending over backwards to accommodate the law-skirting Occupy Charlottesville movement, last evening City Councilor Kristin Szakos upped the ante on her fellow Democrats with a novel proposal: provide the interlopers with a taxpayer-funded porta-potty! The discussion took place at the October 17 City Council meeting as elected Democrats stumbled over themselves to extend grace to [...]
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