All Entries in the "Taxes and Spending" Category
Bad MoJo: Library of Virginia slaps Maurice Jones over Barrick cover-up scandal
In the wake of a recent Schilling Show exposé into institutional corruption within Charlottesville City Hall, a new problem has emerged for Charlottesville City Manager Maurice Jones. Immediately upon the release of investigative findings implicating (now former) Charlottesville Communications Director, Ric Barrick, in a public bid-rigging and cover-up scandal, Barrick resigned his $95,000 per year [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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