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 [...]
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 [...]
Host turns guest: Schilling analyzes GOP Primary results for national radio audience
Schilling Show host, Rob Schilling goes “national” in an appearance on America’s Radio News Network’s “The Drive Home,” a news-talk network syndicated to 275 stations nationwide. Hosts Steve Ray and Rachel Crowson seek Rob’s analysis of the recent GOP Primary results including Mitt Romney’s viability, the Ron Paul campaign, Newt Gingrich’s second place finishes, and [...]
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 [...]
Guest editorial: The perpetual scream for increasing the unskilled wages for reasons of social justice
Guest editorial: The perpetual scream for increasing the unskilled wages for reasons of social justice by Claire Overton As a friend of Dr. Nelson Lichtenstein ( former UVA Professor, Now at UCLA, union apologist, author of Jimmy Hoffa, The Most Dangerous Man In Detroit et al. and the first “ Living Wage Activist “ in [...]
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 [...]
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