Charlottesville Podcasting Network

Growth seems to be on everyone’s minds in Central Virginia. Will our community become even more ridden by sprawl and property tax increases? That’s what happened in Loudoun County, according to Jim Burton of the county’s Board of Supervisors. He’s an advocate of slow growth, and in this February 28 presentation to the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors, he describes why and how Loudoun’s population grew from 57,427 in 1980 to nearly 270,000 today. If you want to skip the introduction by Jack Marshall of Advocates for a Sustainable Albemarle Population, fast forward to 4:00 to get right to Burton’s comments, followed by a question and answer period.

 

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A Virginia House committee voted down a bill to ban smoking in Virginia’s restaurants this week, but the topic is not going to go away. It’s been done all over Europe, and Britain will prohibit indoor smoking in all public places at the end of the year. Lisa McCade represents area smokers who are opposed to the ban. Andy McClure is one of the two owners of the Virginian and West Main.

Rick Moore says he’s a guest on this show, representing area residents who don’t smoke.
In the monologue, Rick wonders what all the fuss is over restless leg syndrome, and wonders if anyone is paying attention to other diseases that plague society.

 

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Interview with with Robert L. Self, Monticello’s Architectural Conservator, on the restoration of Monticello’s Dome Room

It’s almost a year now since the Charlottesville Podcasting Network launched as a source for area podcasts. We’re proud to draw your attention today to a video podcast from a group of students at the University of Virginia. Hoos News is billed as “UVa’s finest, most prestigious, most smartest online-only non-profit student-run sometimes-monthly in-depth knockoff parody news show.” Episode 8 was released earlier this week and is available here as a download in Quicktime.

 

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Hoos News is available through iTunes

On the February 19 edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, Rick Moore was visited by members of Charlottesville’s Offstage Theatre. The show covers the differences between traditional and ‘offstage’ theatre and features a profile of the group’s upcoming season. The show is filled with small readings from a handful of the groups humor-filled one-act plays. full of talent and laughs.

 

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This past Saturday, the two Democratic candidates for the Charlottesville City Council faced questions from their peers at the party’s monthly breakfast. Dave Norris and Julian Taliaferro are the only two declared Democrats vying for the two open council seats. Charlottesville Tomorrow recorded the event, which we present here. Visit Charlottesville Tomorrow’s blog entry on the topic for a run-down.

 

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We bring you now the fourth and final in a series of community conversations on poverty sponsored by the Quality Community Council and the University of the Poor. This conversation from February 1 centers around education, and how a poor education or no education can factor into someone’s likelihood to fall into poverty.

The session is introduced by U.Va religious studies professor Corey Walker and speakers include: Deidre Gilmore, Chair of the Public Housing Association of Residents; Professor Robert Q. Berry from the Curry School of Education; Kendra Hamilton of Charlottesville City Council & Black Issues in Higher Education; Emily Dreyfus of Legal Aid’s JustChildren; William Harvey, U.Va’s vice president for diversity and equality; Kenneth Jackson, QCC Volunteer. Janet Legro, Youth Minister of St Paul’s Memorial, served as moderator.

Thanks to CPN Volunteer Sean McCord for recording this event.

 

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Should the Virginia Railway Express be extended from Northern Virginia to as far south as Charlottesville? This could be one of the most important transportation questions to be discuss over the next few years, as more and more developments come to Charlottesville and Albemarle County. An overview of the project, which is still just an idea at this point, was given by former City Councilor Meredith Richards at the September meeting of Charlottesville Citizens for Better Rail Alternatives.

 

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Many lectures from the University of Virginia are available through the U.Va podcast. But individual lecture series are beginning to develop their own specialized podcast feeds as well. One such is the History of the Health Sciences series, produced by the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and the University of Virginia School of Medicine Continuing Medical Education Program. The most recent lecture is available here. It’s a talk by Duke University’s Margaret Humphreys about the health of the 180,000 African-Americans who joined the Union Army during the Civil War.

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You can use iTunes to access the entire U.Va Health Sciences series as a podcast. Subscriptions are free, and episodes will be downloaded to your music library.

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http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/library/historical/cmhsl-historical-podcast.xml

 

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The outcry among many in the Muslim community over images of the prophet Mohammed continues to smoulder. It isn’t often that a cartoon can prompt such a reaction. Jen Sorensen, the Charlottesville-based creator of Slowpoke Comics, says the biggest negative reaction she got is when an offended reader offered to pay for her retirement. Sean Tubbs recently met with Sorensen at Court Square Tavern for a chat about her work and her take of the cartoon crisis.

 

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