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  • Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority (RWSA) Board Meeting September 28, 2010 6:15 pm
    ACSA Offices 168 Spotnap Road, Charlottesville, Virginia 22911 Tuesday, September 28, 2010, 2:15 – 3:15pm An agenda will be posted for this meeting as soon as it is available. More info: rivanna.org… […]
  • Board of Architectural Review Meeting September 21, 2010 9:00 pm
    City Council Chambers Tuesday, September 21, 2010, 5 – 9pm The agenda for this meeting will be posted as soon as it is available. More info: www.charlottesville.org… […]
  • Free Enterprise Forum Luncheon - Secretary of Transportation Sean Connaughton September 21, 2010 3:30 pm
    Holiday Inn - University Area1901 Emmet StreetCharlottesville, VA 22901 Tuesday, September 21, 2010, 11:30am – 2pm The Charlottesville Regional Chamber number one public policy issue is transportation in the Greater Charlottesville community. Virginia Secretary of Transportation, Sean T. Connaughton will address transportation today and going into the future […]
  • Charlottesville City Council Meeting September 20, 2010 11:00 pm
    City Hall, Council Chambers Monday, September 20, 2010, 7 – 10pm The agenda will be posted as soon as it is available. More info: www.charlottesville.org… […]
  • Albemarle County Service Authority Board of Directors' Meeting September 16, 2010 1:00 pm
    ACSA Office Building168 Spotnap RoadCharlottesville, VA 22911 Thursday, September 16, 2010, 9 – 11am The agenda will be posted as soon as it is available. More info: www.acsanet.com […]
  • City Planning Commission Meeting September 14, 2010 10:30 pm
    City Hall, City Council Chambers Tuesday, September 14, 2010, 6:30 – 11pm (This is a tentative agenda and could change before the meeting occurs)II. REGULAR MEETING -- 5:30 P.M. A. COMMISSIONERS' REPORTSB. UNIVERSITY REPORT C. CHAIR'S REPORTD. ANNUAL MEETING 1. Election of Officers 2. Review of Annual ReportE. DEPARTMENT OF NDS/STAFF REPORTS/WORK P […]
  • Albemarle County Planning Commission Meeting September 14, 2010 10:00 pm
    County Office Building, Lane Auditorium Tuesday, September 14, 2010, 6 – 8pm A worksession is scheduled with the Planning Commission for the purpose of soliciting additional direction in the site plan and subdivision review process. The materials presented to the Board along with a summary of the roundtable comments and ARB comments will be presented. More i […]
  • Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Showcase September 12, 2010 4:00 pm
    Virginia Foundation for the Humanities145 Ednam Drive, Charlottesville, VA 22903-4629 Sunday, September 12, 2010, 12 – 5pm The Virginia Folklife Program (VFP) will present its seventh annual Folklife Apprenticeship Showcase on Sunday, September 12th, Noon – 5:00 p.m. at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH) Conference Center. The one-day festival […]
  • Albemarle County Board of Supervisors Meeting September 8, 2010 10:00 pm
    County Office Building, Lane Auditorium Wednesday, September 8, 2010, 6 – 9pm The agenda will be posted as soon as it is available. More info: www.albemarle.org… […]
  • Charlottesville City Council Meeting September 7, 2010 11:00 pm
    City Hall, Council Chambers Tuesday, September 7, 2010, 7 – 10pm The agenda will be posted as soon as it is available. More info: www.charlottesville.org… […]

Local Democrats on the future of the party

At the November 21 Democratic breakfast, a panel of Virginia Democratic Party leaders spoke about the future of the party following the recent and disappointing elections. The panel included:

David Brown, Charlottesville City Councilor and Committee member
Sarah Buckley, aide to Delegate David Toscano, organizer of Charlottesville-Albemarle Young Democrats and Vice President for Campaigns for the [...]

Senator Deeds addresses Charlottesville Democrats

On Saturday, April 19th, Senator Creigh Deeds addressed a small crowd at the Charlottesville-Albemarle Democratic Breakfast, and reviewed the recent General Assembly, the one-day veto session scheduled for April 23rd, as well as a possible special session on transportation. Deeds is in his 17th year in the legislature, and has announced he will seek [...]

Local Democrats explain delegate selection process

One of the hottest clean political stories of the year is the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Senator Barack Obama currently has a slight lead over Senator Hillary Clinton in the delegate count. But, how does the process really work?

That was the general topic of the Charlottesville / Albemarle Democratic breakfast for March [...]

Upper Mattaponi Chief tells Democrats why his tribe deserves federal recognition

The state of Virginia recognizes eight Indian tribes, six of whom are seeking federal recognition so they can have more self-governance and self-reliance.  On January 19, 2008, Chief Kenneth Adams of the Upper Mattaponi updated a crowd assembled at the monthly breakfast of the Charlottesville and Albemarle County Democrats on the status of pending [...]

Haiti Today and the Grison-Garde Community

The Orphanage and School at Grison-Garde, Haiti
Haiti is the topic for the March 2007 Charlottesville-Albemarle Democratic Breakfast.Several doctors routinely travel to the island nation to work at the Tovar Clinic in the rural community of Grison-Garde. There’s also an orphanage there, administered by Dr. Ray Ford. Ford’s son Mike spoke about the region, and [...]

Charlottesville-Albemarle Democratic Breakfast: Are electronic voting machines vulnerable?

Are electronic voting machines vulnerable to computer hackers? That’s the topic of the January Charlottesville Albemarle Democratic Breakfast. A panel of speakers discuss serious software issues as well as recent controversies. Errors in counting, confusing displays and lack of documentation, and discuss possible paths forward.

The moderator is Jim Heilman, a former registrar in Albemarle [...]

Implications of the Marshall / Newman “Marriage” Amendment

On September 16th, the Charlottesville-Albemarle Democratic Breakfast featured a discussion of the Implications of the Marshall / Newman “Marriage” Amendment.

The event was moderated by Katherine McNamara of the online journal archipelago, and the panel includes Mark Usry of Equality Virginia, Anne Coughlin from the U.Va School of Law, Claire Kaplan of Sexual and Domestic [...]

Bob Gibson talks to area Democrats about the news business, campaign strategies

Political reporter Bob Gibson of the Charlottesville Daily Progress was the guest at the July 15 Democratic Breakfast. He spoke candidly about his long tenure at the paper, the news business, and the upcoming election. This may be a long podcast, but listening will give you great insight into what’s happening in the Democratic [...]

City Council candidates speak at Democratic Breakfast

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 [...]

Ewert and Weed Meet in First Debate for Democratic Nomination to 5th House District

Could this be the year that the Democratic party can beat Virgil Goode in the Fifth Congressional District? He was elected to the seat twice as a Democrat before becoming an independent in 2000 and switching parties in 2002. Ever since, Democrats have been looking for a way to knock him off.

This year, two [...]