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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… […]

Virginia Military Institute in the Civil War

Col. Keith Gibson speaking before a packed house at the Charlottesville Senior Center.

Regular listeners of our podcasts might know Rick Britton. He’s a historian and cartographer and a frequent guest on WINA’s Charlottesville Right Now with Coy Barefoot. Rick also organizes a Civil War lecture and day-trip series in conjunction with the Charlottesville [...]

Fifth Congressional District Candidates Showcase

The Congressional Candidates Showcase Forum is a biennial event sponsored by the Senior Statesmen of Virginia. This year, two candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives, Democratic incumbent Tom Perriello and Independent challenger Jeffrey Clark spoke at the event. Republican challenger Robert Hurt declined the SSV’s invitation to attend.

The event took place at the [...]

The Battle of Malvern Hill

Robert Krick speaking before Civil War enthusiasts at the Charlottesville Senior Center.

Regular listeners of our podcasts might know Rick Britton. He’s an historian and cartographer and a frequent guest on WINA’s Charlottesville Right Now with Coy Barefoot. Rick also organizes a Civil War lecture and day-trip series in conjunction with the Charlottesville Senior [...]

Embattled Eden

Troy Marshall speaking before a packed house at the Senior Center Wednesday.

Regular listeners of our podcast or our live streaming feed might know Rick Britton. He’s a historian and cartographer and a frequent guest on WINA’s Charlottesville Right Now with Coy Barefoot. Rick also organizes a Civil War lecture and day-trip series in [...]

Left of Center: Kent Willis of the ACLU on Climategate

Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has invoked the Patriot Act-inspired Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act to demand that the University of Virginia turn over years of private correspondence between former professor Michael Mann and other climate researchers.  The demand conspicously omits one requirement of FATA — spelling out exactly how Mann [...]

Public Perception and Science of Climate Change

Robert McGrath

Robert McGrath moved to Charlottesville in 2007 after retiring from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. For almost a decade before retirement he held concurrent positions as Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and also Vice President for Brookhaven National Laboratory Affairs. He is Professor of Physics [...]

The Battle of Big Bethel

Rick Britton

Regular listeners of our podcast or our live streaming feed might know Rick Britton. He’s a historian and cartographer and a frequent guest on WINA’s Charlottesville Right Now with Coy Barefoot. Rick also organizes a Civil War lecture and day-trip series in conjunction with the Charlottesville Senior Center.

On Wednesday May 19th Rick [...]

Preview of the 2010 Midterm Congressional Elections

Isaac Wood

Isaac Wood, House Race Editor for Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, previewed the 2010 midterm elections for Congress that will take place in November.  Mr Wood spoke at the May 12, 2010 meeting of the Senior Statesmen of Virginia. The meeting was held at The Charlottesville [...]

Left of Center: Healthcare Reform: What's Right and What's Left?

Obama and the Democratic Congress passed landmark healthcare reform after a rancorous year-long struggle. Republicans are threatening to make “Repeal and Replace” their fall campaign slogan, while Obama has welcomed that referendum and polls have shown a bump in public support for the reform now that it’s law.

What did the law get right? How much will it really do for cost-cutting, expanding coverage, and improving quality? What major flaws of our system remain yet to be dealt with? How will the average American be impacted by the reform? What will it mean for political fortunes in the fall and beyond?

Leading this month’s Left of Center discussion are three University of Virginia professors:

Continue reading Left of Center: Healthcare Reform: What’s Right and What’s Left?

The State of the City and County

Ann Mallek, chairman of the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors, and Dave Norris, mayor of the City of Charlottesville spoke at the March 10, 2010 meeting of the Senior Statesmen of Virginia held at The Charlottesville Senior Center. Following brief opening remarks by the participants, questions were taken from the audience. The program was [...]

Characters of Central Virginia: John Chaloner

Rick Britton

Award-winning historian and cartographer Rick Britton is frequent guest on WINA’s Charlottesville Right Now with Coy Barefoot. In January and February of 2010 Rick presented six lectures in a new series entitled "Characters of Central Virginia: The Famous, the Infamous, & the Undeniably Odd". The series was held at the Charlottesville Senior [...]

Characters of Central Virginia: Frank Dabney Peregoy

Rick Britton

Award-winning historian and cartographer Rick Britton is frequent guest on WINA’s Charlottesville Right Now with Coy Barefoot. In January and February of 2010 Rick presented six lectures in a new series entitled "Characters of Central Virginia: The Famous, the Infamous, & the Undeniably Odd". The series was held at the Charlottesville Senior [...]