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Preston Bryant is Virginia’s Secretary of Natural Resources, and a monthly guest on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now with Coy Barefoot. This month, he discusses how the General Assembly session has dealt with issues under his administration. He also gives his thoughts on the transportation impasse between the House and Senate.
Michael Rein, M.D., and Mark Stoler, M.D., of UVA give the 2007 Gibson Lecture of the Cancer Center, discussing the new vaccine against cancer-causing strains of human papilloma virus that promises to virtually eradicate cervical cancer, yet Gardasil’s use is not without controversy. Who should be vaccinated? At what age? At what risks? Who decides? Should vaccination be mandatory? Who pays?
Scott Acton is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at U.Va, and the director of the Virginia Image and Video Analysis program. He describes his work by telling the story of how he helped a researcher determine if a man in an old photograph was none other than an elderly Billy the Kid. This presentation is part of The Best of U.Va: A Collection of Unforgettable Lectures, a popular one-credit course.
Charlottesville Tomorrow is an organization that tracks the status of development projects in the area surrounding our fair city. Executive Director Brian Wheeler joins Coy Barefoot each week on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to update listeners on growth issues. This week, he and Coy discuss changes being considered by the Charlottesville Planning Commission, the possibility of funding for the Meadowcreek Parkway, and the latest on efforts to keep parts of Albemarle County as rural.
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Rick Britton joins the show every week for a discussion of regional and national history. This week’s topics include a discussion of how Charlottesville at the end of the Confederacy.
Chad Dodson, assistant professor of psychology, discusses his work on the differences eyewitness testimony between younger and older adults.
 (left to right) Richelle Claiborne, Matt Fletcher, Scott Keith, Brandy Maloney and Jude Silveira star in The Violet Hour Photo credit: Jack Looney, C-Ville Weekly |
If your life was a novel, would you read the last page first? That’s one of the questions explored in Richard Greenberg’s The Violet Hour, presented by Live Arts in the Upstage Theater February 23 through March 17.The play takes place in 1919 and tells the story of John Pace Seavering, a young publisher who only has enough money to pay for one book. Both his best friend and his lover are courting him to publish their manuscript, until one day a mysterious machine appears which begins spewing out pages of novels from the end of the 20th Century.
I stopped by before a recent rehearsal to find out more about the play, and spoke with director Kay Leigh Ferguson and actor Matt Fletcher. |
On February 15, 2007, there was a quarterly meeting of the Planning and Coordination Council (PACC) which has representation from the University of Virginia, the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors, and Charlottesville City Council. The Council received an update on development and transportation issues in what is known as Area B. The September 2004 Southern Urban Area B Study identified road interconnections that could be built to enlarge the grid of streets serving the area around the Fontaine Research Park, the University’s Stadium Road area, the Fry’s Spring neighborhood in the City, and County developments along Old Lynchburg Road and Sunset Avenue. [Read more on Charlottesville Tomorrow’s blog]
The green building movement has taken Central Virginia by storm, perhaps in part because of the local presence of former U.Va Architecture Dean William McDonough. On the February 18th edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, Rick Moore explores the environmental architecture with a panel of guests and why you should consider going green for your next home.
Bob Pineo is local architect and developer. Betsy Roettger, is professor of architecture at the University of Virginia. Deb Brown is the account manager for Amvic Building Systems, which makes something called insulated concrete forms. Mark Greenfield is a subcontractor who specializes in using ICFs in his work.
The panel discusses what makes a building green, how green U.Va is, ways to increase energy efficiency in your home, and the financial costs of green methods. There’s also a definition of LEED, a building standard run by a group called the U.S. Green Building Council.
| Pulitzer Prize winning author Edward Humes is the author of Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America’s Soul. The book takes a look at the conflict between religion and science, as seen in a landmark court case in Dover, Pennsylvania. That community was the battle ground on the teaching of “intelligent design.” Humes joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss the case and his book.
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Chris Gates is the past president of the National Civic League, and the executive director of Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement. He joins Coy Barefoot from his office in Colorado on the February 15th edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now. The conversation begins with Gate’s thoughts on the 2008 presidential race. He warns against relying too much on 2007 polls to predict who will take the Oval Office in 2009. Gates also says the world will be watching the race like never before to see how the world’s lone superpower sees the world.
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Attorney General Bob McDonnell joins Coy Barefoot in studio on the Wednesday, February 14th edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now. McDonnell braved the ice-laden streets of Virginia for a tour of Central Virginia this week. He takes calls from listeners on steps Virginia might take to stop illegal immigration, a recent Marc Fisher blog entry on McDonnell’s efforts to protect Virginians from scams, and the transportation crisis currently facing the Commonwealth. The attorney general also discusses his legislative program to crack down on Internet predators.
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