Month: April 2009

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Charlottesville-Right Now: Brian Wheeler

Brian Wheeler, Executive Director of Charlottesville Tomorrow joined Charlottesville Right Now to discuss growth and development issues. This week on the show:

  • Brian congratulates the Albemarle High School boy’s relay team for breaking the junior world record in the 4×800, set at the Penn Relays (Daily Progress)
  • The three City Democrats running for City Council recently appeared at a candidates’ forum sponsored by Charlottesville Tomorrow and the Free Enterprise Forum (Charlottesville Tomorrow)
  • The new daily train from Lynchburg to Washington, D.C. will start operating in October, but the schedule may make the journey a lot less appealing to people who want to do business there. (Charlottesville Tomorrow)
  • Upgrades for the Moores Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant will be cheaper than expected, but will still cost $40.3 million. The goal is to reduce the amount of nutrients that are released from the plant into the watershed. (Charlottesville Tomorrow)
  • Albemarle County Service Authority defers decision on approving a dredging feasibility study (Charlottesville Tomorrow)



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Wake-Up Call: On Leadership, Iraq, and Katrina

On the April 26 edition of the Wake-Up Call, Rick talks with UVA McIntire School Professor Tom Bateman, a specialist in organizational behavior who conducts research on leadership, motivation, decision making, personality, stress, and managerial goals. Professor Bateman recently wrote on article entitled Leading for Results: Brief but powerful lessons from Katrina and Iraq, an examination of how successful leadership can be identified by its impact.

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The Battle of Monocacy

Marc Leepson

Marc Leepson

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 April 15th, 2009 journalist and historian Marc Leepson—author of Desperate Engagement: How a Little-Known Civil War Battle Saved Washington, D.C., and Changed American History—spoke on the July 9th, 1864, Battle of Monocacy, which took place just south of historic Frederick, Maryland. If Union Gen. Lew Wallace (who later penned Ben Hur), had not thrown together a 6,000-man scratch force and fought the delaying action, Confederate Gen. Jubal Early’s 15,000-man veteran corps may well have marched into the Federal capital, seized the U.S. Treasury along with millions of dollars-worth of military supplies, and forced the Lincoln administration to flee.

This is part one of a seven part series. The event is held every third Wednesday at the Charlottesville Senior Center.