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Bob Gibson of the Charlottesville Daily Progress joins Coy Barefoot every Monday on WINAvDj(tm)s vDjnjCharlottesvillevDj”Right Now!vDjkj to talk about Virginia politics. This week:
Hawes Spencer, editor and publisher of the Hook, joined Coy Barefoot on the March 7 edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss a range of topics in the region.
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Qian Cai is the director of the Demographics and Workforce unit at the Weldon-Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. She joined Coy Barefoot on the February 6 edition of WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to discuss the Center’s recent study of Virginia’s Hispanic population.
“Virginia’s Hispanic population tripled from 150,000 in 1990 to more than 460,000 in 2006,” Cai said.
Liz Chadderon of the Chadderdon Group, a political consultant firm, joins Coy Barefoot on WINAvDj(tm)s vDjnjCharlottesvillevDj”Right Now!vDjkj to talk about the Democratic primaries. Chadderdon was surprised with Senator Hillary ClintonvDj(tm)s win in Texas.
vDjnjI did predict that [Tuesday] would not decide anything for us, but I have to say I didnvDj(tm)t think it would be that indecisive,vDjkj Chadderdon said.V vDjnjItvDj(tm)s a brand new day in this campaign.vDjkj Chadderdon and Coy talk about the effectiveness of negative campaigning, the impact of the Michigan and Florida primaries not counting towards delegate counts, and what it means that Republican Senator John McCain has his partyvDj(tm)s nomination outright.
Charlottesville artist Michael Fitts was a guest on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” with Coy Barefoot on March 5, 2008. Fitts is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University who currently has a show at the C&O Gallery. He’s also the art designer for the U.Va Alumni Association, and discusses his work with Coy.
Diane Ackerman is the author of the best-selling A Natural History of the Senses, among many other books of non-fiction and poetry. Her essays on nature and human nature have appeared in National Geographic, the New Yorker, the New York Times, Smithsonian, Parade and elsewhere. Ackerman’s new book is The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story, and she joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to discuss how the book came to be.
Delegate Jennifer McClellan (D-71) joins Coy Barefoot on WINAvDj(tm)s vDjnjCharlottesvillevDj”Right Now!vDjkj to discuss the final days of the regular session of the General Assembly. However, McClellan says she thinks the two Houses have to come back into special session to discuss transportation and to pass a budget. Coy also asks McClellanvDj(tm)s thoughts on VDOTvDj(tm)s 44% reduction in road construction funds, the Virginia Supreme CourtvDj(tm)s ruling on the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority and her thoughts on the possibility of a gas tax.
vDjnjYou do not want to balkanize the Virginia transportation system where youvDj(tm)ll have localities that can afford roads have roads, and those that canvDj(tm)t, donvDj(tm)t,vDjkj McClellan said.
The compulsion to do better touches us all as do the road blocks that impede our betterment: fatigue, inadequate resources and our imperfections. Yet, there is perhaps no other field in which improvement is more important than medicine, where the difference between saving or losing a life is in the smallest of details. Dr. Atul Gawande is a MacArthur Fellow and a general surgeon at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and a staff writer for the New Yorker magazine, as well as an associate professor of Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health.
Dr. Gawande’s new book is Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance, and he joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now! to talk about ways to improve the health care system.
Bob Gibson, political reporter for the Charlottesville Daily Progress, joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville Right Now to talk about politics in the state and the nation. Bob and Coy chat about:
David Hamilton is the project manager of Bundoran Farm, a rural preservation development to be located south of Charlottesville in North Garden. Hamilton joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville Right Now! to discuss the project and what it means for Albemarle County’s rural countryside. Bundoran is being planned by Qroe development, and Hamilton describes the company’s philosophy.
What we’ve come up and refined over 20 or 30 years is an approach to land conversation and development which maintains a working farm, Hamilton said. Bundoran is the company’s first development outside of New England. About one hundred homes will be built in this unusual new neighborhood.
Best-selling author David Kirby is an investigative journalist whose book Evidence of Harm tracked how mercury in vaccines may be connected to the autism epidemic. In a detailed article published February 25 on the Huffington Post, Kirby reported that the federal government has conceded a case before the Court of Federal Claims that a mercury-based preservative in a vaccine may have contributed to a child’s autism:
“The child’s claim against the government — that mercury-containing vaccines were the cause of her autism — was supposed to be one of three “test cases” for the thimerosal-autism theory currently under consideration by a three-member panel of Special Masters, the presiding justices in Federal Claims Court.”
Kirby goes on to detail the case in this February 28 installment of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now.
“This should change the tenor of the debate,” Kirby said. Could mitochondrial disease play a roll? Kirby wants to know more.
Brian Wheeler is executive director of Charlottesville Tomorrow, a non-partisan organization that covers growth and development issues in our area. This week on the show: