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Second-year U.Va law student Karin Agness is the founder of the Network for Englightened Women, an organization that claims to be “the nation’s premier club for conservative university women.” Agness talks about the alternative perspective provided by NEW, and offers her perspective on the Hillary Clinton campaign.
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George Washington wrote an astonishing number of letters, both personal and professional. The majority of the over 140,000 known documents are from his years as Commander-in-Chief during the Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783. Historian Edward Lengel’s new book is called This Glorious Struggle: George Washington’s Revolutionary War Letters. Lengel is the associate editor of the Papers of George Washington at the University of Virginia.
Dr. Arthur Tim Garson is Provost of the University of Virginia, and the former Dean of the Medical School. He joins Coy Barefoot on the February 14th edition of WINA’s Charlottesville “Right Now! to weigh in on the health care debate currently going on in the U.S. Presidential Race. Garson is also the author of Health Care Half Truths: Too Many Myths, Not Enough Reality.
Brian Wheeler is the executive director of Charlottesville Tomorrow, a non-partisan organization that covers growth and development issues in the area. This week
Former Charlottesville Mayor and Delegate Mitch Van Yahres died last week at the age of 81. On this episode of WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!”, Coy Barefoot speaks with many people who knew Mitch Van Yahres.
“Mitch was a Delegate who at times was known as the patron saint of unpopular causes,” said Charlottesville Daily Progress reporter Bob Gibson. Gibson relates the tale of how Van Yahres posthumously endorsed Barack Obama.
“His legacy with me is that I want to grow up and be like him,” said his long-time aide Connie Jorgenson.
“Mitch was always about cultivating the next generation of leadership,” said Holly Hatcher of the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation.
“Mitch Van Yahres’ footprints will be seen forever in Charlottesville, Virginia,” said Eugene Williams, former director of the Dogwood Housing Limited Partnership.
Bob Gibson of the Charlottesville Daily Progress joins Coy Barefoot on the February 11 edition to describe what the candidates were up to on the eve of the Virginia presidential primary. Gibson also talks about the passing of former Mayor and Delegate Mitch Van Yahres, Clinton’s question and answer period with Larry Sabato’s class, the Jefferson-Jackson dinner from Saturday, and more.
Coy Barefoot says that Senator John McCain and former President Bill Clinton will both be guests on Newsradio 1070 WINA’s Charlottesville Live program tomorrow morning.
Super Tuesday might more appropriately be called Super Wednesday. That’s what political analyst Dave Wasserman calls this past week’s election returns, which he says were only beginning to make sense until the day after the primaries and caucuses. Wasserman is the House editor for the Cook Political Report, and he phoned in to the February 6 edition of WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to talk about the ascendancy of Senator John McCain, and about the “race for the ages” that is currently going on between Senators Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama.
The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors voted 4-2 this week to approve three ordinances designed to protect rural areas. However, many people felt the new rules infringe on landowner’s property rights. Supervisor David Slutzky (Rio) joined Coy Barefoot the day after the vote to explain why he supported the ordinances.
Activists Betty Mooney and former City Councilor Kevin Lynch joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to explain why they’ve formed the group Citizens for a Sustainable Water Plan. Essentially, they feel that the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority’s plan to build a new dam at the Ragged Mountain Reservoir is not environmentally friendly. The Charlottesville City Council and the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors approved the concept in the spring of 2006 to build the dam, as well as a new pipeline between Ragged Mountain and the South Fork Rivanna Reservoir.
Author Joseph Cummins‘ new book traces the various ways in which American elections have been influenced through chicanery. He joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to discuss Anything for a Vote: Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots and October Surprises in U.S. Presidential Election Campaigns. After the 2004 campaign and the “Swift-boating” of Senator John Kerry, Cummins said he wanted to write a book that describes some of the country’s least flattering examples of democracy, and the result is a year-by-year catalog of various dirty tricks that have helped elect our presidents – from both parties.
Some fun insults are used in this interview: hermaphrodite, atheist, and “lady of the night.”
Local history takes center stage every Friday when Rick Britton joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!”
This week on the show, Rick previews a lecture series he’ll be presenting at the Senior Center on Civil War related day-trips. One of them will include a trip to Port Republic, and Rick explains just whath happened there.
But in the main topic for this week, Rick tells the story of three women with connection to Albemarle County. First, the Langhorne sisters. They were the daughters of Chiswell Dabney Langhorne, and moved to western Albemarle in 1894. Irene became the model for one of the “Gibson girls” and Nancy wound up becoming Lady Astor, the first woman to be sat in the British House of Commons. Rick also has the story of Maude Coleman Woods, a Charlottesville woman who became one of the first people to be called “Miss America.” However, the story doesn’t end well, as Rick explains.
John Whitehead is the founder and CEO of the Rutherford Institute joins Coy Barefoot on the January 28 edition of WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” for a conversation about the state of civil liberties and individual rights. Conversations include: