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Charlottesville resident and science writer Jennifer Ackerman’s new book is Sex, Sleep, Eat, Drink, Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body. She joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to talk about her career, her latest work, and what happens in the body over the course of 24 hours.
John Hager is the chair of the Republican Party of Virginia. He joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to talk about the party’s decision to use a convention to nominate its candidate for the U.S. Senate being vacated by Senator John Warner. Among other topics, Chairman Hager also talked about the recent passing of Congresswoman Jo Ann Davis and the fact that her husband has already stepped forward to succeed her in a special election. John Hager is the former Lieutenant Governor of Virginia and a former State Chairman of the Sorensen Institute.
Cheryl Gomez is the Director of the Utilities for the University of Virginia, and she joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to talk about UVa’s efforts to conserve energy and water. For instance, the University reached its peak water consumption in 1999, and has reduced usage by a third in that time. Gomez discusses that and other initiatives on this installment of the show.
Richard Bean and Jean Rinaldi run Double H Farm in Nelson County. They were working on their farm recently when ten Department of Agriculture and Consumer agents, a state trooper, and the Nelson County sheriff swarmed their property, handcuffed them, hauled them away in separate cruisers, confiscated their computers, and doused all of the meat with bleach. The charge, according to the state, was that the pair were using incorrect labels on their products. The meat had not officially been certified as organic, even though Bean and Rinaldi contend it was. Local farmer Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms has had similar run-ins with state officials, and he joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to talk about the regulatory obstacles local farms face.
Read the discussion at cvillenews.com.
Bob Gibson of the Daily Progress joins Coy Barefoot each Monday to talk about Virginia politics. Former Senator George Allen has joined the presidential campaign of Fred Thompson as co-chair. Bob talks about what that might mean for Allen’s political future. What implications might that have for the Governor’s race in 2009, and what else might happen two years from now? Also, the race for the House of Delegates 59th District is heating up, with Independent incumbent Watkins Abbit Jr. facing a tough race with Democrat Connie Brennan. That and more on this installment of WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!”
Hawes Spencer of The Hook drops by WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to talk with Coy Barefoot about this week’s cover story. In 1982, 64 brothers of Sigma Chi boarded the back of a rented U-Haul for a road trip to Lynchburg. They never got there.
To say that Tom Loach is dissatisfied with the way that Albemarle County has handled the Crozet Master Plan might be an understatement. He’s livid. Loach joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to describe what he thinks went wrong after the County doubled the build-out population from 12,000 to 24,000.
Nationally recognized musician Corey Harris was one of a recent recipient of a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation. He joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to talk about how he learned about the award, and what he plans to do with it. Corey also treats listeners with a song or two.
John Semmelhack and Jane Fisher are with the Charlottesville Community Design Center. That’s the group that’s been organizing the Market Value Competition, an architectural contest to envision the future of the two parking lots on Water Street in downtown Charlottesville. They’ll announce the finalists tonight at their headquarters on the Downtown Mall. Fisher and Semmelhack join Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to talk about the competition.
Update: Dave McNair has theG,V story on the winners at The Hook.
U.Va Physics Professor Lou Bloomfield is the co-host of a new show on the Discovery Channel called “Some Assembly Required.” The program, which debuts in late December, will seek to explain the science behind how things are made. Bloomfield joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to talk about what viewers can expect.
Shaun Kenney is the Director of Communications for the Republican Party of Virginia. Danae Jones is the Director of Communications for the Democratic Party of Virginia. They join Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to talk about the latest in state politics.
Charlottesville historian and author Rick Britton joins Coy Barefoot each week on “WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now!” to talk about our area’s past. These days he’s working on a map of the Argonne, where the last major battle of World War I was fought. U.Va alumni James Rogers McConnell ’08 signed up as an aviator before the Americans officially entered the war, before being shot down in March of 1917. Britton tells his story in this installment.
This week’s quiz question is, who sculpted the statue of McConnell that stands outside Alderman Library?
Photo used with Permission of Documenting the American South, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries.