Author and historian Rick Britton joins Coy Barefoot every week to talk about local history. This week’s discussion begins with a discussion of the term “Hispanic” and then on to a history of the Rotunda.
CRN: City Manager Gary O’Connell
Charlottesville City Manager Gary O’Connell joins Jay James on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss the city response to the drought. Jay also asks O’Connell what he thinks about growth in the County, especially in Biscuit Run. A caller asks O’Connell to ask where the City spends the revenue-sharing money it gets from the County.
CRN: Quite Interesting facts with British comedy producer John Lloyd
Author and producer John Lloyd phones in from England to discuss The Book of General Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong. One of the brains behind Spitting Image, Not the Nine O’Clock News, and Blackadder, Lloyd is one of the producers of a show called QI, which is hosted by Stephen Fry. In this interview with Coy Barefoot, he explains why goldfish are smarter than you think, and why George Washington is not America’s first president. Series 5 of QI will begin in September on Britain’s BBC2.
CRN: Preston Bryant on the future of Fort Monroe
Virginia Secretary of Natural Resources Preston Bryant joins Jay James on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to respond to remarks made by Steve Corneliussen of the group Citizens for a Fort Monroe National Park. Bryant is the chair of the Fort Monroe Federal Area Development Authority, which is charged with charting the 600-acre peninsula’s future as it gets decommissioned in 2011.
CRN: Filmmaker Rom Alejandro on adjusting to Southern California
U.Va graduate Rom Alejandro took off for Hollywood soon after Final Exercises to pursue a career in the film industry. He’s keeping us up to date by phoning in to WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now with Coy Barefoot. Rom talks about the transition processs he’s going through as he realizes just how hard it is to get ahead in the business.
CRN: Election and development news with Charlottesville Tomorrow’s Brian Wheeler
Brian Wheeler of Charlottesville Tomorrow stops by the studio to talk about his organization’s Election Watch coverage. Charlottesville Tomorrow will provide full coverage of all 12 candidates running for the Charlottesville City Council and the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors. The non-partisan group has posted the full video of the first Candidates’ Forum for County, held August 14 by the Farm Bureau.G,V As the election nears, Charlottesville Tomorrow will interview each of the candidates and use their comments in a voter guide to be distributed to every household in Albemarle County and Charlottesville.
In other news, Coy asks Brian to break down a recent rezoning approval granted by the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors to developer Wendell Wood for land near the National Ground Intelligence Center.
The Speed Round also returns in this installment of “WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now!”with Coy Barefoot, with news on the Fifth and Avon project, Albemarle Place, Belvedere, Hollymead Town Center, North Pointe, Old Trail Village, Rivanna Village,
CRN: U.Va Law Professor Brandon Garrett
In April, Jerry Miller became the 200th American released from prison after DNA evidence cleared his name. His case, like the 199 others before him, represented a catastrophic failure in the criminal justice system. When an airplane crashes, investigators pour over the evidence to find out what went wrong and to learn from the experience. The justice system has not done anything similar, but a new study from U.Va Law Professor Brandon Garrett attempts to do so. He examined the two hundred cases in which 200 innocent people served an average of 12 years before being exonerated. He joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss his work.
CRN: Party pundits weigh in on abusive driver fees
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 each Monday for an update on statewide politics, and the topic again this week is the abusive driver fees.
CRN: Rick Britton on the U.Va Cemetery
Historian Rick Britton joins Coy Barefoot to talk about the U.Va Cemetery, which he says predates the founding of the University. The graves of at least three people who died before 1825 lie in the cemetery. He wrote a pamphlet to the burial ground a few years ago. Tune in to find out the answer to this week’s quiz question: What was the previous name of the University of Virginia?
CRN: The future of Fort Monroe
Steve Corneliussen is the vice president of Citizens for a Fort Monroe National Park. Fort Monroe has been an Army base in Hampton Roads since shortly after the War of 1812. The long history and stunning natural beauty of the site are reasons Steve calls it aG,V “national treasure.” The Department of Defense has offered Fort Monroe to Virginia when the Army vacates the property in 2011. Corneliussen’s group would like to see the base transformed into a National Park rather than given over to private developers.
On this installment of WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” with Coy Barefoot, Steve Corneliussen explains why his group takes issue with a plan currently endorsed by Governor Kaine to develop the land. The Civil War Preservation Trust has placed the Fort Monroe site on a list of the ten most endangered battlefields in America.
CRN: Courtney Stuart of the Hook on an arrest in the serial rapist case
Courtney Stuart of the Hook joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss the arrest of a suspect in the serial rapist case. Albemarle County Police announced the arrest of Nathan Antonio Washington in connection with two violent sexual assaults earlier this decade. Stuart describes what they had to say, and what the next steps are in this ongoing investigation.
CRN: Sandy McAdams of Daedalus Books remembers Charlottesville in the 70’s
One of the downtown fixtures of the City of Charlottesville for over 30 years is Sandy McAdams, the owner of Daedalus Bookshop. He joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville to talk about the challenges he’s had operating a business off the Downtown Mall. McAdams moved to Charlottesville in 1974, at a time when 29 North “had four buildings on it.” He and Coy talk about what our city was like in the mid-seventies, when the creation of the downtown mall was causing controversey. But McAdams and other business owners persevered while East Main Street was bricked over, and brought attention to Charlottesville by helping to create the famed C&O Restaurant.