Author: Coy Barefoot

Anne Marie Slaughter is the Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs at Princeton University, and a Professor of Politics. She’s also on the board of the Council on Foreign Relations, and is the 2007 recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Award for International Law. Slaughter joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to talk about her new book, The Idea That Is America: Keeping Faith With Our Values in A Dangerous World.

“America does stand for a set of values in the world, but those values have become distorted in many ways by the polices of this administration and previous administrations,” she said. “Our greatest leaders, our founders, our presidents, our poets, our song-writers, our folk heroes have talked about these values and understood them.”

Slaughter is also a native of Charlottesville, attended St. Anne Belfield’s, and grew up listening to WINA.

Attorney General Bob McDonnell joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss his views on the “civil remediation fees” which passed the General Assembly earlier this year as a way to help fund transportation. Now, the voters are up in arms over what have been termed “abusive driver fees” and have become the issue of this summer. Bolling also weighs in on alternative ways to replace the transportation funding that may disappear if the General Assembly removes the fees next winter.

Investigative Journalist Dan Olmsted has written some of the best work about the autism epidemic. He joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to discuss his Age of Autism series which includes over 100 columns covering the history and science of autism. Dan recently authored his last installment in the UPI series.

Bob Gibson with the Charlottesville Daily Progress wrote about abusive driver fees in an article posted in this Sunday’s newspaper. He joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss the latest news in the ongoing story.

Congressman Tom Davis (R-11) joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to talk about a tour he is taking across Virginia to drum up support for a potential run for the U.S. Senate. Senator John Warner will decide this fall if he is planning on seeking re-election in 2008.

Jeff Werner is the land use field officer in the Charlottesville office of the Piedmont Environmental Council. He joined Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to weigh in on the recent approval by the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors on the rezoning of several parcels of land around the National Ground Intelligence Center.

In the almost 50 years since the first human being left the atmosphere, no one had ever done so without the help of a government agency. During that time it became common wisdom that space travel was too dangerous, too expensive, and too impractical for anyone other a major government to undertake. But all of that has changed.

Author Michael Belfiore’s new book is called Rocketeers: How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots Is Boldy Privatizing Space. Belfiore joined Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to talk about the future of the industry, which has been fueled by contests like the X-Prize.

David Carr is a senior attorney at the Southern Environmental Law Center, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Carr joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss what the organization does to help protect the area’s natural resources, and what new threats it is seeking to fend off.

J.B. Handley is co-founder of the group Generation Rescue, which advocates for families with children diagnosed with childhood neurological disorders, such as autism or Asperger’s. Members of Generation Rescue believe these illnesses are the result of environmental triggers and can be successfully treated through biomedical intervention. He recently joined Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now.

John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute is having a busy summer, and he begins this episode of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now with Coy Barefoot by describing what’s been going on. Two big issues are on Rutherford’s radar – abusive driver fees and surveillance cameras at traffic lights. On a lighter note, Whitehead is closely following Barry Bonds’ race to surpass Hank Aaron’s home run record, and is not pleased. One of the other stories he’s following is the ongoing saga of Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez.