Author: Coy Barefoot

Brian Wheeler of Charlottesville Tomorrow joins Coy Barefoot each week on WINAGuv,!v,,us CharlottesvilleGuv,!vDjnjRight Now to discuss growth and development issues. On this show, Coy and Brian start with a discussion about the importance of public engagement in local government decision-making.G,V Coy highlights the in-depth report by Charlottesville Tomorrow summarizing the land deal related to the National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) located on Route 29 north of Charlottesville.G,V That report includes the first detailed map of the land that developer Wendell Wood requested that Albemarle move within the County’s growth area to support his private transaction to sell land to the federal government for NGIC’s expansion.Coy and Brian are joined in studio by developer Wendell Wood who explains the background of his negotiations with the federal government related to NGIC.G,V Wood described how, in 2006, the federal government had only half of the about $14 million they had promised him for 47 acres adjacent to the existing NGIC facility.G,V Wood said he felt it was his civic duty to help NGIC expand and remain in Charlottesville, but that he didn’t think he should totally subsidize the transaction.G,V Thus he requested the County support him by passing a resolution of intent to allow a future land swap moving 30 acres of other rural land into the growth area so he could recoup some of the $7 million that the U.S. Congress did not appropriate for the land buy.G,V He highlighted the 800-100 jobs an expanded NGIC will bring to Charlottesville as the Department of Defense relocates personnel from other facilities near Washington, D.C.

Arin Sime is the libertarian candidate for Virginia’s 24th Senate District, and is facing incumbent Republican Emmett Hanger and Democrat David Cox in the November election. He joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to talk about his positions, and why he thinks he deserves to win the seat. Sime lives in Crozet, which is part of the 24th District.

Bob Gibson is the political columnist for the Charlottesville Daily Progress, and joins Coy Barefoot every week on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to talk about Virginia politics. This week, the conversation goes from summer vacations, to the presidential race, and the upcoming legislative races in the Old Dominion. Recent Repulican primary wins by far-right conservatives could put control of the Virginia Senate in play.

Gordon Walker is the chief executive officer for the Jefferson Board for Aging, and he joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss the area’s elderly population.

The Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, Bill Bolling, joined WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss his 100 Ideas for Virginia’s Future initiative with host/producer Coy Barefoot. Issues include taxes, fiscal responsibility, illegal immigration, public education, teacher salaries and tenure, “green government,” and more. Lt. Gov. Bolling also shares his thoughts on the recent primaries in Virginia.

Dr. Quentin Kidd is with the political science department at Christopher Newport University. He phoned in to WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to speak with Coy Barefoot about how the recent primaries in Virginia have changed the equation in this year’s elections.

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Joe Bageant joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss his new book Deerhunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War.

Professional mediator Mark Rubin is a Senior Advisor to Governor Tim Kaine. He was a guest on Thursday’s edition of “CharlottesvilleGuv,!vDjkjRight Now!” Rubin is currently the only mediator serving as an advisor on the senior staff of a U.S. governor. He discusses the tools of mediation and how they are being applied in creative ways to the processes of government. Rubin tells us how mediation is opening the door on a promising new approach to creating public policy in America. We may be witnessing the future of government right here in Virginia.

Hobey Bauhan is the president of the Virginia Poultry Federation, and a graduate of the Sorensen Institute Political Leaders Program. He joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right now to talk about his work and his industry, which employs over 10,000 people in the Commonwealth. Virginia ranks 4th in the nation in turkey production, and 10th in chicken production, and this brings in $832 million. Poultry is our state’s biggest agricultural sector. Bauhan also talks about some of the labor issues currently facing his industry.

Thomas Carey is one of the nation’s top investigators into the Roswell incident, and the co-author of a new book called Witness to Roswell: Unmasking the 60-Year Cover-Up. He joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss what he thinks happened back then. Carey and his co-author Donald Schmitt spoke with people who he says so far haven’t come forward, retracing the evidence that he says suggests at least one UFO crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, in July of 1947.