Author: SeanTubbs

Last Thursday, the group Public Policy Virginia held a public forum on the use of biofuels to help ease the nation’s addiction to oil. Dan Daniels of the Charlottesville Podcasting Network has edited down the event to a one-hour digest. Speakers include: Tom Whipple, columnist for the Falls Church News-Press and editor of a daily newsletter on Peak Oil; Kevin Comer, Senior Project Manager with Antares Group, Inc.; Chad Freckmann, Executive Director of Blue Ridge Clean Fuels and organizer of the quarterly Virginia Biofuels Forum; and Al Weed, Chairman of Public Policy Virginia.

This Public Policy Virginia event received corporate support from Colonial Auto Center, Jim Price Chevrolet, Greenlight Energy, and Piedmont Equipment Company/John Deere, Whole Foods Market and Old Mill Power Company. The forum was co-sponsored by Democracy for America, the Virginia Organizing Project, the Virginia Grassroots Coalition, the League of Women Voters, Piedmont Environmental Council, the Piedmont Group of the Sierra Club, Blue Ridge Clean Fuels, and the UVA student Environmental Science Organization.

We’re pleased to post a link to a new podcast produced here in Charlottesville. Canine Campus promises Positive Dog Training in a series of podcasts on Adult and Adolescent Obedience. In this second of two episodes produced so far, Trainer Deven Gaston digs deep in to the fundamentals of something called “positive reinforcement.”

Voters in Charlottesville will go to the polls this may to elect two city councilors and three members of the school board. Council has always been elected, but this is the first time in several decades that the electorate has a chance to decide who will govern the city’s schools. Though the elections are non-partisan, Charlottesville city Democrats held the first of many candidates forums on Saturday, March 18, with all six candidates in attendance. The event moderated by Sean O’Brien of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership, who now takes over our recording.

(00:00 – 03:13) – Introductions
(03:13 – 05:56) – Vance High’s opening statement
(05:56 – 08:16) – Sue Lewis’s opening statement
(08:16 – 11:56) – Juandiego Wade’s opening statement
(11:56 – 15:30) – Leah Puryear’s opening statement
(15:30 – 18:08) – Charlie Kollmansperger’s opening statement
(18:08 – 21:15) – Ned Michie’s opening statement
(21:15 – 29:19) – Q1: What is the candidate’s definition of achievement?
(29:19 – 39:53) – Q2: How can the school system help at-risk students? Would a charter school be an answer worth considering?
(39:53 – 50:32) – Q3: What do you think about school uniforms and single sex education?
(50:32 – 1:20:10) – Questions from the audience, addressed to a single candidate
(1:20:10 – 1:21:58) – Charlie Kollmansperger’s closing statement
(1:21:58 – 1:24:43) – Ned Michie’s closing statement
(1:24:43 – 1:27:29) – Vance High’s closing statement
(1:27:29 – 1:29:52) – Sue Lewis’s closing statement
(1:29:52 – 1:32:14) – Juandiego Wade’s closing statement
(1:32:14 -1:34:43) – Leah Puryear’s closing statement and the end

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