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County Executive presents budget recommendations

Charlottesville TomorrowOn Friday March 2, 2007, Albemarle County Executive Bob Tucker unveiled his recommended County budget for fiscal year 2008. The total operating and capital budget is over $315 million dollars. The proposed operating budget alone is $266.1 million, representing a 6.7% increase over the prior fiscal year. The budget is based on maintaining the 2006 property tax rate of $0.74 cents per $100 of assessed value. Local taxpayers saw annual property assessments increase on average 14.9% last year (almost 30% over two years). Assessments are projected to increase 11.5% next year and 5.2% on average in each of the four years after that. [Read more on Charlottesville Tomorrow’s blog]



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Places29 master plan framework goes public

Charlottesville Tomorrow

On February 27, 2007, the Albemarle County Planning Commission held a work session to receive an update on the Places29 master planning project. When complete, the Places29 master plan will provide a twenty-year vision for the Route 29 North corridor detailing the development, transportation, and public facilities desired by the community. The commissioners received the recently completed draft plan which has been under development since the first public workshops were held in May 2005. The Places29 Master Plan is scheduled to be adopted by the Board of Supervisors in late 2007. [Read more on Charlottesville Tomorrow’s blog]



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ACC Nation for March 2, 2007

The ACC Nation podcast for the weekend of March 2 is available. Please click here and then visit the ACC Nation podcast page.

On the show this week, Dick Vitale joins Patrick and Chris to talk ACC hoops. Dickie V touches on everything from the ACC Tournament being held in Tampa to his conference player of the year to how many ACC teams will end up in the NCAA Tournament.

Also, on the Sound and the Fury, the guys debate if Tampa is a good site for the ACC Tournament, and they discuss if the tournament should be reduced from all 12 schools to eight. The guys go Inside the Nation and Around the ACC, plus more.

That’s all on ACC Nation

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Congressman Bobby Scott (D-3) gives his perspective on the federal budget


Photo: George Loper		 Congressman Bobby Scott of Virginia’s third district recently spoke at the University of Virginia, having been invited by the U.Va Democrats. He spoke about the federal budget, and described how he thinks the Republican party cannot be trusted to manage the economy.

To see the charts, take a look at our presentation that incorporates Congressman Scott’s PowerPoint with this audio. Let us know what you think, and if you’d like to see more of these kinds of presentations. We’re working to make them available as downloads.



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Charlottesville–Right Now: Steve Safran of Lost Remote gives an update on new media

Steve Safran is the Senior Vice President for Media 2.0 at new media consulting firm AR&D and the Managing Editor of Lost Remote. He joined Coy for a discussion on the latest from the world of new media. He says newspapers and radio seem to get it, but television stations are very comfortable in their existing business model. Safran also says television news did a terrible job of putting this week’s market sell-off into perspective. Subscribe with Bloglines
Steve Safran of Lost Remote