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Global Warming: What can local governments do?

Global warming has become such a mainstream concern that it’s attracting the attention of several local groups. The League of Women Voters in Charlottesville/Albemarle chose the topic for its February meeting, with a discussion on what local governments can do to respond to the phenomenon.

The two speakers are former Charlottesville Mayor Maurice Cox, and former Albemarle County Supervisor David Bowerman.

Bowerman served on the county planning commission in the nineteen-eighties before joining the Board of Supervisors in 1989. He chaired the Local Sustainability Council from 1994 to 1998. Maurice Cox served on the Charlottesville City Council for eight years, ending his term in 2004 after a two-year stint as Mayor. He came to Charlottesville to teach architecture at the University of Virginia. He focuses on urban design issues in his teaching, and is a frequent speaker across the nation, extolling the virtues of the city’s downtown pedestrian mall.



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Charlottesville–Right Now: Brian Wheeler on Places 29, and the Western By-pass revisited

Brian Wheeler, Executive Director of Charlottesville Tomorrow, joins Coy Barefoot on the February 27th edition of “CharlottesvilleGuv,!vDjkjRight Now!” for the weekly growth and development discussion. This week, he and Coy discuss the Places29 Master Plan, proposed grade-separated interchanges on Route 29, and transportation funding plans recently approved by the Virginia General Assembly.

Callers had questions on the number of residential units proposed for the Places29 area and on plans for improving roads around Pantops. Carter Myers, former member of the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB), called in to explain his past support for the Western Bypass for Route 29 and the reason he voted against pursuing grade-separated interchanges at intersections like Hydraulic Road and Route 29.

Charlottesville Tomorrow is a non-partisan community organization that focuses on land use, transportation and community design issues in Charlottesville and Albemarle. Executive Director Brian Wheeler joins Coy Barefoot each week on WINAGuv,!v,,us CharlottesvilleGuv,!vDjnjRight Now to update listeners on growth and development issues.

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Charlottesville–Right Now: Kelly Porell of Virginia21 evaluates the 2007 General Assembly session

Kelly Porell is the Executive Director of Virginia21, the nation’s first “action-tank” that advocates for young people in state government. Kelly discussed the 2007 General Assembly session and how it shaped up regarding higher education funding and keeping a college education affordable.

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Charlottesville–Right Now: General Assembly Wrap-Up with Shaun Kenney and Jesse Ferguson

Shaun Kenney, Director of Communications for the Republican Party of Virginia, and Jesse Ferguson, spokesman for Delegate Brian Moran (Chairman of the Democratic Caucus), join Coy Barefoot on the February 26th edition of WINA’s CharlottesvilleGuv,!vDjkjRight Now to recap this year’s General Assembly session. Topics include the transportation package, the slavery regret bill, re-regulation of Dominion Virginia Power, the success of eminent domain legislation, and the failure of legislation to raise the minimum wage. Shaun and Jesse also share what we might expect from their party’s candidates in this year’s elections.

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Feb. 26 Headlines: General Assembly concludes, toxic dump charges, Warner endorses McCain

Monday morning and another installment of the Gateway Virginia Headlines. In these two minutes you’ll get a quick update on how the General Assembly ended, and what to watch out for if you’re speeding on state roads. As always, click play to listen, download the mp3, or subscribe in iTunes.

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Charlottesville–Right Now: Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick on the death penalty

Slate Senior Editor Dahlia Lithwick joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss a recent article she wrote on the decline of American support for the death penalty – except on the Supreme Court. She also talks about other legal news, including the Anne Nicole Smith case and the Jose Padilla competency hearings.

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Technology in World History (5 of 12)

Bernard Carlson, Professor of Science, Technology and Society at the University of Virginia, explores the ways that people have used technology to shape history, in “Technology in World History.” In this installment Carlson discusses architect Pierre L’Enfant’s second American city.

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Wake-Up Call: The Annual Oscars Show

This week on WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call with Rick Moore, it’s the annual Oscars show – where guests discuss the nominees for tonight’s Academy Awards. Two of WNRN’s own 91 Seconds On Film movie reviewers, Ben Nuckols andTom Dumontier, join Adam Greenbaum – the owner of an independent theater in Stanton. Who deserves to win an Academy Award? Who will? Find out by listening to the podcast!

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Charlottesville–Right Now: Blogger Allison Hantschel’s new book on Doug Feith and the Office of Special Plans

Allison Hantschel is a blogger and author who posts to the site First Draft. She has a new book called Special Plans: The Blogs & the Faulty Intelligence That Led To War. The book traces the story of Douglas Feith, a key figure in President Bush’s Defense Department in the run-up to the Iraq War. He ran the Office of Special Plans, which was created to collect intelligence on the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.”What Douglas Feith was doing was taking reports from Iraqi defectors who were questionable,” she says. “For example, we were fed a bunch of lines about mobile biological weapons laboratories that were terribly dangerous and could strike us from anywhere. And the main source for that allegation turned out to be an alcoholic cousin to an aid to Ahmed Chalabi.” She adds that Chalabi later turned out to be also shown as less than reliable.

Hantschel is a guest on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now with Coy Barefoot.

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ACC Nation for February 23

The “ACC Nation” podcast for the weekend of Feb. 23 is now available.

Click here – then visit the “ACC Nation” podcast page to listen.

This week, Mechelle Voepel of The Kansas City Star and ESPN.com joins us to talk ACC women’s basketball. Also on the show – Jeff White of The Times-Dispatch in Richmond talks UVa. basketball, and Ken Pomeroy of KenPom.com gives his thoughts on how many ACC teams will get invites to the Big Dance.

And then in The Sound and The Fury, Chris and Patrick break down the top six contenders for the ACC men’s player-of-the-year award – and share who they think are the frontrunners at this stage in the race. All that and more on “ACC Nation.”