Bob Gibson of the Charlottesville Daily Progress joins Coy Barefoot on the October 23rd edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss the perils of people seeking out news that agrees only with their pre-existing worldviews. They also discuss a trend towards entrenched partisanship in Richmond, as well as the upcoming election.

In today’s Progress, Gibson writes about the latest poll results in which George Allen has a four-point lead over challenger Jim Webb, with a four-point margin of error.

On October 31st, Gibson will serve as moderator for a radio debate between candidates in the Fifth Congressional District race, to be held on WVTF Public Radio. We’ll also have the debate posted here later that evening.
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Bill Des Rochers is a columnist with the Fluvanna Review who regularly joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to talk about what’s happening in his neck of the woods. The current talk of Fluvanna is clustered development – a new plan to preserve the rural character of the nation by only allowing developers to build on 25 percent of their land. However, Des Rochers says that they can build as densely as they want.

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In the first ot two podcasts from the October 23rd edition of WINA’s “Best Seat in the House” Jed talks with Cavalier fans about what to gain from Virginia’s win over North Carolina last Thursday. Jed and listeners share their thoughts and impressions of a team that may be on the rise.

Police shot fugitive Elvis Gene Shifflet during a manhunt in the afternoon of October 20. WINA’s Rob Graham was on the scene near Piedmont Virginia Community college, and reports in this edition of Charlottesville–Right Now. About nine minutes in, you can hear shots being fired. There’s a good discussion of this going on at cvillenews.com.

Kent Willis of the Virginia ACLU joins Coy Barefoot on the October 20th edition of WINA’s Charlottesville-Right Now to talk about a recent report from the group Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty report called Equal Justice and Fair Play. The report is the third major study of how the death penalty is administered in Virginia, and has been endorsed by the ACLU.

“What this report does is give a blueprint for legislators on how to fix it,” says Willis. The report compares Virginia’s system with that of Illinois, where a moratorium was placed on the death penalty in 2000 following the exoneration of 13 inmates on death row. In 2002, a commission issued 85 recommendation to fix Illinois’ system. The new VADP report says Virginia only satisfies 12 of these fixes.

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Dana Fisher is an assistant professor of sociology at Columbia University. She’s the author of Activism, Inc: How the Outsourcing of Grassroots Campaigns is Strangling Progressive Politics in America. In the book, Fisher examines the role of the professional political canvasser. She’s a guest on the October 11th edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now, and talks about how the institutionalization of activism is defeating the point of democracy.

“What you have is a bunch of young people working for one office who wear a different t-shirt on a different day, and say a different script on a different day to raise money for a different cause,” says Fisher. Read more on Fisher’s work in a recent American Prospect article. The organization Fisher profiles in the book has set up a website to counter her argument.