Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Stephen Turner will announce his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Roanoke County Sheriff Friday, July 30 at 10 a.m at the Roanoke County Courthouse. The special election will be held in November.Wednesday, July 28, 2010
PRESS RELEASE: Wednesday, July 28 - Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli announced his intentions to donate $55,500 to veterans’ charities around the Commonwealth. The funds were originally donated to the Ken Cuccinelli for Attorney General Campaign in the summer and fall of 2009 by Bobby Thompson.
In recent months, Thompson and a charity he directs, the United States [...]
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
RICHMOND (July 28, 2010) – Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli issued the following statement regarding today’s ruling by Judge Susan Bolton in the case of United States of America v. State of Arizona, et al.:
“My office is currently reviewing Judge Bolton’s 36-page order regarding the United States’ Motion for a Preliminary Injunction against Arizona’s immigration [...]
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Stephen Turner will announce his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Roanoke County Sheriff Friday, July 30 at 10 a.m at the Roanoke County Courthouse. The special election will be held in November.
Turner, 57 is a lieutenant with the Roanoke County Police Department and a graduate of Virginia Western Community College and Radford University.
He graduated from [...]
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Many of the area neighbors including myself have attended all the meetings with Planning Department Staff over the last several weeks. Tuesday night at 6:30 p.m. at William Fleming is the last community input meeting. What to do with Countryside Golf Course is the topic.
Monday evening’s meeting at the Miller Court neighborhood (Dan Hale President) [...]
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
UPDATED July 21, 2010: (See Trinkle responds below just prior to The Roanoke Star-Sentinel print deadline)
Roanoke City’s Code of Ordinances says the meals tax citizens pay when dinning out is to be “held in trust by the seller until remitted to the treasurer.” It means exactly that according to Tim Spencer in the city attorney’s [...]
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
At the first Roanoke City Council meeting on July 6 new council member Bill Bestpitch came onboard ready to take on the transparency challenge. To the surprise of his colleagues Bestpitch asked for the removal of a closed session on the consent agenda.
He then explained to his puzzled colleagues that he wanted to add transparency [...]
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
There is a dark cloud of debt hanging over Roanoke City. In a communication from Roanoke City’s financial adviser Public Financial Management, Inc. warned that another year exceeding Roanoke’s self-imposed debt limit is risky.
For fiscal year 2010 the 10% debt ceiling has been breached coming in at 10.2%. Another year over 10% risks another bond [...]
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Cuccinelli in a press release says he will protect Virginia’s right to enforce federal immigration laws.
RICHMOND (July 14, 2010) – Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli announced today that he has joined a coalition of nine states filing an amicus brief in federal court supporting Arizona’s new immigration reform law. Arizona’s law is the subject of a [...]
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Formal action on the formation of the Community Development Authority (CDA) for South Peak is perking up with the help of Bonnie France of the McGuire Woods law firm in Richmond. France has been advising Roanoke County on bond issues for 25 years.
James Smith, the developer will start first with a 120-unit condominium project followed [...]
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Regulators Issue Statement to Assist Financial Institutions and Customers Affected by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
The federal financial regulatory agencies and the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (the regulators) issued a statement today to assist financial institutions and their customers affected by the Deepwater Horizon Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit explosion and oil spill in [...]
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Roanoke County Law Enforcement received $217,141 to complete the firing range. The funds came from the police asset forfeiture account at no cost to tax payers. Jeff Altice in the Community Development Department came up with a “bullet trap system” designed to neutralize firing range bullets so they can be taken to a landfill easily. [...]
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
It is back to the drawing board for the county’s web site redesign. Without hesitation the Board of Supervisors went thumbs down on the new logo and web design presented by Teresa Hall, Director of Public Information and Bill Greeves, Director of Communications and Information Technology.
A lengthy discussion on the county seal led board member [...]
Monday, July 12, 2010
ROANOKE COUNTY DISCLOSES – WHY CAN’T ROANOKE CITY?
MONDAY UPDATE: Roanoke County’s Tuesday, July 13 agenda properly names subject:
1. Section 2.2-3711(A)(1): Personnel, namely discussion concerning appoint-ment to the Roanoke Valley – Alleghany Regional Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) Committee
2. Section 2.2-3711(A)(5): Discussion concerning the expansion of an existing business or industry where no previous announcement has been [...]
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Members of the Association of Colored Trainmen and Locomotive Firemen, Inc. and the Ladies Auxiliary Association of Colored Trainmen, in front of the Gainsboro Library, Roanoke, VA circa 1937. Photo courtesy of the Harrison Museum of African American Culture, Roanoke, VA.
CLICK HERE: 11th Annual African-American N&W Heritage Celebration
Special Heritage Celebration Program, July 10, 6:30-8:30pm. The [...]
