Wednesday, March 10, 2010
HB655 on Ethics passed Wednesday afternoon. An amendment failed 18-21 by Chesterfield Republican Senator Stephen Martin who attempted to add to language that withholds complaints 60-days prior to “any nominating event.” The language of the bill in its current form only includes primaries.Wednesday, March 10, 2010
HB655 on Ethics passed Wednesday afternoon. An amendment failed 18-21 by Chesterfield Republican Senator Stephen Martin who attempted to add to language that withholds complaints 60-days prior to “any nominating event.” The language of the bill in its current form only includes primaries.
However, if a complaint is filed 60 or fewer days before a primary or general [...]
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Washington, DC – March 9, 2010 – The League of American Bicyclists is proud to announce Sharebike.org as a silver award level Bicycle Friendly Business (BFB), in an impressive group of 51 new BFBs. The official announcement was made at the 10th Anniversary National Bike Summit in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, March 9. The announcement, [...]
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
On Sunday March 7, 1965 over 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma Alabama on U.S. Route 80 to the Edmund Pettus Bridge. They were met by local law enforcement with billy clubs and tear gas driving them back into Selma.
Ruling in favor of the demonstrators District Court Judge Frank Johnson, Jr. said [...]
Monday, March 8, 2010
With this question being asked ad nauseam including by city manager Chris Morrill on Sunday here is the memo for the 100th time. The underline on the memo was not done by me. The handwriting by Darlene Burcham reads “Beth, please prepare a letter to Jackie Schuck (Director of Roanoke Regional Airport) at airport re [...]
Friday, March 5, 2010
In a phone call with Senator John Edwards Friday he said that, “there are only three other states in the whole country that actually do this.”
This morning the Senate continued HB 778 to 2011. The House passed HB 778 on a 86 to 13 vote. The bill would have require the Clerk of the House [...]
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
RICHMOND (March 3, 2010)
– Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II responded today to Democrat state legislators who attacked his legal challenge of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to regulate carbon dioxide and other “greenhouse gases” as dangerous pollutants.
Cuccinelli cited the EPA’s and the Democrats’ reliance on inaccurate and perhaps even manipulated data from [...]
Monday, January 25, 2010
RICHMOND- Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell today announced that leading Republican and Democratic lawmakers will carry the budget amendments necessary to implement the job-creation proposals he outlined in his Address to the Joint Houses of the General Assembly last Monday. In the Senate the amendments will be carried by ranking Senate Finance Committee member William Wampler [...]
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Wednesday, January 6, 2010
According to the registrar the primary will cost the city $40,000. The filing fee for each candidate was 2% of a council member’s salary that came to $296.32.
Since I am the publisher, owner of this website I will take a hiatus while being a candidate. In the meantime I will be posting city issues on my [...]
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Governor-elect writes Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar
RICHMOND- Virginia Governor-elect Bob McDonnell expressed his continued strong support of offshore energy exploration and development off the coast of Virginia in a letter sent to United States Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar this past Wednesday. In the letter, McDonnell cautioned against any further delay in the [...]
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
With the search executive Colin Baenziger’s words still floating in the frigid air Monday Roanoke learned who the new city manager will be come March 1, 2010. Baenziger who has a sense of humor, as does Roanoke’s new city manager said, “City managers are inherently masochists … they think they can fix anything.”
The new manager [...]
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Monday, December 21, 2009
Christopher Paul Morrill, 47 assistant manager for the city of Savannah, Georgia is Roanoke’s new city manager beginning March 1, 2010. The noon announcement included Morrill’s wife, Kimberly and their two sons, Declan and Daniel who are in kindergarten and 7th grade. It was the first time they had seen snow. Morrill’s starting salary will [...]
Friday, December 18, 2009
There is little chance that Countryside’s indoor tennis building will get the repairs requested by the Blue Ridge Tennis group. The eventual non-profit organization last month presented to council plans to teach tennis to underserved youth in exchange for free use of the building. The group asked that Council find funds to make repairs. They [...]
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
If Colin Baenziger, the recruiter hired to find a new city manager had his way he’d let it be known now who city council picked behind closed doors on Friday. Baenziger lives in Florida where “everything is done in the open.” But in Roanoke the contract with council’s pick is “in process.”
In an email Monday [...]
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Assistant manager for Community Development Brian Townsend preached to the choir at Saturday morning’s Code Enforcement 101 workshop for city residents. The room was filled with just about every neighborhood organization in the city.
Building maintenance, zoning, and nuisance codes provide for a healthy, safe and clean environment for all citizens. “The goal is compliance and [...]
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