Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Four Part hour interview with AG Ken Cuccinelli March, 2012
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PUBLIC HEARING ON
ROANOKE CITY COUNCIL
PAY RAISES
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May 20, 2013, at 7:00 p.m.
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in Council Chambers, 4th Floor
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Noel C. Taylor Municipal Building
215 Church Avenue, S.W.
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and at its regular meeting on
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June 3, 2013, at 2:00 p.m.
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
ROANOKE/CHRISTIANSBURG – Did you know that kittens can go into heat and get pregnant as early as 4 months old and puppies around 5 months old? If not sterilized, puppies and kittens can get pregnant and have a litter of their own just two months later. And it’s these accidental litters that end up in [...]
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
There is a long list of Little Brothers and Little Sisters waiting for a mentor and friend said the CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, Charles Pierson. Many of the youngsters suffer from neglect or traumatic circumstances in the home. Through BBBS, “I don’t know of a better way to help kids face [...]
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
March 2012: This is Part One of my hour long interview with Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli prior to his Roanoke town hall on electric rates last Tuesday. It was a close quarters one on one interviw in a small conference room the size of a closet at his Peters Creek Road Roanoke office. The door was closed [...]
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
This is Part Two of my hour-long interview with Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli last week (March 2012) in his Roanoke office. Here he answers questions on Virginia’s portion of the home mortgage settlement award, Voter ID, UVA reimbursement and he gives Senate Democrats a kick for good measure. Of the home mortgage settlement funds $66.5 million will [...]
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
In Part III see the video below shot at the VCOG Annual Meeting in October 2009 when he was running for Attorney General. March, 2012: Cuccinelli first saw the printed copy of the Center for Public Integrity report that gave Virginia an “F” during an interview with the Roanoke Free Press last Tuesday. He dismissed the [...]
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Four Part hour interview with AG Ken Cuccinelli March, 2012 Caps on donations: As far as the Center for Public Integrity’s complaint that Virginia had no caps on campaign contributions Cuccinelli doesn’t agree but if there was it should be very high he said. “I’d have a real problem picking some line to reign in [...]
Monday, May 20, 2013
Just a handful of people signed up for the public hearing on city council’s proposed 28.5% pay raise Monday evening. One of those was former council member Rupert Cutler who supported council giving themselves a pay raise. Cutler said he was speaking from experience and that there was “more to serving [on council] than meets [...]
Monday, May 20, 2013
The Republican ticket of Ken Cuccinelli for governor, E. W. Jackson for lieutenant governor and Sen. Mark Obenshain for attorney general started barnstorming the state the day after Saturday’s convention. They touched down Monday morning in Roanoke at Landmark Aviation. It’s all about keeping the momentum going from Saturday’s exhaustive energetic convention and coalescing around [...]
Sunday, May 19, 2013
A twelve-hour day started late as participants squeezed through two coliseum entrance checkpoints instead of the expected twelve. Over 8500 convention goers and credentialed delegates filled the Richmond coliseum at Saturday’s Virginia Republican convention. The guest speaker was Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli had no contest and was easily declared the [...]
Friday, May 17, 2013
In an email from Ed Elswick, Roanoke County Board of Supervisor Windsor District wrote, “politics may have been involved but against me because of the Roanoke Chamber [of Commerce]“ He said that the Chamber was against it because they were supporting his opponent. “The comment from [Supervisor Mike] Altizer that it would prevent the sheriff [...]
Friday, May 17, 2013
Dignitaries and volunteers were among the 75 or so guests at the ribbon cutting Thursday for the 7000 square foot Harrison Museum of African American Culture now relocated to the Center in the Square. The Square will have its grand opening on Saturday May 18. With scissors in hand Mayor David Bowers said “We have [...]
Thursday, May 16, 2013
On Thursday, City of Roanoke held a press conference in Jackson Park to launch Parks and Arts, a new program developed to complement its Neighborhood Arts Initiative which fosters community interaction with innovative arts programming. The Parks and Arts Program emphasizes the city’s Arts and Cultural Plan goal to bring performing and visual arts directly to neighborhoods. The program is [...]
