Left-leaning blogger, George Allen nemesis and UVA law student Mike Stark makes it into The New York Times today for his online activities connected to Barack Obama. Seizing on the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate’s major success with online networking, Stark suggested that a group form on the candidate’s online portal to lobby him to vote against giving legal immunity to telecommunications companies
Three thousand were in attendance. Six of those were escorted from the premises. Seventy-two left of their own free will as newly minted United States citizens. Despite the promise of angry protests against the presence of President George W. Bush who had choppered in from D.C. to tour the house and address the new Americans, the 46th annual Independence Day Celebration and Naturalization Ceremony at Monticello went off smoothly.
While most people interviewed today by the Washington Post’s Tim Craig about next week’s special Assembly session to solve Virginia’s out-of-control transportation problem predict there will be a whole lotta nothing go on, at least one lobbyist is trying to find the upside.
About 280 tech entrepreneurs, along with a handful of politicians and higher ed administrators, donned ‘black tie’ or at least ‘black’ last night at Farmington Country Club for the 2008 Charlottesville Innovation Awards, presented by the tech-loving Charlottesville Business Innovation Council (CBIC).
Score another one for the Grish! According to the Hollywood Reporter, Phoenix Pictures has picked up movie rights to Albemarle best-selling novelist John Grisham’s Playing for Pizza.
Democrat Tom Perriello, who actually seems to have a chance of unseating Fifth District Congressman Virgil (“No habla espanol”) Goode, will become the official Democratic nominee at the fifth district nominating convention
Tight and toned are the buzzwords of the modern workout, as more people move away from the Schwarzenegger look towards longer, leaner muscles. Pilates and yoga can surely lead there, and now add to that a 6” inflatable ball for ultimate fitness. Welcome to Yamuna Body Rolling, a portable exercise program that tones, strengthens and […]
Albemarle Police have arrested two teens in connection with a Saturday afternoon armed robbery on Pantops. The boys are being held at Blue Ridge Detention Center.
Albemarle School officials “vigorously” deny that teenage girls who wore “Virginity Rocks” t-shirts to school were ordered to change their shirts or turn them inside-out. Yesterday, Rutherford Institute attorneys sent a letter to Albemarle superintendent Pam Moran alleging that the girls were instructed to change or reverse their shirts and warning that the schools could face legal action. This morning, Rutherford says that while the school principal may have approved the t-shirts, “the message still has not trickled down to other school employees.”
“My sugar is raw,” she pants. I have no doubt, but on this, her final record for Warner Bros., Madonna’s goodies are as highly processed as Laffy Taffy. Let’s be clear—and this is happy news for Madonna music fans—Hard Candy, her 11th studio album, is a good dance record, possibly even a great dance record. […]