Unlike the first debate, in which the candidates seemed more or less evenly matched, I’d say Obama pretty solidly topped McCain this time around. Obama’s answers just seemed clearer and more down to earth. McCain came off as, well, dated.
The Charlottesville Housing and Redevelopment Authority (CHRA) has hit yet another hurdle. Its executive director, Noah Schwartz, has resigned, reports The Daily Progress.
The Boyd Tinsley Fund at the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation has awarded $75,000 to city schools to support music, tennis and academic tutoring, according to a city schools press release.
I have returned from the great annual comics fest in Bethesda, Maryland known as SPX, where a bevy of altweekly political cartoonists were on hand for this year’s election-themed programming.
And she has a rather unexpected local connection. Read on for more.
Who knows why 50,747 people came to Scott Stadium to see Maryland play Virginia. Maybe they came to tailgate on an achingly gorgeous fall night. Maybe they came to see if the lifted sign ban would bring out provocative posterboard. Maybe they came to see an embattled bunch of Cavaliers for the same reason that people rubberneck at gruesome highway crashes.
So, when you are geeky about composting like we are, you wind up getting excited over some pretty weird things. A week ago, we were in a certain local restaurant and spotted a big bucket of compostables. “Hey, can we have that?” I asked. And they literally started giggling with delight.
Former Virginia governor Mark Warner has received endorsements by 600 local elected officials and nearly half of them are Republicans and Independents.
I am troubled by the suggestion that because Palin did not have a truly spectacular brain-fart moment, that means she somehow “held her own.” She did not hold a candle to Biden.
What’s your all-time favorite underattended local concert?