Checking out NRO articles this morning I found an interesting disclaimer at the top of the article Planned Parenthood Matters:
EDITOR’S NOTE: This column is available exclusively through United Media. For permission to reprint or excerpt this copyrighted material, please contact Carmen Puello at cpuello@unitedmedia.com.
The article is an interesting read but I kept coming back to [...]
F.T. Rea argues that if Richmond “Baseball In The Bottom” is such a great idea and deserves public funding that you might as well put it up as a referrendum and allow the public to just fall over themselves to show their overwhelming support to throw money at another hole in the ground. More or [...]
RichmondWiki is neat. I like the idea of creating an encyclopedia of Richmond and others being able to give their takes and bits of info they know as well. I’m not sure how successful it’ll be in the long run of providing a good history of Richmond, but it’s already shaping up to be a [...]
Richmond has a wiki!
How sad is it that I authored my own entry? *Sigh*.
But seriously, check it out for some information on all things Richmond and add feel free to add and edit entries to help flesh it all out. It litterally is what you make of it.
F.T. Rea is on a roll in critiquing the Baseball in The Bottom proposal’s “need” for public funding:
While the VAPAF, the hybrid public/private partnership behind the ongoing renovation of the Carpenter Center (formerly the Loew’s) has run into all sorts of financial trouble and delays, three other things have happened to do with theaters in [...]
“Richmond, Va.’s rental vacancy rate of 23.7 percent is the worst in America…“ (h/t RDR)
F.T. Rea takes the online anonymous support for Baseball In The Bottom to task and it of course brings the same anonymous voices out of the woodwork to criticize him. Naturally the anonymous FanGuy cites anonymous resistance to tyranny as a justification for his stance, but keeping baseball on Boulevard hardly necessitates a Richmond Tea [...]
Inside Facebook has some interesting numbers on Facebook’s overall users and growth as of late. What used to be limited to college kids has grown into someething much more and it’s interesting to see how Facebook has evolved and will continue to evolve over the next year or so as it goes through these growing [...]
Waldo has an interesting find off of VDOT’s website: a 1976 report “The Route of the Three Notch’d Road: A Preliminary Report”. From the Abstract:
Of the many colonial roads constructed during the eighteenth century as settlement moved across Piedmont and Southside Virginia, a few have remained virtually intact and in service as state roads over [...]
Interesting videos of the VCU area from around 1977 as shot by late art professor Glenn Hamm
VCU Part One
VCU Part Two
John Muden has announced his intentions to run for Richmond’s 7th District seat soon to be vacated by Deloris McQuinn when she officially wins the special election for Dwight Jones’s Delegate seat. Style Weekly has a write up as well:
Neighborhood blogger and middle school history teacher John Murden says he will run for the 7th [...]
Venturing southside with the ladyfriend for some shoes and other errands, we decided Wendy’s would be awesome for my dinner and her Frosty craving. At the drive thru we were told they were close. Seems we missed a bit of action by about five minutes.
So I helped liveblog tonight’s Mayoral Forum with RVANews and it was a good time. Except that I had the screwup of the evening.
In answer to a question on health care, Dwight Jones asserted that he was the only candidate that mentioned the issue on his website. Being on a computer I figured I’d check [...]
It may sound like a bad coming of age novel (it is) but it’s really about Richmond’s upcoming mayor’s election on week from Tuesday, RVANews’s coverage of forums leading up to debate, and how yours truly will be helping with said coverage Tuesday night, October 28th. Yes, I’m gonna be a livebloggin’ fiend.
Check out RVANews’s [...]
Bill Clinton’s coming to VCU for the Obama campaign this Sunday:
This Sunday, October 12th, please join President Bill Clinton for a rally in Richmond, where he will talk about Barack’s vision for creating the kind of change we need.
Change We Need Rally
with President Bill Clinton
Virginia Commonwealth University
University Student Commons
Commons Plaza
907 Floyd Ave.
Richmond, VA
Sunday, October 12th
Gates [...]