Yearly Archive for 2002

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Money in Politics

Published by Waldo Jaquith on May 2, 2002 in General News. 30 Comments

Belle writes: In a story for today’s Progress, Jake Mooney tallies campaign donations to current City Council candidates, as well as those who didn’t succeed in gaining their party’s nomination. The report leaves it to readers to analyze the significance, if any, of the donors, the recipients, and the sums, as well as the general role of money in City politics. Would perhaps some cvillenews.com readers like to contribute their analyses here?

Full disclosure: Waldo Jaquith was one of those candidates for City Council, raising $4,705. But it was actually a bunch less if you discount the services that we over-valued and didn’t actually have anything to do with the campaign but listed out of paranoia.

3 Finalists for School Board Superintentent

Published by Waldo Jaquith on May 1, 2002 in Education. 13 Comments

The Charlottesville School Board has rounded its candidates list down to three people for the new superintendent, who will replace the retiring Bill Symons. They are: Jean Murray, Albemarle’s assistant superintendent for instruction; James Bughsley, deputy superintendent for Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Schools in North Carolina; and Kriner Cash, superintendent for Martha’s Vineyards Public Schools. Due to the great amount of pressure on the school board to appoint an African-American superintendent, it’s worth pointing out that the two male candidates, Bughsley and Cash, are both black. The board will pick from these three by Monday. Kate Andrews has the story in today’s Progress.

Rt. 29 Bypass vs. 3 Interchanges

Published by Waldo Jaquith on May 1, 2002 in Ask cvillenews.com. 8 Comments

writes: Recent media reports have indicated an impasse between VDOT and the local Metropolitan Planning Organization over the building of the Route 29 Western bypass versus construction of interchanges at Rio, Greenbrier, and Hydraulic. Given that the estimated cost of the bypass is $30 million dollars per mile, is there any information available about how much the three interchanges would cost to compare with the cost of the road? Or their proposed size and scale? How will this proposed new mall at the Sperry Marine property impact MPO and VDOT discussions on the interchanges, given the traffic [it] will contribute to 29?

Grad. Students Unionize

Published by Waldo Jaquith on April 30, 2002 in UVa. 5 Comments

Fifty UVa graduate students have formed a union, and will align with the national Communication Workers of America. UVa has 3,300 graduate students, many of whom work as graduate instructors and teaching assistants. Says a student union member, graduate students “teach the classes, grade the exams, grade the papers [and] advise the students.” Eric Swensen has the story in today’s Progress.

Darrell Rice not Spotsylvania Co. child killer

Published by Waldo Jaquith on April 30, 2002 in Law and Justice. 3 Comments

Belle writes: DNA sampling taken from Darrell David Rice [shown here in a photo from The Hook], the man charged in the 1996 slayings of two women in Shenandoah National Park, does not match evidence in the unsolved slayings of three Spotsylvania County girls. Kiran Krishnamurthy has the story in today’s Times-Dispatch.

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