Yearly Archive for 2006

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Hawes Spencer Subpoenaed

Published by Waldo Jaquith on August 11, 2006 in Law and Justice and Meta News. 5 Comments

Hook editor Hawes Spencer has been subpoenaed in the metasizing “school bomber” case. (Those are condescension quotes around “school bomber.”) Albemarle County’s famously incompetent Commonwealth Attorney Jim Camblos told local reporters in March that the verdict in the case was a secret, under court orders, and threatened to prosecute any paper that printed leaked information. Only it turned out that Camblos totally made it up — there was no such court order. The Hook and The Daily Progress, to their great credit, have been pursuing the matter through legal channels ever since, trying to figure out what Camblos is trying to hide. Now comes the subpoena of Spencer, and apparently a couple of other news outlets.

Is Camblos making good on his threat against the papers? Nobody knows — the case file is closed.

CBS 19: Full RSS Feeds

Published by Waldo Jaquith on August 11, 2006 in Meta News. 4 Comments

CBS 19 has become the first local media outlet with RSS feeds for their news. Years after news feeds became standard for any media outlet in the western world, C’ville is finally being dragged into the 90s by the upstart TV stations. There are individual feeds for news, weather, and sports. That’s in addition to the video podcast that the station started a couple of weeks ago, another first. Here’s hoping other media outlets will follow their tech leader.

A Review of Mayors Past

Published by Waldo Jaquith on August 11, 2006 in Politics. Closed

In this week’s Hook, Lisa Provence has a great look at past C’ville mayors, from Dutch Vogy (’68-’70) clear up through today’s David Brown. She interviews every one of them about the highs and lows of their time as mayor in with Hotseat-style questionnaire. Interestingly, every living former mayor still lives in Charlottesville.

Conflict of Interest and the State Climatologist

Published by Waldo Jaquith on August 10, 2006 in Politics, UVa and Weather. 14 Comments

City Councilor Kevin Lynch has been investigating UVa Professor and State Climatologist Patrick Michaels. Having already demonstrated that Michaels is likely being less than truthful in claiming to be State Climatologist, he’s turned his attention to the ethical considerations that accompany Michaels’ solicitation of contributions from power companies. Kevin’s article follows, the second in a two-part series.

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Does Virginia really have a State Climatologist?

Published by Waldo Jaquith on August 10, 2006 in Politics, UVa and Weather. 16 Comments

Charlottesville City Councilor Kevin Lynch has been quite taken with the story of UVa Professor and State Climatologist Patrick Michaels taking money from utilities. He raised some interesting questions in his comments on the story, and ended up spending a great bit of time investigating the history of Michaels ostensible position as State Climatologist. Funny thing — it sure looks like he is not, in fact, State Climatologist. What follows is Kevin’s article on the topic, the first in a two-part series.

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