Charlottesville schools are considering instituting a color-coded nutrition system in the cafeterias, using red, yellow, and green to indicate the relative healthfulness of different foods. #
Charlottesville schools are considering instituting a color-coded nutrition system in the cafeterias, using red, yellow, and green to indicate the relative healthfulness of different foods. #
City Democrats chose Satyendra Huja, Holly Edwards and Mayor David Brown as their nominees for Council, Bob Gibson writes in today’s Progress. The really surprising thing was how the numbers came in: Huja received 304 votes, Edwards 279, and Brown 261. Linda Seaman and Jennifer McKeever came in with 188 and 149, respectively.
Huja as top voter getter is particularly surprising because he has absolutely no history with the local Democratic Party which, I think, speaks very well of those who showed up to vote. Traditionally, the party wouldn’t give the time of day to a candidate who hadn’t “paid their dues.” I have to speculate that he was the first choice of few, but second or third choice for an enormous number of people, which paid off handsomely. This remarkably diverse ticket will make a formidable team for the general election, although it looks like local Republicans can’t even muster a single candidate to go up against them. If they’re not going to field candidates, maybe it’s time to give a thirty party a default place on the ticket (the Green Party?) and make Republicans gather signatures on a petition in order to secure a place on the ballot. Peter Kleeman, who is basically a Green, has secured enough signatures to appear on the ballot, so this may well just be a four-person race.
Five people have applied for an interim appointment to the school board, Matt Deegan reports in the Progress, a number one greater than the people who have filed to run for the four open seats. One of those applicant is Grant Brownrigg, who is simultaneously seeking election to the school board. That maneuver is not prohibited, but the five and a half month head start would seem to give an unfair advantage to an applicant who is also a candidate. Of the other four candidates, two (Susan Lewis and Charles Kollmansperger) have said they’re not interesting in running, and the other two (former board members Byron Brown and Muriel Wiggins) couldn’t be reached by the paper.
The Washington Post profiles Marc Turner, who commutes every day to D.C. from Charlottesville. Why? He likes living in Charlottesville, but wants the pay that comes from working in D.C. The Census Bureau classifies Turner and those like him as “extreme commuters,” and they’ve doubled in number between the last two censuses. #
Llezelle Dugger and Sean McCord intend to announce their campaigns for the Charlottesville School Board, the Daily Progress reports today. Sean made his interest known in mid-May, but this is the first time that Llezelle’s name has come up. (I’m friends with both Sean and Llezelle, and should be considered utterly biased in their favor.) Llezelle is an assistant public defender for the city and a mother of two young kids. If both declare, that would finally mean that there are enough candidates to fill the four seats that are open. It would be better still to have some competition in the race, though. The filing deadline is June 12. (Via Democratic Central)
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