I’m glad to see that City Council candidate Peter Kleeman has started a campaign blog. No slouch, he’s written several thoughtful, in-depth posts in the week since he’s started it, writing about the planned McIntire interchange and the city’s plan to sell a 22 acre construction easement in McIntire to VDOT for a buck. If he keeps this up, Kleeman may well provide voters more insight into his beliefs and plans than any council candidate in my memory.
News and meta-news about Charlottesville, VA, since 2001.
Monthly Archive for July, 2007
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Police are trying to figure out what the deal is with random attacks on people in the greater downtown area, the Progress reports. One attack was on Friday night, when a guy was sucker punched by one kid in a group of a dozen, as he wrote about on cvillenews.com. Another was on JPA a few hours later, when a guy had a rock hurled through his car window while he was driving. And a couple of hours after that, a woman was knocked to the ground by a group of kids on the street outside of the Elks Lodge on 2nd St.
In every case so far, the attacks have come from groups of teenaged African American kids wearing white t-shirts, as is the fashion. This is where community policing efforts are particularly important — a pointed conversation between a friendly police officer and their mothers may be all it takes to nip this in the bud.
There were July 4th celebrations throughout the area today. I went to Monticello’s 45th annual Independence Day Celebration and Naturalization Ceremony. So did Rick Sincere, who provides video highlights of the event, including a good chunk of Sam Waterston’s address. And Sylvia’s family took part in the Earlysville parade, and provides photos of some of the other participants.
Further to our recent discussion about “We Buy Houses” scams, the New York Times explains these scams, describing how “financial predators are finding yet another way to take advantage of people” with the housing market tanking. #
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