Bob Gibson on local TV reporting: “a few young television reporters…can create a false perception of a dangerous downtown crime wave by over-hyping a handful of robberies and gang-style beatings that occurred mostly a few blocks on the south side of downtown.” #
A Silver Spring, MD resident was recently barred from taking photos downtown, the WP reports. Why? It’s been taken over by private developers, and it’s no longer a public space, thus no First Amendment rights. This is precisely what I have in mind when I warn people about developments like Albemarle Place. They’re trouble. #
Patricia Kluge has shut down Fuel Co. I never went there. I guess a lot of people didn’t — hence shutting down. #
The Albemarle School Board has voted to tighten up their flier rules, Matt Deegan writes in today’s Daily Progress. This is in response to the pair of dust-ups in the schools after Christians objected to the distribution of pagan and then atheist fliers. The school board having decided that this is all just more trouble than it’s worth, they’ve decided that the only groups allowed to send home fliers with students are now school-sponsored and local government groups. As Deegan points out, that excludes groups like vacation Bible schools, SOCA, and Little League, among others, but it’s not clear that there’s any other reasonable path for the school board to take.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
Within two years, Wal-Mart will likely be the biggest private employer in the area, Brian McNeill writes in today’s Daily Progress. Between the location on 29N, the growing distribution center in Zion Crossroads, the planned location in Louisa and the newly-announced location in Greene, they’ll have 1,970 people working for them. The company’s low wages, poor benefits and discriminatory hiring practices make it less than clear that there’s anything particularly good about this news. McNeill’s article ends with a mysterious quote from Darden professor Paul Farris claiming that Wal-Mart’s presence may well be good for local retailers which, as The Hook‘s Hawes Spencer points out, would seem to challenge traditional logic.
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