Monthly Archive for December, 2007

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“If It Bleeds, It Leads”

Michael Strickland has been interning at NBC 29, and wrote yesterday about falling into the trap of “if it bleeds, it leads.”  #

Mayor Norris

Dave Norris will replace David Brown as Charlottesville’s mayor.  #

Charges Dropped Against Gerry Mitchell

The city is dropping their citation of Gerry Mitchell for jaywalking, WINA reports. Commonwealth’s attorney Dave Chapman found a technicality on which he could drop the charges: ยง46.2-925 specifies “pedestrian control signals exhibiting the words ‘Walk’ or ‘Don’t Walk’,” and thus Mitchell’s crossing was legal, since the intersection only exhibits walk and don’t walk icons. The ill-advised ticketing came after Mitchell was hurled from his wheelchair when a police car collided with him.

You Could Sue Forever

That 19k ft2 house planned in Ivy? The guy who put the easement on the land in the first isn’t letting it happen without a fight.  #

You Could Vacuum Forever

A couple have been cleared by the county to build a 19,000 (!) square foot house in Ivy, despite it being in easement. I give it two years until they sell it, complaining that it’s just too big. Morons.  #