Brian Wheeler is resigning from the Albemarle School Board, WINA reports. He says he both wants to spend more time with family and wants to spend more time on Charlottesville Tomorrow, the non-profit that he runs. Wheeler holds the only at-large seat on the board, which will be filled by the remainder of the board appointing somebody to complete his term. Wheeler was first elected in 2003 by a 0.65% margin and reelected by a healthier 12.5% margin in 2007. His term seat is up for reelection in November of next year.
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This morning, shortly after 11:00, my friend and boss Kevin Morrissey took his own life at the coal tower. He left his apartment, walked down Water Street and called the police to report a shooting at the coal tower, a shooting that actually came shortly thereafter. A lifetime of grappling with depression combined with recent stresses proved too much for him. He was the managing editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review at the University of Virginia since 2003. Kevin was dogged at his work, meticulous in his detail, and one of the finest human beings I’ve had the privilege to know. Survived by his father, sister, and brothers, he was was 52 years old.
Charlottesville’s Leslie Macko, who stood at President Obama’s side as an example of people who need unemployment benefits, actually lost her job because of after a conviction for prescription drug fraud. Jessica Jaglois at CBS-19 dug up this gem, which certainly has the potential to become national news. Macko said that she’d been laid off from ACAC, and needed unemployment benefits extended since there were no other jobs to be had. In fact, ACAC fired her after she was convicted. Which leaves me wondering how she’s getting unemployment. Don’t you have to be laid off to be eligible?
07/29 Update: ACAC has added an update to the story to clarify something that definitely wasn’t clear the first time around, which is that her firing had nothing to do with her drug conviction. She was convicted of prescription drug fraud (and, in another incident, grand larceny), and she was fired, but that the two aren’t related.
The Coca-Cola bottling plant on Preston is closing down. Like the USPS, they’re relocating services to Sandston. #
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