Some local folks are remaking the legendarily-awful Plan 9 from Outer Space. (Via) #
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It’s been five years since Gray Television launched CBS-19 and ABC-16 here in Charlottesville. (Here’s the original cvillenews.com story.) If asked, I would have guessed it’d been, like, a week and a half. We were all relatively fresh off the C-Ville Weekly / Hook split then, seeing some of the results of competition in our weeklies, and I think hopes were high that the new stations would have a similarly beneficial on the staid NBC-29. Five years later, I’d be curious to hear what folks think about CBS-19, ABC-16, and Fox-27, especially their news coverage, and how they’ve affected NBC-29 and the overall news coverage in town. I can’t get local TV stations—there’s a mountain between me and town—so I’ve never actually seen any of their broadcasts, only online excerpts.
The state prison system is once again allowing Books Behind Bars to operate. The Rutherford Institute got involved, which probably helped. #
The Progress has gone to the new, narrower page size that’s become more common. Remember when the Post got narrower a few years ago? Same deal. #
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