A friend at LexisNexis tells me of layoffs there, announced today. Can any victims (or survivors) give us a sense of the scope of this? #
A friend at LexisNexis tells me of layoffs there, announced today. Can any victims (or survivors) give us a sense of the scope of this? #
In an effort to balance the state’s budget, Del. Rob Bell voted in favor of eliminating the funding for the Charlottesville/Albemarle Drug Court, Tasha Kates writes in the Daily Progress. Drug courts exist to help drug addicts kick the habit, rather than tossing them in prison, which is both ineffective and a lot more expensive. They’re a big money saver, which is why Sheriff Chip Harding (a Republican, like Del. Bell) is an ardent supporter of them. Since the budget amendment passed with 61% of the vote, this isn’t likely to change.
Cutting the funding for drug courts to save money reminds me of when Governor Mark Warner closed down the liquor stores one day a week to save money; since they’re profitable, that didn’t make much sense.
Four families in North Downtown are getting together to build a communal chicken coop. Awesome. Fun fact: It’s perfectly legal to raise chickens in the city limits, no permit required. #
I’m guessing some people just lost some bets: ground has been broken on the Meadowcreek Parkway, Rachana Dixit writes in the Progress. But it’s being done in an awfully strange way. The road is actually three roads, connecting in series, or so it is on paper. Albemarle County is building the 1.4 miles of the two mile road that runs through their municipality. That runs from Rio Road to a spot in the middle of McIntire Park. The next half mile is to be built by Charlottesville, though they don’t yet have the necessary permits to do that, and it’s not a sure thing that they’ll come through. And the last bit is the interchange—where it’ll connect to the bypass and to McIntire Road—which is VDOT’s project. It’s possible that we’ll end up with a 1.4 mile, $11.8M road to nowhere. The two-lane thruway is scheduled for completion in October 2011.
Lisa Provence has a series of interviews with survivors of the Great Depression in this week’s Hook, and it actually makes for pretty good reading. Many have advice for how to get by, should this recession become something worse, and a lot of it seems to boil down to the ability to do for yourself. Things seem rough now, but reading the stories of what the 1930s were like, it’s clear that we’ve got it pretty good.
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