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Candidate Endorsements

Published by Waldo Jaquith on April 27, 2006 in Politics. 7 Comments

School Board and City Council elections are on Tuesday. I have to admit that I don’t even know enough about the School Board candidates to even pick from amongst them. For City Council I favor Dave Norris and Julian Taliaferro, of course. Dave, in particular, I’ve known for years and admire greatly. It’s rare that such a fine human being can be persuaded to run for office. But I live in Stony Point, so I don’t even have a vote.

But that’s just to stir y’all up into writing something of your own. Who do you support for City Council and School Board, and why? I get the sense that a lot of people don’t know one School Board candidate from another at this point, so a compelling argument could well yield a good number of votes.

“Right Now” Podcast

Published by Waldo Jaquith on April 26, 2006 in Meta News. 2 Comments

WINA has been running a new local show from 4pm-6pm, “Charlottesville Right Now,” for the past couple of months. Now it’s being podcast by Sean Tubbs’ Charlottesville Podcasting Network, broken into bite-sized pieces by topic. This is WINA’s first podcast. WNRN has been podcasting “91 Seconds on Film” and “Wake-Up Call” for some months now.

C’ville Traffic Lights Getting Synched

Published by Waldo Jaquith on April 26, 2006 in Transportation. 7 Comments

After I asked what the funny antennae on the traffic lights are here on cvillenews.com, Mayor Brown broke the news that traffic would be getting synchronized. In Monday’s Daily Progress, John Yellig explained the plan for lights to get synchronized across the city, and it sounds pretty impressive.

Right now West Main is synched up, but soon Emmet and Preston will likewise be synched up. Three employees will sit in the city’s Intelligent Transportation System Center on Fourth Street, watching traffic on closed-circuit TVs, and adjust the lights in real time during peak traffic hours. Later in the four-phase, $2M project, all 69 traffic signals in the city will be wired into the ITS. Councilor Kevin Lynch wants to see the buses wired into the system, giving them priority at traffic lights.

I, for one, welcome our new traffic overlords.

New C-Ville Weekly Website

Published by Waldo Jaquith on April 26, 2006 in Meta News. 13 Comments

For the first time ever, C-Ville Weekly has redone their website. Their site was an eyeball-taxing white-on-black with URLs that changed, making it tough to link to articles. Now they have a pretty website with permalinks (albeit using URLs of Death) and what looks like more content from each week’s issue. They even plan to maintain their existing archives, rather than starting over now. Mysteriously, there’s no RSS feed, but with the site powered by a content management system, additions like that should be easy. Many improvements, no steps backwards—what’s not to like?

Capshaw Buying Jefferson Theater

Published by Waldo Jaquith on April 26, 2006 in Business and Development. Closed

DMB manager / real estate mogul Coran Capshaw has made a deal to buy the Jefferson Theater from Hook editor Hawes Spencer, John Yellig reports in today’s Progress. Hawes bought the nearly century-old building back in 1992, running it as a two-screen second-run theater, renting out the upper stories as apartments, and renting out the two storefronts as retail. The space has an amazing history, Houdini and the Three Stooges being two of its most famous vaudeville shows. Hawes says that Coran intends to continue doing basically the same thing with it, only probably making money on it.

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