Author Archive for Waldo Jaquith

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Every Kitten Must Go

I’m fostering a mama cat and two kittens. They’re this cute. You should adopt them. They’re even two-for-one at the SPCA right now.  #

No More Drought

The drought watch, she is over. 4.25″ of rain in ten days will do that.  #

C’ville on the Silver Screen

David Maurer recounts how Giant was filmed in C’ville in 1955.  #

Hillsdale Connector Coming in a Decade

The Hillsdale Connector won’t be happening until at least 2014, Seth Rosen writes in today’s Daily Progress. The mile-long street, planned to parallel 29 for the benefit of local traffic, will run $30.5M. The slow-motion car crash that is the state’s transportation funding process makes any proposed road purely hypothetical. And how much will VDOT be providing in 2014? A whopping $332,000. Short of a radical rethinking of how we fund transportation in Virginia, it’ll be at least a decade before the Hillsdale Connector is built.

Wouldn’t We All Like To?

From the DP: “Authorities dug up the hot dog near the Cedar Hill Mobile Home Park, where they discovered he had lost…his bottles of ketchup and mustard, with which he was slathering himself so he could appear more delicious.”  #