Attention fellow geeks: The beCamp un-conference is being held at Fry’s Spring this weekend. It’s a free, self-organizing, two-day technology event. #
Attention fellow geeks: The beCamp un-conference is being held at Fry’s Spring this weekend. It’s a free, self-organizing, two-day technology event. #
Dr. Barbara Haskins has filed to run for City Council as an independent. Charlottesville Tomorrow reports that the 26-year city resident is running because she was “outraged” with the last budget process, while Democratic Central reports that she’s a Democrat. Satyendra Huja, Holly Edwards and Mayor David Brown are the Democratic nominees for the three seats, and Democrat Peter Kleeman is also running as an independent.
Both Brian Wheeler and Lloyd Snook reported this on their respective blogs three days ago, but I’ve been on vacation, so I’m a little behind the times.
In today’s Daily Progress, Brian McNeill looks at traffic data and finds that high housing costs are putting enormous pressure on a few roads that lead to the surrounding counties. VDOT’s numbers on travel time (516k PDF), comparing 2005 to 2001, show that traffic from the west on 250 increased by 25%, traffic from the north on 29 increased by 33%, and traffic on 53 doubled from 3,300 to 6,600 trips per day.
Charlottesville schools are considering instituting a color-coded nutrition system in the cafeterias, using red, yellow, and green to indicate the relative healthfulness of different foods. #
City Democrats chose Satyendra Huja, Holly Edwards and Mayor David Brown as their nominees for Council, Bob Gibson writes in today’s Progress. The really surprising thing was how the numbers came in: Huja received 304 votes, Edwards 279, and Brown 261. Linda Seaman and Jennifer McKeever came in with 188 and 149, respectively.
Huja as top voter getter is particularly surprising because he has absolutely no history with the local Democratic Party which, I think, speaks very well of those who showed up to vote. Traditionally, the party wouldn’t give the time of day to a candidate who hadn’t “paid their dues.” I have to speculate that he was the first choice of few, but second or third choice for an enormous number of people, which paid off handsomely. This remarkably diverse ticket will make a formidable team for the general election, although it looks like local Republicans can’t even muster a single candidate to go up against them. If they’re not going to field candidates, maybe it’s time to give a thirty party a default place on the ticket (the Green Party?) and make Republicans gather signatures on a petition in order to secure a place on the ballot. Peter Kleeman, who is basically a Green, has secured enough signatures to appear on the ballot, so this may well just be a four-person race.
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