Charlottesville resident Grant Brownrigg has declared his candidacy for the school board, Matt Deegan reports for the Progress. Brownrigg is the creator of the Grantland business comic, has served on the school board’s discipline task force, and has three kids in city schools. He and Alvin Edwards are the two candidates to declare thus far, leaving the board two candidates short of the four required to fill the open seats. The filing deadline is June 12.
Albemarle Democrats held their nomination caucus last night, Liesel Nowak reports in the Progress, and nominated Larry Claytor for sheriff, Lindsay Dorrier for reelection to the BoS, and Debbie Shipp for Clerk of Court. Claytor and Dorrier both enjoyed landslide victories among the 400 caucus members. Now the three — and the other uncontested nominees — will go on to attempt to win the general election. This promises to be the most colorful Albemarle election in years, with an impressive and impassioned lineup of candidates and enough of a smattering of independent candidates to make things unpredictable.
Charlottesville Tomorrow provides video and audio highlights from the caucus.
The five Democrats vying for the three available seats on City Council held their first forum a couple of nights ago, and Charlottesville Tomorrow provides audio and video from the debates. The format was pretty interesting: speed-dating style small group discussions followed by the usual answering questions from the audience.
Here’s excerpts of the candidates’ comments on the topic of growth in the small group discussions (45 minutes):
And here’s the audio of the panel discussion: (50 minutes):
Three more debates are planned. Here’s hoping that the format and atmosphere of each of these remains as interesting and collegial as this first one — it’s a lot better than the format that’s been used by local Democrats for some years now.
Courtesy of ScamperDude, this foster kitten is cute beyond all reason. I’m not sure what Tip is asking for with those eyes, but the answer has to be “yes.” #
One of the side effects of no longer requiring registration to post comments on cvillenews.com is that now I have to battle spammers. (There were 1,026 attempts to post spam comments in the last week alone.) This means that legitimate comments are sometimes being wrongly identified as spam, which sucks. I’ve just reduced the strength of the anti-spam system, meaning fewer good messages will be blocked, but more spam will get through, which I’ll delete when I spot it. Bear with me. #
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