Thoughts on Recent Town Hall Meetings

My Congressman, Tom Perriello, held more town hall meetings During August than anyone in the country at last check. Meetings throughout the District were attended by hundreds, maybe in excess of thousands of citizens seeking information and to ask their representative questions face-to-face.
I attended two meetings; one in Prince Edward County, and one in Cumberland [...]

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Bill Osl Gives Congressman Perriello the Metaphorical Back of His Hand

I went to two town hall meetings this week, one in Prince Edward County, and one here in Cumberland County. There was not much difference in the questions asked, but one glaring difference did leap out at me.
In Prince Edward County, the chair of the Board of Supervisors is someone I don’t particularly like or [...]

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Cumberland County Appropriates Only Half-Year Budget

In order to preserve some operating funds for the next six months, Cumberland County Board of Supervisors on June 29, 2009, appropriated only half the years budget. The gap was $3,742,341, and various ways to close the gap were being discussed.
The county appropriated half of the budget approved in the first half of this calendar [...]

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Cumberland Supervisor Chair Bill Osl Batting .000

A recent newspaper article in this area remarked that Bill Osl had done everything but kneel down and beg Farmville to rejoin the Commonwealth Regional Council (CRC), an organization purportedly involved in helping localities with planning and economic development issues.
Farmville had declined to renew their membership in the organization in April of this year, after [...]

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This is How Cumberland County Administration Takes Out the Trash

This isn’t something that only happens once in a while, like when there is a storm. This is all the time. It has to stop.

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People are Strange

All it took was for me to go to one Board of Supervisors’ meeting and start recording the proceedings. Although it is legal, it is rarely seen in this neighborhood. For one thing, not very many people know it is permitted.
Not too long after the video and audio recorders stopped, perhaps even the next day, [...]

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HJ634: A Bad Bill Going Nowhere

Recently, Delegate David Poisson (D-Sterling) sent me an unsolicited treatise on his new bill, HJ634. The bill is cosponsored by Frank Hargrove (R-Hanover). There is so much wrong with this, I hardly know where to start.
HJ634 effectively
Amends Section 7 of Article VIII to state that the General Assembly may provide by general law or special [...]

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