Charlottesville–Right Now with Coy Barefoot

Best-selling author David Kirby is an investigative journalist whose book Evidence of Harm tracked how mercury in vaccines may be connected to the autism epidemic. In a detailed article published February 25 on the Huffington Post, Kirby reported that the federal government has conceded a case before the Court of Federal Claims that a mercury-based preservative in a vaccine may have contributed to a child’s autism:

“The child’s claim against the government — that mercury-containing vaccines were the cause of her autism — was supposed to be one of three “test cases” for the thimerosal-autism theory currently under consideration by a three-member panel of Special Masters, the presiding justices in Federal Claims Court.”

Kirby goes on to detail the case in this February 28 installment of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now.

“This should change the tenor of the debate,” Kirby said. Could mitochondrial disease play a roll? Kirby wants to know more.

 

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Brian Wheeler is executive director of Charlottesville Tomorrow, a non-partisan organization that covers growth and development issues in our area. This week on the show:

• More on Bundoran Farm, a rural preservation development south of Charlottesville
• Supervisor Rooker seeks to re-open stream buffer discussion
• Citizens continue to dispute the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority’s Community Water Supply Plan
• A primer on how to use online video on sites like Charlottesville Tomorrow
• RWSA sets preliminary water and sewer rates
• Uncertainty about the Advance Mills bridge replacement
• Revenues for state transportation expected to be down 44%
• The latest on the Meadowcreek Parkway Interchange

 

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Second-year U.Va law student Karin Agness is the founder of the Network for Englightened Women, an organization that claims to be “the nation’s premier club for conservative university women.” Agness talks about the alternative perspective provided by NEW, and offers her perspective on the Hillary Clinton campaign.

 

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George Washington wrote an astonishing number of letters, both personal and professional. The majority of the over 140,000 known documents are from his years as Commander-in-Chief during the Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783. Historian Edward Lengel’s new book is called This Glorious Struggle: George Washington’s Revolutionary War Letters. Lengel is the associate editor of the Papers of George Washington at the University of Virginia.

 

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Quentin Kidd is an associate professor of political science in the Department of Government at Christopher Newport University. He joins Coy Barefoot on the February 14 edition of WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to talk about the results of the Virginia primary.

“We would have to go back decades and wouldn’t see the kind of enthusiasm we saw in the Democratic primary and the sort of lack of enthusiasm on the Republican side,” Kidd said. Democrats outvoted Republicans 2-1 on Tuesday. He also breaks down the east-west divide that presented itself in the results, and assesses the General Assembly session post-crossover.

 

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Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling joins Coy Barefoot on the Valentine’s Day edition of WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to talk about the results of the Virginia Republican Primary. Bolling is surprised that former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee had such a good showing. He also begins to handicap the U.S Senate race between former Governors Mark Warner and Jim Gilmore. “This race is going to be a lot more competitive than people think,” he said.

 

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Dr. Arthur “Tim” Garson is Provost of the University of Virginia, and the former Dean of the Medical School. He joins Coy Barefoot on the February 14th edition of WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to weigh in on the health care debate currently going on in the U.S. Presidential Race. Garson is also the author of Health Care Half Truths: Too Many Myths, Not Enough Reality.

 

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Brian Wheeler is the executive director of Charlottesville Tomorrow, a non-partisan organization that covers growth and development issues in the area. This week

• Opposition to the Community Water Supply Plan
• The effect SB768, which eliminates cash proffers, would have on land use in Virginia

 

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Former Charlottesville Mayor and Delegate Mitch Van Yahres died last week at the age of 81. On this episode of WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!”, Coy Barefoot speaks with many people who knew Mitch Van Yahres.

“Mitch was a Delegate who  at times was known as the patron saint of unpopular causes,” said Charlottesville Daily Progress reporter Bob Gibson. Gibson relates the tale of how Van Yahres posthumously endorsed Barack Obama.

“His legacy with me is that I want to grow up and be like him,” said his long-time aide Connie Jorgenson.

“Mitch was always about cultivating the next generation of leadership,” said Holly Hatcher of the Charlottesville Area Community  Foundation.

“Mitch Van Yahres’ footprints will be seen forever in Charlottesville, Virginia,” said Eugene Williams, former director of the Dogwood Housing Limited Partnership.

 

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Bob Gibson of the Charlottesville Daily Progress joins Coy Barefoot on the February 11 edition to describe what the candidates were up to on the eve of the Virginia presidential primary. Gibson also talks about the passing of former Mayor and Delegate Mitch Van Yahres, Clinton’s question and answer period with Larry Sabato’s class, the Jefferson-Jackson dinner from Saturday, and more.

Coy Barefoot says that Senator John McCain and former President Bill Clinton will both be guests on Newsradio 1070 WINA’s Charlottesville Live program tomorrow morning.

 

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