Charlottesville–Right Now with Coy Barefoot

Super Tuesday might more appropriately be called Super Wednesday. That’s what political analyst Dave Wasserman calls this past week’s election returns, which he says were only beginning to make sense until the day after the primaries and caucuses. Wasserman is the House editor for the Cook Political Report, and he phoned in to the February 6 edition of WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to talk about the ascendancy of Senator John McCain, and about the “race for the ages” that is currently going on between Senators Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama.

 

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Investigative reporter Dan Olmsted joins Coy Barefoot on the February 7 edition of WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to continue the discussion about the autism epidemic. Olmsted is now keeping his readers up to date on a blog called The Age of Autism, which also features articles from other contributers. His work will soon be collected in a new book on the history of mercury poisoning.

 

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The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors voted 4-2 this week to approve three ordinances designed to protect rural areas. However, many people felt the new rules infringe on landowner’s property rights. Supervisor David Slutzky (Rio) joined Coy Barefoot the day after the vote to explain why he supported the ordinances.

 

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Betty Mooney and former City Councilor Kevin Lynch joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to explain why they’ve formed the group Citizens for a Sustainable Water Plan. Essentially, they feel that the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority’s plan to build a new dam at the Ragged Mountain Reservoir is not environmentally friendly. The Charlottesville City Council and the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors approved the concept in the spring of 2006 to build the dam, as well as a new pipeline between Ragged Mountain and the South Fork Rivanna Reservoir.

 

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Author Joseph Cummins‘ new book traces the various ways in which American elections have been influenced through chicanery. He joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to discuss Anything for a Vote: Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots and October Surprises in U.S. Presidential Election Campaigns. After the 2004 campaign and the “Swift-boating” of Senator John Kerry, Cummins said he wanted to write a book that describes some of the country’s least flattering examples of democracy, and the result is a year-by-year catalog of various dirty tricks that have helped elect our presidents - from both parties.

Some fun insults are used in this interview: hermaphrodite, atheist, and “lady of the night.”

 

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Local history takes center stage every Friday when Rick Britton joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!”

This week on the show, Rick previews a lecture series he’ll be presenting at the Senior Center on Civil War related day-trips. One of them will include a trip to Port Republic, and Rick explains just whath happened there.

But in the main topic for this week, Rick tells the story of three women with connection to Albemarle County. First, the Langhorne sisters. They were the daughters of Chiswell Dabney Langhorne, and moved to western Albemarle in 1894. Irene became the model for one of the “Gibson girls” and Nancy wound up becoming Lady Astor, the first woman to be sat in the British House of Commons. Rick also has the story of Maude Coleman Woods, a Charlottesville woman who became one of the first people to be called “Miss America.” However, the story doesn’t end well, as Rick explains.

 

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Liz Chadderdon is the president of the Chadderdon Group, a Democratic direct-mail consulting firm. She called Coy Barefoot on the WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to talk about what it’s like to go on Bill O’Reilly’s show, why she believes in Democratic values, the role of research in the presidential campaign, her shock at John McCain’s success in the presidential race, and more.

 

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