Charlottesville–Right Now with Coy Barefoot

Brian Wheeler of Charlottesville Tomorrow joined Coy Barefoot on the April 8 edition of the show to discuss growth, development and pie.  The last item is perhaps a new wrinkle for Charlottesville Tomorrow, which usually focuses on land use, transportation and community design issues.  But, topics on this episode include:

• What foods do you think of when you of Charlottesville and Albemarle County?
• County adopts real property tax rate and budget; City to adopt its budget April 15
• Are Albemarle County businesses and residents accidentally paying taxes to Charlottesville?
• Charlottesville City Council votes to make second Mall crossing permanent
  
• Land use taxation to be revisited in Albemarle County
• Planning Commission recommends denial of new business park on Berkmar Drive

 

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Delegate Chris Peace (R-97) is a graduate of the Sorensen Institute’s Political Leaders’ program.  Peace was a guest on the April 3, 2008 edition of WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” and discussed Senator Ken Cuccinelli’s campaign for Attorney General, this year’s Senate race, and the upcoming special session.

 

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Fulbright scholar and economist Loretta Napoleoni is the author of Rogue Economics: Capitalism’s New Reality. The book argues that there’s a dark underside to globalism, with massive amounts of money being spent on drugs, prostitutes, and other nefarious activities.

“We live in a world where we’re trapped in a web of commercial, economic and political illusions,” Napoleoni said on the April 3, 2008 edition of WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!”

 

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Freshman Senator Ralph Northam (R-6) joined Coy Barefoot on the April 3, 2008 edition of the program to give his view of the recently concluded General Assembly session.  Northam is a graduate of the Sorensen Institute Political Leaders program.

 

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State Senator Ken Cuccinelli (R-37) joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to talk about his upcoming run for Attorney General in 2009. Cuccinelli is the only remaining Republican from Northern Virginia in the Virginia Senate, and in this show from April 3, 2008, he explains why he plays for the GOP team.

 

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