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Peter Kleeman, a well-known pedestrian activist (and former Hook writer), has already begun protesting yesterday’s U.S. Senate vote toward a $700 billion financial bail-out package, which both Senators from Virginia approved. Here, Talis Basham, Talis’ mom Oriah, and Kleeman, hold signs on West Main.
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Hemings book wins National Book Award
Last night in New York, New York University law professor Annette Gordon-Reed won the National Book Award for nonfiction for her groundbreaking study of Sally Hemings and three generations of her extended family The Hemingses of Monticello. Among the more surprising revelations in this book, Gordon-Reed’s second book of scholarship on Thomas Jefferson, is that Hemings was actually the half-sister of Jefferson’s late wife Martha. (1)
UVA Law alum Napolitano to head Homeland Security
PHOTO COURTESY UVA SCHOOL OF LAW It looks like President-elect Barack Obama will have at least one UVA connection in his cabinet. The Associated Press reports that Obama has chosen Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano to be his Director of Homeland Secruity, the first woman to ever run the department. Napolitano graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1983, and returned to Charlottesville last year to deliver the law school’s commencement address. (1)
Wintergreen cranks up snowmaking...
… while Mother Nature cranked Snowshoe with 31″ inches of natural snow this week. Wintergreen plans to open for skiing December 12, while Snowshoe opens this Friday. (2)
Bark brochure available
Albemarle County has put out a barking-dog brochure that advises citizens how to approach their neighbors about their noisy canines, which police prefer, and how to seek civil and/or criminal redress. Also, report property and nuisance incidents to Albemarle police online. (1)
Judge's decision could affect Goode-Perriello race
A hearing on December 8 in U.S. District Court in Richmond could affect the outcome the still-too-close-to-call race for Congress between Rep. Virgil Goode (R-Rocky Mount) and Tom Perriello (D-Ivy). Judge Richard L. Williams will decide whether to count absentee ballots from members of the military mailed past the absentee ballot deadline of Saturday, November 1. It remains unknown just how many of those ballots were from the Fifth District, but attorneys for the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) estimate a total of 5,000 absentee ballots had come in after the deadline. Perriello currently leads Goode by 745 votes. (5)
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”
-Thomas Jefferson 1802
I saw them while walking home from work. I wanted to give them some pointers on making signs people can actually read from more than three feet away.
If I had heard of the protest, I may have joined in.
Wish I didn’t have to work so hard, wish I had enough time to stand on street and hold sign up. Wish that if I didn’t miss work today i would still be able to pay electric bill. Wish if I missed more than two days I would still be able to afford groceries and feed my family. Well I guess some people just got more than others. Famous Quote
“Life ain’t fare” mom
I believe Mr. Kleeman is retired and that he works as a consultant on transportation matters. You obviously still have your dues to pay in the force so stop moaning.