Congratulations Mr. & Mrs. First Congressional District, it’s a Bush Rubber Stamp Republican!
Beau Wright sums up Rep. Wittman’s time in office for William & Mary’s student newspaper, The Flat Hat (emphasis mine):
Wittman has sponsored seven bills — only one of which has been enacted into law — and co-sponsored 190. He has supported bills that […]
The 2008 Presidential Election will make history. The United States will either have our first African-American President or first female Vice President. Like the 2000 Presidential Election, every vote will count. Virginia is already receiving recognition as a battleground state. If you have not registered to vote yet, please click here. You must have the documents postmarked at […]
Downshifting again (this time to more local issues), my local Board of Supervisors had a tough day (Free Lance Star):
The Spotsylvania County Board of Supervisors approved more budget cuts last night to make up for projected revenue losses.
Budget staff told supervisors that fiscal year 2009 revenue projections were already down by $9.1 million, and they […]
Myst was released. Wow, was it only 15 years ago? I think I spent 15 years solving the puzzles in that game.
The winners of the 2008 Rappahannock Independent Film Festival are:
Best Student Film
419: The Nigerian Scam
Directed by
Sorin Mihailovici
Best Use of Theme
Reverie
Directed by
Paula Wood
Best of Show
Vieques
Directed by
Marika Suval
Congratulations to the winners and thank you to all who entered! Stay tuned for the 2009 Call for Entries.
How Children Learn: classic of human, kid-centered learning – Boing Boing – Cory Doctorow discovers unschooling…
It’s interesting how how one can find themselves with a collection of something without actually giving thought to collecting. That’s what has happened with me and beer coasters. Beer coasters, or mats, are one of the pieces of breweriana that seem to …
Mr. Eric Olsen sent me the following last night announcing his run for the vacant Fredericksburg Commonwealth’s Attorney position. This special election is expected to be December 16th. Mr. Olsen has had a successful career as the Stafford Assistant …
Talk about finding some silver lining in a cloud when we need to hear it:FLS:By PAMELA GOULDTourists spent nearly $199 million in Spotsylvania last year, earning the county 18th place for spending among Virginia’s 134 localities.The $198.7 million spen…
While it shouldn’t need to be an “announcement” that the BOS did the right thing financially by ordering cuts across the board by as much as TEN percent. In modern-age Spotsylvania, it seems to be a rare thing. Kudos to the yea-sayers that cuts can a…
