The Frederick Fight (my term) has spilled over into the local blogging scene, thanks to Eric Martin.  For those who haven’t been paying attention (which is probably most of you), Ken Klinge (Tom Davis’ right hand) is calling for Frederick’s head (BD), as is Shaun Kenney  (UPDATE: whoops! Shaun was just reporting the news, not […]

In a personal editorial that contains enough changes of direction to give a reader whiplash, Paul Akers, opinion editor of the Free Lance-Star (or, as I prefer to call it, the far more appropriate Free Lance-Black Hole) embarrasses himself and his newspaper.
He starts well, with a fairly decent critique of the domestic policy of President […]

The editors of the Free Lance-Star attempted to convince Spotsylvanians to join the Virginia Railway Express.  Their arguments sound good at first hearing, but fall apart when thoroughly examined.
Unlike most VRE skeptics, I’m also a VRE rider.  That forces me to give this a little more thought than most on either side of this issue.  In fact, my […]

My Supervisor “asked county administrators last week to investigate possible gas price gouging in Spotsylvania County” (Free Lance Black Hole).  To be fair to Mr. Skinner, he was aware of Hurricane Ike, but he seemed upset that the price rose “the day of the hurricane.”
Maybe if he looked a bit further south he’d realize how […]

 
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 […]

Remember the name Richard Amrhine.  His column in the Free Lance-Black Hole is a museum piece of lefty elitism – the pure, distilled, undiluted version.  The entire column, in fact, reminds me of a famous phrase for those of us who got sucked into the Babylon 5 craze (Londo Molari, In the Beginning):
Arrogance and stupidity, all […]

Last night, the Spotsylvania Board of Supervisors received a report from county staff that projected yawning budget deficits over the next five years (Dan Telvock, Free Lance-Star):
Spotsylvania County residents could see the real estate tax rate increase by as much as 15 cents in five years if the economy doesn’t improve. That would boost the […]

Black Velvet Bruce Li brings our attention to another victim of our porous border, and then makes a very interesting point:
As of July 1st, a new law requires that all jails in Virginia start checking the immigration status of all persons they detain.  How many localities are actually complying with this law isn’t known, but no […]

According to the Free Lace-Black Hole, Supervisor Emmitt Marshall (his district is next to mine) tried to intervene in an animal cruelty case involving the dogs of a son’s friend.  Now, before everyone goes beating up Marshall (who is one of the four tax-hikers on the Spotsy BOS), let’s not forget that this is the Free […]

I received this as a comment on my right-wing liberal blog from Crissy Sharon, owner of the Mainstreet Grill and Bar in Stafford County.  She was reacting to the Stafford Board of Supervisor’s non-Republicans imposing a BPOL tax.  After looking it over, I decided that rather than a comment, it should be a post all its […]