When I wrote my post yesterday about the proposed open burning ordinance I was not aware that it was an adaptation of the Air Pollution Control Board’s model ordinance. According to Mike Finchum, Director of Planning and Community Development, the Control Board told county staff that they were not allowed to change certain provisions of […]

And these go much farther than the regular statewide regulations (PDF).

And consider this: According to the Virginia Department of Forestry, only two other jurisdictions in the state have local burning regulations in place: Roanoke County and Isle of Wight County.
The public hearing for the proposed ordinance is today at 7:30 p.m.
Thoughts (broken done by section):
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Of course, the Brits were the ones originally response for bombing the city. No word if he’s also going to apologize to the Poles for the United States selling them out to the Soviets for 45 years, which ranks a hell a lot higher on the list of United States failures than the bombing of […]

Does anyone find it to be weird when you go outside and the sun is out but it’s raining like crazy?

He also refused to say where the body was (The Free Lance–Star, Ellen Biltz’s Twitter page), which I found a little weird.
Couple of possibilities there: The prosecution knew that the body was disposed of in such a way that nothing could be recovered and didn’t want Gaudenzi to be able to get a lighter sentence […]

Virginia Lawyers Weekly, citing the The Roanoke Times, is reporting that Timothy Heaphy appears to have been chosen to be the next United States Attorney for the Western District of Virginia.[1][2] For those unfamiliar with the nomination process for U.S. Attorneys, the Senators representing the state — in this case, Jim Webb and Mark Warner […]

On February 7, 2008, Rob Wittman voted for a moratorium on the submission of earmark requests in the House of Representatives; the moratorium, however, failed to pass. The same day, he issued a press release condemning Speaker Nancy Pelosi for opposing the moratorium.
By the end of April 2008, Wittman had submitted $132,500,000 in earmark requests. […]

Seemed like an appropriate song given recent events.

UPI:
Colleges and universities in Virginia’s Hampton Roads area are potential breeding grounds for terrorism, a state police report contends.
A 200-page report issued by the state police’s Virginia Fusion Center says terror and extremist groups have links to the state’s schools, singling out unnamed historically black colleges and the evangelical Christian Regent University, the (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot […]

Nice to see the government is cutting back.
More on this later, kids.