To conserve and protect
Biscuit Run grant pushes state past Kaine’s 400K-acre conservation goal Staff Report News Tips: freepress2@ntelos.net Gov. Timothy M. Kaine today announced that more than 400,000 acres has been conserved since the first fiscal year of his administration in 2006. Several major acquisitions in Albemarle, King and Queen and Rockbridge counties, along with end-of-the-year easement recordings, [...]
Biscuit Run to become state park
Former largest planned development in Albemarle history to be preserved as open space Staff Report News Tips: freepress2@ntelos.net Gov. Tim Kaine on Wednesday announced the purchase of approximately 1,200 acres in Albemarle County known as “Biscuit Run” to be held by the state as a site for a future state park. “When developed as a [...]
Focus | Verga makes case for GOP nomination in Fifth
Story by Chris Graham freepress2@ntelos.net What’s wrong with America, if you ask Laurence Verga, isn’t just with the direction that the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress is taking, but what their Republican predecessors did, or rather didn’t do, ahead of them. “One of the reasons our country is in the challenged position it [...]
Focus | Perriello ’10: A safe bet? Hardly
Story by Chris Graham We’re about a year away from the November 2010 elections, though you wouldn’t know that by watching local TV and seeing the wall-to-wall commercials telling you about what Fifth District Congressman Tom Perriello has been doing up in Washington. First it was the U.S. Chamber of Commerce with an ad in [...]
AFP Focus | Perriello still ‘undecided’ on health-care reform
Fifth District Congressman Tom Perriello has moved from “no” to “undecided” on the proposed health-care reform making its way around Capitol Hill. “I think we’re moving in the right direction, but I’m not committed yet,” the Democrat told reporters on a conference call Friday morning in which he discussed the 1,900-page bill that is expected [...]
Tom Perriello | Fifth District Report
Recently, a group of more than a dozen superintendents and school officials from around the Fifth District had the opportunity to sit down with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to talk about the challenges and opportunities in our education system. I convened this roundtable to give school districts the opportunity to communicate directly with [...]
AFP InDepth | How to win a write-in campaign
Sally Thomas knew well the conventional wisdom about write-in campaigns – “which is that a write-in candidate can’t win.” But Thomas and a group of friends opposing the planned Route 29 Western Bypass decided that it was worth the fight. “A bunch of us decided that somebody had to step forward and try to run,” [...]
Radio Control Club plans Fly-In this weekend
The Rivanna Radio Control Club is holding its 2009 Fly-In on Saturday, Oct. 10 and Sunday, Oct. 11 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at UVa.’s Milton Field. Flying models of all sizes from Giant Scale, War Birds, Aerobatic, Fun Fly, Helicopters, Trainers and others will be hitting the skies. At noon both days, all [...]
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Tom Perriello | Fifth District Report
As Congress continues to work on health-care reform, I am focused on making sure the voices of Central and Southern Virginians are represented in the debate. I know Virginians are deeply concerned about getting health care costs under control, securing the insurance people already have, and taking care of our seniors. Getting my constituents’ feedback [...]
Posted October 5, 2009