Open source, procurement, and gov tech.
Last August, every political blogger in the state that didn’t have a damned good excuse was at the Sorensen Institute Summit on Blogging and Democracy in the Commonwealth. We spent an entire day arguing, speechifying, theorizing, collaborating, and, yes, blogging. Everybody got to know each other, everybody had a great time, and everybody agreed we …
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I’m leaving in the morning for a long weekend in North Carolina’s Outer Banks: Corolla, NC, where Amber and I were married last September. (Though the house we’ll be in is a wee bit smaller this time around.) We’ll be back late Tuesday afternoon. I’m feeling a bit impish: I’ve written a pair of blog …
Eighty people go to Best Buy wearing blue polo shirts and khakis. Hilarity ensues.
You’ll recall that Del. Ward Armstrong (D-Henry County) wrote a letter to Gov. Tim Kaine demanding the resignation of blogger Will Vehrs after Vehrs dared joke about Martinsville. The Cavalier Daily reported in June of 2002 about Del. Armstrong’s own history of making inappropriate jokes: Del. Jeannemarie Devolites, R-Vienna, the majority whip, said she had …
CIA Director Porter Goss has just resigned. The only recent news that I can see would cause that is his speculative implication in the unfolding Republican prostitution scandal in D.C. I wonder if one has anything to do with the other? CNN speculates this might have something to do with MZM.
I’ve decided to have a caption contest, in the style of Commonwealth Conservative’s caption contests. The photograph is the main image on the front page of the Martinsville-Henry County Chamber of Commerce website, from a May 1 Martinsville Bulletin story. Now, Martinsville’s slogan may be “A city without limits,” but there is this one very …
The reaction from Henry County officials to the Will Vehrs kerfuffle is ridiculous. The Martinsville Bulletin, doing all that they can to help create a scandal here, reports on the comments from elected officials: “Shame on him,” said State Senator Roscoe Reynolds, D-Ridgeway, of caption entries posted on a blog by Will Vehrs, a state …
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I’m shocked — shocked! — that a Kennedy would drive drunk.
From the Forward Together PAC’s e-mail today promoting the Mark Warner podcast: In future shows Governor Warner will be responding to questions from pod people like you. “There’s no emotion. None. Just the pretense of it. The words, the gesture, the tone of voice, everything else is the same, but not the feeling.” 4:45pm Update: …
Henry County Chairman of the Board of Supervisors H.G. Vaughn: “The jingle contest…is not something you joke about.”