House Republicans boo C’ville Young Liberals.

There’s a group of young Democrats in the area who I’ve addressed a few times, high school students who have organized a multi-school group named the Charlottesville Young Liberals. They work on campaigns together, arrange educational forums, and generally do the sorts of things that people lament kids don’t do enough of these days. They …

Lost counties, cities, and towns of Virginia.

I love this Wikipedia entry on Virginia locations that have ceased to exist, as such. One whole county became Kentucky. Dozens of counties became Kanawha, later renamed West Virginia. Some towns became military bases during wartime. Southeast Virginia lost a great many small towns to municipal growth in the mid 1900s. Basic City became Waynesboro. …

outside.out.

Blog aggregator outside.in, which is trying to index all locally-focused blogs in the nation, just e-mailed me to inform me that they’ve removed cvillenews.com because “it does not have enough hyperlocal content to be included in our site.” This is the same site that declined the OPML for Charlottesville Blogs last fall, saying that they’d …

Charlottesville Blogs, relaunched.

At long last, I have moved Charlottesville Blogs over to a different aggregation package. As I did a couple of months ago with Virginia Political Blogs, I’ve switched from the unreliable Planet over to the far more reliable (and robust) FeedWordPress. It has the same simple look as always, and I’ve aliased all of the …