A little project that I started a year ago now has been eating up a lot of my time, especially in the past eight months or so. I decided that, as Richmond Sunlight improves the display of legislation, I should create a new site to improve the display of the state code. It could hardly …
Category Archives: Personal
I got an award from the White House.
Yesterday I went to the White House and got a nice award from them. They have an award called “Champions of Change” that they give out to a few people every week. The White House describes it as “a weekly initiative to highlight Americans who are making an impact in their communities and helping our …
Profile of Eddie Cassidy, part 2.
The second part of Don Teschek’s two-part series on my great uncle Eddie Cassidy, for the The Andover (NH) Beacon. The prior installment was about his service in WWII, while this is about how he and his best friend built one another’s vacation homes when they got out of the service.
A profile of Eddie Cassidy.
My great-uncle Eddie Cassidy—my maternal grandmother’s brother—died Sunday night at the age of 93. The Andover (NH) Beacon recently featured a profile of his service in WWII, the first of a two-part series. (The second is still to come.) The author is the grandson of Uncle Eddie’s lifelong buddy, Don Teschek. Don’t miss the photo …
Weekly spot on “Weekend Virginia.”
Those interested in hearing a little state politics discussion on the radio, who are in the western half of the state, may enjoy listening to Weekend Virginia on WVTF. Jim Hoeft and I are each guests on each week’s show, which is only three weeks old at this point. It airs on Saturdays at 6:00 …
“Motion to Compel” in Garrett subpoena
In response to my Motion to Quash, the complainant’s attorney sent back a Motion to Compel yesterday, which is basically their response to my arguments as to why I shouldn’t have to comply with the subpoena. There are two bits about the Motion to Compel that are noteworthy. The first is the claim that bloggers …
Harvard’s CMLP has got my back.
Harvard’s Citizen Media Law Project, a part of the Berkman Center, is my new best friend: In perhaps the most blatant misuse of the subpoena power we’ve seen since the subpoena served on Kathleen Seidel of Neurodiversity last March, a lawyer for Thomas Garrett of Virginia has served a patently overbroad subpoena on blogger Waldo …
I got subpoenaed.
I got subpoenaed. An area fabulist got nailed by the local weekly for trading on an invented story of his life. I wrote about it on my blog about Charlottesville, siding with the weekly, since the guy’s clearly been living a lie. Presumably as a form of intimidation, the guy’s subpoenaed me, and the subpoena …
My top 2008 listens.
My ten most-listened-to artists in 2008: They Might Be Giants Hayes Carll The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis Tom Waits Dave Matthews Band Mike Doughty Cake Suzanne Vega Vince Guaraldi Trio I accidentally stopped using my tracking software for the middle half of the year, so this isn’t perfect. (This is …
Who is already sick and pale with grief.
New life goal: Arrange my existence such that I don’t need to wake up routinely before dawn or get home in the dark. Just last week the sun started coming up late enough to necessitate waking in the dark. (Where I live, an eastward-looming mountain range delays sunrise by 35 minutes.) And it will be …