My new adventure: The State Decoded.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …