Author Archive for Schilling Show
Introducing IMPACT™: I’m Paying Additional County/City/Commonwealth Taxes
IMPACT is a resource for the terminally undertaxed. It provides an opportunity for citizens to pay additional taxes.
WHY IMPACT?
In these difficult economic times, local and state governments are not receiving the significant increases in revenues to which they have become accustomed. While many support raising taxes on everyone to continue tax [...]
Transparent, schmansparent: City spokesman stonewalls sources of information
Charlottesville City spokesman, Ric Barrick, is paid a pretty penny in order to take the heat off of cowardly councilors, doltish department heads, and an AWOL City Manager. Those quivering invertebrate can take refuge in the muculent recesses of City Hall while Barrick, as the public face of Charlottesville government, catches the inevitable flack.
Lately, though, [...]
Love for sale: Norris, Szakos pimp-out Charlottesville City Hall to DNC
Americans rightly revere their government buildings as sacrosanct. Unlike Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, Red China and other despotic dynasties, our government structures purportedly belong to the people, not to the governors themselves.
At all levels of government—federal, state, local—citizens hold a valid expectation that their political representatives, and the edifices that house governmental activities, will not become [...]
Deeds speaks! Breaks silence on Bell’s “Composite Index” budget amendment
At the behest of the Albemarle County School Board, Delegate Rob Bell (R-57) has proposed amending Virginia’s state budget in order to better reflect the annual wealth transfer from Albemarle County to Charlottesville City under the region’s Revenue Sharing Agreement. Currently, in assessing financial need of the localities, Virginia sees Albemarle County Government as $18 [...]
If at first you don’t deceive, lie, lie again: Charlottesville City spokesman denies, then admits hiring lobbyist
Much as been made by Charlottesville Mayor Dave Norris and his downtown cronies regarding a commitment to open and transparent government—but actions speak louder than words and the road to City Hall transparency is paved with good intentions.
Recently local media reported that Charlottesville had hired a lobbyist to defeat Del. Rob Bell’s proposed state budget [...]
Breaking News: Virginia’s 5th Congressional District to get another GOP contender?
A field of seven GOP contenders is poised to grow to eight as 40-year-old Albemarle County resident, Scott Schultz, prepares to enter Virginia’s 5th District primary race to unseat freshman Democrat Tom Perriello.
Schultz, a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, and the proprietor of Griffins Perch Metalwork, is expected to formally announce his candidacy [...]
Guest Editorial: Striptease Christmas show at Bel Rio
“Striptease Christmas Show” at Bel Rio
by: Kimber Hawkey, Charles Gendrot, Alison Ruffner, Janet Hatcher, Jennifer Braverman, Stan Braverman, Megan Vail, Jonathan Lawrence Braverman, Mrs. Jessie Hester Braverman, Eleanor Biasiolli, Alma Mills, Shirley Shotwell, Frances Racette, Joan Dragon, Hope and Brad Merricks.
The show started at 10pm Christmas night, Dec 2009…
In response to requests [...]
Breaking news: Albemarle County schools to take $7M hit?
Governor Bob McDonnell has reversed a budget decision by predecessor Tim Kaine, which could leave a gap of up to $7 million in Albemarle County Public Schools’ upcoming budget.
Kaine, as a cost-saving measure, decided to freeze implementation of biennial changes to Virginia’s composite index, a move that “saved” state government approximately $29 million dollars but [...]
5th District candidate forum: Importance of the 10th Amendment
With an aggregation of seven GOP candidates vying to unseat Democrat Tom Perriello in Virginia’s 5th Congressional District, narrowing the field may be difficult for the average Republican primary voter.
To assist decision making, The Schilling Show Blog and News invited each of the announced GOP aspirants to address one of the Nation’s most critical issues: [...]
iPods and laptops and junkets, oh my! Local schools swimming in cash
In the midst of another budget season, weekly we endure administrators, school board members, teachers, students, and parents complaining about unfathomable shortfalls in local school divisions.
Loose-spending elected officials in Charlottesville, Albemarle, and surrounding counties “cry wolf” each budget cycle, claiming scarcity of “resources” to properly educate (i.e. indoctrinate) our children and to perform myriad other [...]
