All Entries in the "Environment" Category
Green building, brown bushes: Charlottesville’s colorblind environmental hypocrisy
For all its self-aggrandizing blather of being a “green city,” prioritizing a “more robust tree canopy,” and invoking environmental sustainability, practically speaking, Charlottesville city is pulling emerald wool over our eyes.
Consider CAT’s (Charlottesville Area Transit) “new green facility” (aka the green goddess)—a modern marvel of LEED-certified energy efficiency goodness. So esteemed is this advanced edifice, [...]
Soaked: Ratepayers underwrite RWSA $5k gift to Rivanna Conservation Society
Times must be flush at the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority (RWSA).
At their June 22, 2010 board meeting, the embattled authority (infamously known for raising water and sewer rates to compensate for conservation–related revenue shortfalls) quietly pumped $5,000 of ratepayer money into the caissons of a political ally—the Rivanna Conservation Society (RCS).
RCS, a private, left-leaning [...]
Guest editorial: Is Big Brother a bio-terrorist?
Is Big Brother a bio-terrorist?
by Tim Griffith
The U. S. Government has waged a Bio-Terrorism campaign on American citizens for over a decade! It’s a fact and only the victims seem to be aware of it. The victims are the states of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, and most notably the people that live and work in [...]
Progressive Progress: Daily newspaper refuses correction of wayward reporter
The Daily Progress protects its writers, even when they pilfer and even when they slant.
When the DP recently ran a Brian McNeill-authored story that contained critical and potentially misleading omissions, the newspaper’s editorial department declined to run a letter-to-the-editor (LTE) setting the writer (and the record) straight. According to the paper’s internal policy, such responses [...]
Guest editorial: Debunking Charlottesville’s climate change hysteria
Debunking Charlottesville’s climate change hysteria
by Dr. Charles Battig
The recent announcement that Ms. Cynthia Adams, Charlottesville’s Climate Protection Program Coordinator, was hired by the Local Energy Alliance Program (LEAP) prompted me to re-visit the City’s “Environmental Sustainability” page. Scrolling down to the “A Green City” option, led me to the next set of options, and finally [...]
Government school failure: Indoctrinated Albemarle schoolgirl solicits tax increase
Central Virginia’s Albemarle County is a municipality like many others across the United States: It is relatively affluent and it spends an inordinate amount of confiscated citizen wealth (i.e. taxes) on funding government schools.
A recent series of public hearings on the Albemarle County budget brought forward a surprising number of local residents and government school [...]
RSWA settles Van der linde lawsuit
The Hook is reporting a settlement in the unjust Rivanna Solid Waste Authority vs. Van der linde Recycling lawsuit.
The RICO action brought against Mr. Van der linde was settled for $19.1 million less than the $20 million potentially sought by the RSWA, with Van der linde paying $600 thousand and BFI, who was not a [...]
Charlottesville City government’s “dirtiest” word
In the godless, politically correct microcosm known as Charlottesville City government, the term, “Christmas,†is akin to a “four-letter wordâ€â€” to be avoided in all instances (except one).
The dreaded “C-word†no longer is referenced when the city is soliciting a donated tree to decorate for the Holy day once called “Christmas†and now re-Christened by [...]
Guest Editorial: Exposing the international “climategate” scandal
Exposing the international “climategate” scandal
by Dr. Charles Battig
The letter-to-the-editor format, Daily Progress December 6, 2009 “Investigate data behind global-warming theory,†could provide only a small peek behind the scenes of the current “climategate†scandal. The scientific doubts raised by the scandal make even more sense when statements by such scientists as Stanford Professor of Climatology [...]
RSWA Van der linde lawsuit star witness: Extortion letter revealed
The Rivanna Solid Waste Authority (RSWA) knew they were hanging their hat on a flimsy hook when they bedded Richard Wade Kendrick as their “star” witness in the RICO lawsuit against Van der linde Recycling.
Kendrick’s long history of legal transgression and punishment was crowned by a December 10, 2009 extortion conviction. The extortee? His former [...]
