Richmond Virginia News Time Capsule July 2008

Richmond Virginia News Time Capsule July 2008

July 28 to August 3, 2008

Day 2 Newscycle
-ABC: Kaine: Obama's List 'Seems to Be Getting Shorter
-AP: Kaine Still Evasive About VP Scenario
-Blogmeter: Yes We Kaine?
-Boston Globe: Campaigns try to get timing right on VP choices
-Daily Press: Is Kaine the right No. 2 for Obama?
-Daily Progress: Kaine as VP bad for Virginia Democrats?
-Free Lance Star: Is Kaine being eyed?
-The Nation: Tim Kaine? Don't Bet On It
-Paul Goldman: VP choice prediction: Obama wants running mate who didn't support the Iraq War
-R'blog: VP Kaine?
-Times Dispatch: From City Council to vice president? | Kaine won't rule himself off ticket | Bandwagon II | Jeff's Notes: Kaine and the Presidency | Mother of presidents, distant cousin of VPs | VP Kaine may cause Va. shift
-VA Pilot: Kaine stays silent about possible vice presidential nomination
-VA Virtucon: Timmy! Spending Money Promoting Self For VP?
-Washington Post: Kaine coy on his VP prospects
-WRVA: Cantor Talks McCain

WRVA Radio Interview: Kaine Doesn't Budge In Front Of Media Circus
-Baltimore Sun: A winning ticket?
-MSNBC: Kaine continues to get VP questions
-Roanoke Times: Kaine continues to dodge VP questions
-Times Dispatch: Kaine fine-tunes VP talk | On Kaine the uniter, views split | The star of 'Who, me? For VP?' | Virginia's first lady champions Obama | Will Barack Obama Raise Kaine?
-USA Today: Potential Dem VP Kaine: No plans for convention speech
-Washington Post: The Governor for Obama
Politico: Kaine 'very, very high' on VP shortlist
-Buttermilk and Molasses: Does Dating Tim Kaine Count for Anything?
-Huffington Post: Tim Kaine: Obama's Vice President?
-Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball
-Raising Kaine: the reasons I've heard from sources close to Kaine why he should be picked
*He's fluent in Spanish
*He's a Roman Catholic
*He can talk comfortably on faith issues
*He's a southern governor (both parts are good)
*He's NOT a "Washington insider"
*He's from the Midwest originally
*He'll be "vetted" easily, as he's reportedly a "choirboy"
*He's a strong campaigner and fundraiser
*He and Obama have strong personal chemistry
*He can help carry Virginia
-Reuters: Obama meets on No. 2 pick: Kaine? Biden? Bayh?
-Sun Times: Obama's To-Do List
-Times Dispatch: Reports: Obama is screening Kaine | Kaine for VP? Look at the fallout
-VA Pilot: Kaine on Obama's short list of running mates, sources say
-Washington Post: Kaine in 'Serious' Talks With Obama
-Follow the VA Blog Buzz
City Auditor to Look into Tax Bill Mistake | City Auditor Dalal Umesh has become the unlikely rock star of Richmond government
Volunteering 61 Million Strong; Need and Momentum Grow
Virginia is ranked #29 | Richmond Ranks #27 of 50 major cities (hey, they called us a major city)
-Richmond Profile
-Volunteering and a Life Well-Lived
-Va. in the middle of the pack for volunteering
-WRVA Audio
-Patrick Henry grad aids families in Bangladesh
-Volunteer NOW!
With growth comes interest in planning
Visual Miller and Roads Progress via MWN
Desperate GOP or Legitimate Beef?
-Barbs Traded on Va. Voter Drives
-Editorial: Widespread voter fraud? Hardly
-Frederick Alleges Voter Fraud | Myth of Voter Fraud
-Fraud suspected in wave of voter registrations
-GOP Chief decries voter fraud, thin on specifics
-GOP Wants Voter Registration Investigation
-Kaine Enters Dispute Over Vote Fraud Allegations
Gilmore forced to battle against a human ATM
Sheila Hill-Christian Bids Adieu...
-Mark Holmberg Investigates
-Richmond.com
-Times Dispatch | Transcript
-WRVA
Commentary
-City Hall adrift after top official quits post | Deck stacked against Hill-Christian from start | A Real Shock
-Goldman: Does Richmond media care that Wilder, Council are violating City Charter on choosing an acting Chief Administrative Officer?
-Wilder's Package Continues To Unwrap

Hill-Christian not at budget standoff meeting

Rewind: Mayor selects Sheila Hill-Christian as City of Richmond's Chief Administrative Officer (video)

Wilder�s dog resigns
Testing the Waters 2008: A Guide to Water Quality at Vacation Beaches
-Virginia Surf Scores High In Water Quality
-Peninsula beaches have cleaned up their act
James River algae a threat to animals, not people
Divided we stood; 1968: In Richmond the battles over race would continue long after MLK's assassination | Rewind Civil Rights Memorial
Many workers on VA Beach Verizon project are in U.S. illegally
Development Roundup
-City Is Vigorously Battling Blight
-More White Oak Tenants Announced
-Roseland Development deferred for 30 days (TD | Midlothian Exchange)
-A mid-life crisis for Swift Creek Reservoir
-Goochland County planners to offer revised proposal
-Growth in Williamsburg
Missing among the representatives of the committee to select a new school superintendent are � wait for it � actual parents of Richmond schoolchildren or any active teachers in the public school system
-Running On Empty
-Many running out of gas on Virginia highways
Same Cover Story: (Who Wrote the better headline?)
-Style: John Warner�s Big Finish; The recent greening of a graying senator
-Portfolio: Out Like a Lion; With six months left in his 30-year career, Virginia Sen. John W. Warner adopts a fervent new mission: turning energy independence into a matter of national security
Aide to Sen. Webb found shot to death
Community service for 10 in protest, Two others involved in rally against Dominion Resources will go to trial
Environmental group files lawsuits against Wise County coal plant

Consequences We (Times Dispatch) support the plant at Wise. We oppose the tactics used against Dominion. But we appreciate the sentiments expressed by Green...

Rewind
Two top Navy officers fired over $70 million carrier blaze
How to deal with contractor fraud
Roofing Con Artist Caught

Forbes Magazine's "Best State for Business"
-Virginia Ranks as Best State for Business for Third Year
-Is Virginia Losing Its Mojo?
The ghost fleet of idle ships in the James River is rapidly diminishing
Supremacist Escapes Sanction for Internet Posts About Troutman Sanders Lawyer
Monroe's courses cost city $15,937

Subject: Request to Add Information (Bob Holsworth, Dean, College of Humanities and Sciences speaks)

Degree debacle threatens VCU leader's legacy -- and job

At VCU, a scandal weighs heavily

Smoke and Mirrors: While scandals and secrecy become headlines at VCU, uncertainty hovers over the fallout � and President Eugene Trani

Rewind
source: VADCR
The Virginia League of Conservation Voters: 2008 Conservation Grades are in for Legislators (PDF) | Full Scorecard
-Richmond scores higher on the environment

RICHMOND AREA SENATORS
Senator Henry L. Marsh, III 75%
Senator Senator Stephen H. Martin 43%
Senator Donald McEachin 78%
Senator Ryan T. McDougle 25%
Senator Walter A. Stosch 50%
Senator John Watkins 67%

RICHMOND AREA DELEGATES
Delegate M. Kirkland "Kirk" Cox 50%
Delegate Rosalyn R. Dance 100% HERO
Delegate Franklin P. Hall 100% HERO
Delegate Riley E. Ingram 50%
Delegate William R. Janis 43%
Delegate Dwight Clinton Jones 100% HERO
Delegate Jennifer L. McClellan 100% HERO
Delegate Joseph Morrissey 100% HERO
Delegate Samuel A. Nixon, Jr. 50%
Delegate John M. O'Bannon, III 38%
Delegate� Christopher K. Peace 63%
Delegate Jimmie Massie 43%
Delegate Manoli Loupassi 57%

Business loans harder to get
Questionable findings found in Blackwater contracts
inRich.com F's up Twitter | Rewind: Why do you use Twitter?
I Love My Hood
-20 Questions with Gabe Corbett, social director for Rocketts Landing
-Preserving Goochland�s rural charm
Why do the traffic lights downtown seem so poorly timed?
No need to look far or wide to find many great nature trails | Protecting the Wild and Wonderful James River
Rolling along on the RVA Segway tour | Segwaying Through River City With Power List Bloggers | RVA Segway Tour of Richmond is all About Fun
Flame Retardant: The NFL's first official blogger suffers blowback | Redskins Blog
Lesbians Tip Well
New Food Blog on the Scene: Eating Out Richmond!
Animal Planet...
-Coyote sightings reported in Cville | Rewind
-Using dogs to hunt is just way of life for some
-8 rare sheep die by an unwitting tourist
Richmond- a gallery closing and other distractions
Richmond's National offers alternative to D.C. clubs
Farmers Market Week
-Buy local. Eat local. Film local.
-Eat local for VA Farmers Market Week
-Ante upped in 'eat local' challenge
-Chef to the governor wants to watch you chew
Check out Katie Ukrop's house

Domino: neo-southern belle (article not online)
Restaurant Soap Opera in Cville
Metal may save millions of sharks
Going home again can make sense - and dollars, too
Annual pony swim to be held today at Chincoteague
$1.50 Cheesecake Slice from Short Pump Cheescake Factory
LAMB OF GOD will enter the studio in September
Former VCU Dean Takes Over Arts Council
In Vino Veritas Reviews the Shockoe Showdown
Survey: Randolph-Macon 6th in nation on list of party schools | Full List | LiveJournal Discussion
Top Party Schools in Country, Shockingly, Correspond With Top Athletic Programs Except For...Randolph-Macon?

Randolph Macon Dominates the Lists!
-How widely used is hard liquor?
#2 Randolph Macon

-How widely used is beer?
#4 Randolph Macon
#9 Hampden-Sydney College
#18 James Madison University
How about a little something for the effort? | Start Tipping Better
Bopst Show XV
Gelati Celesti dishes out flavor | Richmond's Best Ice Cream
Chris Brown is Everywhere
Singer takes court at Innsbrook hoops tourney
Conditions Improving at Richmond City Jail
Predators...
-Marine facing porn charges
-Accused cyber-solicitor �friended� 100 local underage girls
C-ville Cover: Ten years in the life of a Charlottesville drug dealer
Diaper Mystery Solved
Police Need Help Identifying ATM Robber
Slow and Steady Gets the Bust As Turtle's Trail Leads to Drugs
Shooting Over Video Game In Henrico
Escaped Inmate Possibly Headed To Richmond
Chesterfield Teens Arrested In BB Attack
Additional charges filed in Powhatan teen's murder | CBS6 | Powhatan Today | More Taliaferro
Hancock Fabrics Clerk On The Run...Innocent
Sting operation nets suspected prostitute arrests on Jeff Davis
Internet sting nabs man from Illinois
VA Beach Night club security guard charged with extortion
Gloucester supervisors are offered deal | Prosecutor to Gloucester four: Resign, and I'll drop charges | More Gloucester 4
Want to be Ricky Javon Gray's pen pal? | Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty - Pen Pal Requests
Mob robs Domino�s pizza driver in Charlottesville

July 21 to July 27, 2008

Richmond's skyline cries out for an extreme makeover | Richmond's Very Un-Signature Skyscape -- A Reflection of Un-Signature Leadership | Urban Planet Discussion | Rewind: Williams Mullen Building
Virginia Tech's secrecy only fuels questions about the massacre
Joint Statement by the Richmond Slave Trail Commission and Virginia Commonwealth University | NPR Audio | Rewind: African Burial Ground Controversy
Richmond Haters
Most of Virginia remains in throes of housing slump

Richmond Housing Numbers Are In...

A Welcome Slump?

Richmond foreclosures jump 805 percent | Soars (#85 of 100...still low from a national relative perspective)

Assessed values in Goochland dropping

Real estate values are flat, sales continue to decline in Chesterfield

Glutted market, wary buyers hit region's homebuilders hard in VA Beach

U.S. Foreclosures Double as House Prices Decline

Rents Dropping for office and retail

Gilmore Filed False Information On Campaign Disclosure Forms

Gilmore in Hot Water?

End of Henrico Panhandlers?
Our Time: Poverty and public schools are linked as the City's two enduring challenges
The Most Powerful Man in Richmond: #1 William Goodwin
Style's Fifth Annual Power List | WRVA Inteview (audio) | Rewind: Buttermilk and Molasses Speculation

A Board Member of Wachovia

The Most Powerful Woman in Richmond: #9 Allison Weinstein, a trustee at the University of Richmond and President of Weinstein Properties Management

New Media Duo (John Murden of Church Hill People�s News and Ross Catrow of RVABlogs) Split the Coveted 75th Spot!...
Reaction:
-Buttermilk and Molasses | Popular Not Powerful
-Made in Richmond
-River City Rapids
-RVANews

What�s missing in Richmond most is what�s missing on Style�s Power List

Screw the Power Elite

How does Richmond define �powerful�?

Veteran Richmond news anchor Gene Cox has reportedly gone �absolutely apeshit� over his rejection on Style Weekly�s annual Power List... (WRVA�s Been Had | Gene Cox unfazed | Old Media Is Eating New Media's Pulsating Heart | The RT-D on the TA/WRVA Cox story episode) | HE has a sense of humor...Loves biting monkey stories more than anything else

Jack Goes Forth to crash this party...

Most promising startups in Richmond? | Never Give Up: fund-raising challenges and the Venture Forum | Companies To Watch
AT LAST...
Source: Virginia Civil Rights Memorial
Photos | Video

Off Its High Horse: The Virginia Civil Rights Memorial comes down to our level.

Powhatan Today's My Point of View

�Virginia�s Rosa Parks�

Early activists for civil rights to be honored with memorial | Statue a first for Virginia: Monument will bring some racial parity to Capitol Square | AP

A key moment in the struggle | It Is Time

County Seeks to Heal Racial Wounds

Civil rights symposium focused on public education

Barbara Johns, Leader of protest has firm place in history

Want to change Richmond�s public schools?

NY Times: The Next Kind of Integration

Non-Profits Feel the Squeeze of Fuel | The Hoople Group Challenge
VPAP has posted the mid-year reports for city council and mayoral candidiates running this November | More Mayor Race News
Woman is first consecrated virgin in Richmond diocese
Richmond Magazine's Best & Worst (print edition only) Reaction
-Sham?
-Elliott Yamin Fans
-North Richmond News

More Buzz had the article been available online? (for comparisons, see Style's Power List Coverage)

Richmond Mag Creeps Into World of Online Content
Rewiring the Times-Dispatch | Rewind: TD in Crisis

Jackess of All Trades

Will online advertising revenues increase enough to offset the decline in print ad sales?

Daily Press Reduces Staff

Ad sales tumble 16% at NY Times...Raises Newsstand Price to $1.50 | New York Times May Face Junk Rating, S&P Warns | Extra! Extra! Credit Concerns at New York Times!

Beyond the tap- Series on Virginia Water Supply
Getting Drunk in Chesterfield Schools
Hands On Greater Richmond sets day of action
Carytown: Yesterday, Today, & Tomorrow

Shockoe Bottom-ing out?

End Game: Falling on Swords...

Another VCU official resigns over degree flap | Mark Holmberg Uncovers New Information | Monroe-Gate Resignations Continue | Col. William H. Parrish (link should expire soon)

VCU Announces Personnel Changes | TD | WRVA | Charlotte Slant | Dr. Robert D. Holsworth (link should expire soon)

VCU board to discuss how probe was conducted | AP

VCU's Trani released from hospital

The Insider: "Harry Potter"
Mark Holmberg On VCU Resignations | One VCU Leader Tells CBS 6 Why He Stepped Down

The Rodney Monroe Story Thread

A Tale of Two Outrages | Scandal Reaches Critical Mass at VCU (Well, I owe Style an apology...See Faculty Fumes, Condemns VCU�s Philip Morris Deal)

Has Gene Trani Stayed On Too Long?

Rewind: Times Dispatch
...We won't repeat the details, because the accusations don't hold up under close scrutiny. David Ress, one of The Times-Dispatch's top investigative reporters -- and not one known for giving home-field preferences to local big-shots -- took a look at the charges made by the New York newspaper. He found nothing out of the ordinary...
Started the Whole Thing: At One University, Tobacco Money Is a Secret
Rewind
When the Curtain Rises | Setting the Stage
-Reaction: Richmond�s Priorities: Ugly Stuff Indeed

Serious Fun� With Your Money

Performers take CenterStage in 2009 | CenterStage Likes Big Butts, They Can Not Lie | Richmond to help parking authority | Weekly Construction Updates

Downtown Master Plan sent to City Council | Wilder Shouts Pass the Downtown Master Plan! (The Downtown Plan: With Friends Like These) | ZZZZZ | Approving 'The Plan' | One Realtor's Take | The new glow of the proposed downtown master plan reflects the politics at play � at the expense of the greater good | The Downtown Plan Provides...Umm...Growth? | Rewind
Virginia Light Rail?... Charlottesville... Roanoke
Just What We Need: More Businesses Begging for Public Funds
Is Chesterfield poised to become the Loudoun County of Central Virginia? | Rewind: Chesterfield is 15 percent more affluent than Henrico County
GRTC to discuss eliminating 9 bus routes today | CBS6 | Protest | Rewind
Azalea Connector rescued

GRTC to cut routes, citizens question fairness

GRTC Chief To UR: Pay Up
Riders plead that bus routes be kept
So much for the Zion Crossroads outlet mall
Illegal immigrants fleeing? Rumors suggest the sour economy and public opinion are forcing illegal immigrants to leave the area
Moore Fights Back to Take Virginia State Billiards Championship
(Not) Getting Laid in RVA
-Chasing Amy
-Does Blogging Hurt Your Sex Life?
First came fun in the sun. Now, a watch for cancer. | Avoid Sunburn
X-Files Scene Set in Richmond (probably filmed in Vancouver) | Mulder and Scully live in Richmond? | An Homage: Richmond writer Vince Gilligan | IMDB
Charlottesville Beer Delivery Probably, could work in Richmond...
Read, Drink, & Be Merry reviews Rowlands
My Love-Hate Relationship With Ellwood Thompsons Continues
ULTRA STAYCATION COMPILATION!
-The weekend guide to Richmond
-75 Dirt Cheap Ways to Enjoy Yourself around Richmond
-Staycations: Close, cheap, fun
-Chillin' in the City
-Touring Hollywood Cemetery on foot
-Canal tours grow in popularity
-Virginia is for Lovers (and Presidents)
-Welcome to my world
-Richmond, VA
-Metro Richmond Zoo: Much to see and do
-More Staycation Ideas
Screw the Staycation...
-Gas Prices Dropping
-Hear historical icons in Colonial Williamsburg
-WaPo Hearts Cville
-Madison's Montpelier restored to old glory
-Floyd Fest? | Roanoke Times | Live Updates
Families "stay-cation" at home to save money
Tourism takes a hit at Virginia and North Carolina beaches | Jamestown tourism dips, so do other Va. attractions
Top Richmond Bars For Guys
Seized birds on way to Fla.
A new festival aims to grab national attention for Richmond�s arts district | Call for Participation | InLight Richmond (also see Nuit Blanche)
Tunes for Trails

Trails memorandum: Everyone's a winner

Pat McGee Band Goes Old School

Top 9 Richmond bands you should go see

Punk News: Landmines

Pimpin in Richmond

Virtual Pimp

Pimp's Life Ain't Easy

Grab Your Dick & Double-Click
Audit finds excessive Internet porn surfing at city print shop

Wilder Investigates

CBS 6 Investigates City Print Shop Audit | ...they (Times Dispatch) missed the underlining story

City employees need to browse for porn on better sites

Joey's Hot Dogs versus City Dogs
Bev's versus Ben n Jerry
Source: Robert Vaughan Myspace
Marks and Harrison? Let's Settle It...
DMB�s Moore re-admitted to hospital
File Away: Best of the 7 Hampton Roads Cities 2008
Suffolk eatery in hot water over expansion
Cool Richmond House (Owner of Clementine)
Source: VA Pilot | Wikipedia | Official Site
Richmond rapper Skillz writes when others can't 'I'm a ghostwriter, I'm the cat that you don't see/I write hits for rappers you like and charge 'em a fee'
-Skillz Drops A Million
Cirrus Vodka Profile
Thrice-Baked Potatoes
Richmond becoming �the second Hamptons� for the rich and famous...Richmond, Massachusetts that is
The 48 Hour Film Project
-Mashup
-Style
-Richmond.com
-AF Creative
-Chewy Lives!
-Ouroboros
-WIP
-Wahokia
-Local Filmmakers Prepare for 48 Hour Film Project
Richmond native turns her adventure into a short film
Read, Drink, & Be Merry Reviews the Hard Shell
South African food and wine festival attracts thousands
She was a third runner up in Virginia...Proof that Virginia women are hotter than New Yorkers!
-Miss Brooklyn is from � Manhattan
-Miss Brooklyn is beauty pageant vet from Virginia
-New Miss New York is U.Va. grad, former Miss Virginia contestant
Shockoe Bartender Insider (When To Cut People Off) | Start Tipping Better
Southside Stunner Goes Forth
Bopst Show XIV

Some positive developments have occurred in the area since Michael Vick's dogfighting conviction | Rewind: Vick
Imagine you're sitting in your living room when two people you don't know suddenly appear outside your apartment's sliding-glass door. One of them is holding a gun. Next thing you know, they've shattered the glass...
Virginia executes man who beat co-worker with brass lamp
Goochland County Man Shoots And Kills Alleged Intruder | Goochland Gazette Coverage
16-month-old boy dies in Richmond; mother's boyfriend in custody | Update | Vigil
Richmond infant died of blunt-force trauma | Boyfriend held in toddler's death to appear in court | 16-month-old remembered in East End | Bond set for mother of dead toddler
Man Robs CVS Of Painkillers
Police raid Great Big Flea Market | Trademark Infringement Investigation Results in Arrests | 9 Arrested
Club Velvet owner Moore released from jail | Is notorious strip-club owner Sam Moore becoming a folk hero? | Long Discussion String
Con Artists Target Elderly
Leaders ban together against racial comments | Timeline of a Tragedy | More Taliaferro Stories
Ex-Mary Baldwin professor indicted on child pornography
Two Dead After Petersburg Car Chase (Over a F'in Slurpee) | Nothing in a 7-Eleven is worth a human life | TD Editorial | Father speaks out | 2 crash victims named | Family Faults Police
Suspect flees from screaming woman in Midlothian Walgreen's parking lot
Women used $800 in fake travelers checks at Hanover business (pictures)
Naked Man Arrested
Suffolk farmer found guilty of animal cruelty
Victims tell how they got ripped off at Auto Repair
Michael Vick dogfighting co-defendant in court | More Vick
Three Charged In Catalytic Converter Thefts in Mechanicsville | Three Arrested In Catalytic Converter Thefts in Colonial Heights
Good Policing...
Richmond police get guilty plea in February slaying
Colonial Heights Middle School teacher found guilty of sex with minor | Senor Brenes

July 14 to July 20, 2008

Business owners assess damage from fire | Investigators looking for cause | Video
Cristobal Weather Blog
First Debate:
Jim Gilmore vs Mark Warner
Ding-Ding...
-AP
-Daily Press
-Daily Progress
-Free Lance-Star
-NBC12
-NBC29
-News Leader
-Roanoke Times
-Times Dispatch (Teaser)
-Virginia Pilot
-Washington Post (Teaser)
-Washington Times
-WCAV

Celebrity Wars
-Mark Warner
Madeleine K. Albright,John Grisham, Bruce Hornsby, Carl Icahn, Robert Iger, Norman Lear, Bette Midler, Steven Spielberg, Ralph Stanley, Barbra Streisand
-Jim Gilmore
Ben Crenshaw, Jimmy Dean, Don Blankenship, William Goodwin Jr, Bruce and Floyd Gottwald, Ruble Hord, T. Boone Pickens, Roger Staubach

Coverage: CBS6 (Streaming Video) | 8News | NBC12

Early activists for civil rights to be honored with memorial | Statue a first for Virginia: Monument will bring some racial parity to Capitol Square | AP

A key moment in the struggle | It Is Time

County Seeks to Heal Racial Wounds

Civil rights symposium focused on public education

Barbara Johns, Leader of protest has firm place in history

NY Times: The Next Kind of Integration

The Crupi Report: Three Paths for Change
Roanoke Times' Pulitzer Play: Age of Uncertainty
A rural wife pushes herself to the limit to help her disabled husband
Style Cover: In the region�s big land grab, property owners are discovering that when it comes to protecting their land, there are other forces at play
The Downtown Plan: Fourth Down. Will They Punt? | The Master Plan
Vote Yes | Memo to Planning Commission: Stop Dicking Around!

Jackson Ward Black business owners speak out on Downtown Master Plan
Richmond Activism
-Town Hall Event Looks Beyond Obama on 7/22
-Richmonders to rally outside Richmond Times-Dispatch and demand �Stop the warmongering! No War on Iran!� Saturday, July 26, at 1 p.m.

Rasmussen Poll: Obama, McCain Tied at 44% Each, But Nearly Half Have Unfavorable View of Democrat

More young Virginians are registering, but will they vote?

The Bob Barr Effect

Obama to open 20 offices in bid to win Virginia 1208 W. Marshall Street Richmond, VA 23220 | 23 W. Old Street Petersburg, VA 23803 (More Information) | Washington Post | Petersburg Update

It's Official. Virginia Is In Play | New Virginia Bumper Sticker

If it's good enough for Obama...

Business Rankings:
-Virginia Ranked No. 2 in U.S. for Business by CNBC
-Forbes ranks Greater Richmond #7

Recession is near shop local | Queen of Rumors
Active Gray Matter Active Gray Matter is a community business incubator designed for people with disabilities and/or chronic illnesses

Never Give Up: fund-raising challenges and the Venture Forum
City Cleaning Up Vacant Lots in Church Hill
Mount Moriah Baptist Church is a tiny church with a long history -- that started with slaves who broke the law by learning to read
Learning from Savannah, Ga.
Notes from the Richmond Crusade for Voters School Board Candidates Forum
Richmond School Board candidates preach change

School Board Soapbox

Carol A.O. Wolf: Are Our Schools Better Off Today? Where Do We Go From Here?

Welcome to Richmond (Candidate speaks)...Insults constituents?
Free Press Editor Ray Boone Accuses Ukrop�s of Racial Bias | See Ad (pg 9, time sensitive)
Warner Has Cash Lead In Virginia Senate Race
Gilmore vs. Warner
Catholic diocese to close Richmond community center
No charges will be filed in Catholic Charities teen abortion case | NY Times | Catholic News Agency

Rewind
Blue Ridge Outdoors Series on Coal Mining
-Faces of Coal
-Keeper of the Mountains
-Clean Coal: What a Load
-The Greenies
Charlotte police chief plans big shake-up | New police chief addresses crime
Rodney Monroe shaking up Charlotte department
VCU Dean Involved In Degree Investigation Leaving His Position
More Rodney Monroe
In Bev Gardens (Add a Belgium section to the park?) | Cry in Your Beer
Impact on Loveland and Brown Distribution Companies?

Can InBev sell Anheuser-Busch theme parks? Dan Snyder, maybe? | Who�s in play to buy Busch parks?

Ticket tax eyed on Busch Gardens

Will brewer's philanthropy go flat?

Instability Likely For Anheuser-Busch? (audio)

What does this mean for Anheuser-Busch's distribution deal with Starr Hill?

Community on Edge
The mastermind behind Delirium Tremens and other sinister brews talks about how Belgians do beer better
Style Weekly/17th Street Market brouhaha (Who's up for a challenge?) | Thank you 17th Street Supporters! | Flashpoint article: Pie-Eyed in the Southside
Eat, drink and be healthy | Come and Taste the Cultural Flavor

Rewind: Why does the Farmer�s Market suck?
In the next few weeks, we hope to announce a new win-win for Richmond's ad-hoc, informal weblog community and for the mainstream (media) | Are Newspapers Blogger Friendly?

New Virginia Pilot Video Project Gets It! (ie, community vlogger participation)

Secrets of Tech massacre stay hidden | Reporters Dig Deep Into Tech Massacre | Don't Stonewall | Rewind: One Year Later
Cost and design bugs could sink new destroyer program
US News and World Reports: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Tim Kaine
COFFEE DRAMA IN VIRGINIA!
Jeff Simmermon (Murky Coffee, Arlington: Hold That Espresso Between Your Knees)
VERSUS
Murky Coffee (Open Letter to Jeff Simmermon | Update)

In the Media
-Washington Post: Espresso, Extra Bitter
-Boing Boing
-DCist
-Consumerist: Coffee-Shop Threatens To "Punch" Customer In His "Dick"

...In other Coffee News...
-Peninsula Starbucks at Power Plant, Patrick Henry to close
-None in Richmond

NASA astronaut to serve as 2008-09 leader-in-residence at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies | The Passionate Curiosity of Leland Melvin
Chesterfield is 15 percent more affluent than Henrico County
Academic Freedom in the Spotlight | VINDICATED
VCU holds forum on its research ties

VCU panel questioned about Philip Morris deals

VCU President Recuperates from Heart Bypass Surgery at one of America�s Best Hospitals | Audio | TD

Close to Discharge

Caused by stress from cigarettes?
Nautical Stuff
-26-year-old, along with a cousin and two buddies, will set sail this fall on a five-year trip around the world
-Police sweep of crab harvest nets dozens of violations
Lots of Green Stories This Week
Hook Cover: Single streamin', comminglin': Whatever it's called, it's tasty, less (land) filling | Private sector recycling machine?
Kermit the Frog Notwithstanding, It Is Easy Being Green

School District Eyes Four Day School Week in Bid to Cut Energy Costs

Green Roofs

Albemarle's green roof becoming a destination
Virginia Leaders in the "Green" Revolution
ABC Goes Green
GRTC Bus Cuts | Bus-route plan assailed

It's SRO on the GRTC
All reports of Save Richmond�s retirement have been greatly exaggerated
Downtown Development
-A Tale of Two Broad Streets | Dingiest Retail Corridor
-15-story Williams Mullen office tower proposed downtown | "Traditional Landmark" Proposed Downtown | Picture
Papers v Blogs Part 2 (Part 1)
Roanoke Times: Bloggers on the take | Duh�..Me noT L!ke bLogs
Roanoke Times �Discovers� Blogging and Is Scared
Goochland News...
-High Speed Broadband in Goochland? Gazette | Courier
-Fairground building on the block
Richmond flea market vendors say manager gouged them
Richmond Real Estate Sales MTM and YTD Comparisons �07 & �08
Richmond's Finest: I can ride my bike with no handlebars
We need a scorecard to track Richmond's progress

New Style Weekly Beta via B&M and Style

Buttermilk and Molasses on Power List 1 | 2 | 3

Real Estate Developments...
Former Jackson Ward school (Booker T. Washington, 21 East Leigh) to be converted into senior homes
Building Boom Along Route 36/I-295 (Bojangles Returns to Richmond...Huzzah!) | Glutton Opines
Efforts to slow development in Chesterfield
Issues with Revitalizing the Richmond Real Estate Market
Richmond Starbucks Safe...for now | Starbucks Rewind
Coming to Short Pump (West Broad Village Community) | No Tract Is an Island | Grocery Wars Update Whole Foods Market (Help Wanted), Trader Joe's, Books-a-Million, REI, hotel, HomeGoods?, McCormick & Schmick's, Kona Grill
UVa seeks to curb alcohol, substance abuse
Virginia Yeti
We know your legend is real!
Outdoors Stuff
-Catching Smallies in Richmond
-Appalachian Trail rescue team helps keep mountains safe
Gwinnett Braves News
Baseball teams line up to play in Richmond | Richmond shows it's undeserving of baseball team | Bruce Baldwin, has been getting a free pass when blame gets assigned for how it came to pass

Bidding War for the Nation's 43rd Largest (and growing) market?
Rumored Teams
-Erie SeaWolves (Detroit Tigers AA)
-Connecticut (Norwich) Defenders (San Francisco AA)

Gwinnett County Braves ballpark preview

-Charlottesville Flirtresses Flirt gets a little more flirtatious
-Model marketing: Business hopes �Flirtresses� steal the show at parties
-Richmond Casting Call CW Richmond will select 10 contestants to compete on-line as "Richmond's Choice for Top Model"
-43 women anxiously auditioned in Roanoke for 'America's Next Top Model'
The 48 Hour Film Project
-Local Filmmakers Prepare for 48 Hour Film Project
VA-Filmed "John Adams" Snags 26 Emmy Nominations
�My Greater Richmond� Photography Contest Launches (Official Website) via Near West End News
First Ballerina Painting By Edgar Degas Now On View at VMFA
Festival for Jonny Z
Scary Manchester Story?
Missing Monsters | Website
Foodie Stuff
-Columnist finds work at Richmond Subway to be unpleasant
-Save Bill's Hot Dogs
-Richmond's Most Safest Restaurants?
-Latest Richmond Wine Stock
The most wickedly awesome, ultra high-performance PCs on the planet
-$6,000 Overdrive PCs Made in Richmond!
Bassmaster series returns to Smith Mountain Lake
Cville Stuff...
-Richmond's Topeka Steakhouse Expands to Charlottesville
-Richmond's Si Expands to Charlottesville | Cvillain
-Jefferson Theater seeks to return to musical roots
Virginia BBQ Cooking Oil Powers Fredericksburg Commuter
Bumper Virginia Peach Crop | Bumper Tomato Crop Too
Historic coffee shop to be rebuilt in Colonial Williamsburg
Hampton Roads baking dream team to invade Richmond?
Richmond Car Washes Rejoice! Richmond Mosquitoes be Very Afraid! The Purple Martins have Returned
-RETROSPECTIVES: Festival Recap | Wholly Writ: Purple (Martin) Haze | Fairfax Birding: Purple Martins in Richmond
-North Richmond News
-River City Rapids
-River District News
-Times Dispatch
Braves Dragging on Diamond Lease Purple Martins (see above) wouldn't be a bad name for a new team...
These pit bulls are not famous, but they still need homes | Rewind: Michael Vick's Dogs
Tropical Storm Bertha swells risk of riptides along East Coast
Vineyard Management Class at PVCC
The Bopst Show - Episode 13
My Son, the Blogger: An M.D. Trades Medicine for Apple Rumors
Richmond Nephrologist To Mac Blogger: The Unlikely Career Path Of MacRumors' Arnold Kim | I Quit My Job
-MacRumors
-Touch Arcade iPhone games

Jesus Phone Day in Virginia
-iPhone demand is high Short Pump store sees long line for new model; area AT&T stores sell out
-The road to the Iphone 3G
-Photo Gallery
-iPhone Day in Charlottesville

Charlottesville Developer Graffitio's Application Selected for Apple iPhone App Store Launch | Graffitio

Richmond killer is found insane | Out of Ideas, Out of Hope
Rodis in court accused of stealing from two churches
Another Sign of the Apocalypse: Tire-rim dispute may have led to shooting
Time Flies: One Year Anniversary of Indictment
-Falcons� never-ending season began above London | Timeline
-Vick's case is a major cautionary tale

Bankruptcy Update
-Vick seeks extension, adviser for bankruptcy
-Michael Vick participates in bankruptcy hearing by phone from prison
-Vick can't pay with Mercedes, IRS says
Doggie Update
-A second chance for Vick's dogs

More Vick Stories
Man Arrested for Flashing Hotel Maid and her Boss at the Glen Allen Wyndham
2 charged in $132 million investment scheme arraigned
Teen shaken by abduction attempt | Abduction Investigation
Everyone just needs to take a step back and take a deep breath
Juvenile shooting suspect Joseph Parrish faces new charges
More Taliaferro Stories
We hope for the death penalty | 250 percent increase in area's rate of violent crime over past 20 years in Fredericksburg | Rewind
Hanover man faces charges for stealing mail
Stealin' My Stuff - Blog Hijackers
Man pleads guilty to robbing store that had fired him the same day
Is notorious strip-club owner Sam Moore becoming a folk hero?
Suspects Sought In Two Chesterfield Robberies
Man who used machete in attack pleads guilty
Skeletal remains identified as 15-year-old murder suspect
Jury trial sought in slaying of immigrant
The owner of Pierce's Pitt Bar-B-Que lost his home next door in an apparent arson
Stafford County Jury recommends 86 years for Internet predator
Woodson pleads guilty in Waynesboro shootings

July 7 to July 13, 2008

Wilder announced today that Barack Obama's presidential campaign is launching an effort to register 151,000 new voters in Virginia | Launches in Charlottesville | Challenges Voters | Can You Best Barack

Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball's First Look at November's Electoral College

CBS6's Stephanie Rochon One on One with Sen. Obama

Interns taking politics to the streets

Va. presidential race a toss-up for a change

GOP stalwart Eric Cantor looks beyond partisanship
Anita Hartke betting on Democratic surge in the 7th?!
Richmond Man recounts 12-hour swim to N.C. shore after kayak tipped Rested on crab pot buoys and ate algae
Minding his own business: Northern Neck kayak fishing
Boss Hogg Politics
Gee, this Could Never Happen in Richmond or the Surrounding Counties...�
Police Probe Colonial Beach School Board Finances
Shakes rural Gloucester County | `Gloucester 'hijacked': The report said the supervisors "crossed the line into criminality in several respects." | What's next for Gloucester? | Still Working
Wilder attacks would-be successors (Dwight Jones and William Pantele)
-Enough is enough!
-Richmond's Next Mayor: He's Not Heavy, He's Just Wilder
-More Stories
Warner tried to spread the wealth; But venture funds failed; management, timing cited
Coalition will sue plant | Power plant opponents plan court battle
The Latest Salvos in the Energy War
-Southern Environmental Law Center
-Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards

More Dominion-Wise Stories
Fox's Feral Feline Fiasco - Or Why Sinclair Broadcasting Sucks
Fox in the cathouse

The Wrath of the Cat Defender

Pet Psychic Talks to Fox�s Feral Kitties

Wrangling Richmond's Wild | Heated Discussion

Don't Feed the Cats

Cat Rescue Efforts Continue at Local Television Station

SPCA Updates

More Fox35 Feral Cat Stories
In Pursuit of the Golden Leaf | VCU and Tobacco: A Long and Profitable History
Richmond.com Tries Its Hand at Investigative Journalism VCU,

Virginia Tech and Big Tobacco Research

Reports: VCU�s Trani linked to Philip Morris and blah, blah, blah whatever

Rewind: VCU Tobacco Stories
Baptist church welcomes the Norfolk 17 home
Black students helped end 'Massive Resistance'
A Struggle to stay afloat for Virginia Watermen
Richmond's Space Cowboys Write Again | Boomer Life: Return of the Columnists Randy Fitzgerald, Bill Millsaps, Betty Booker, Ray McAllister, Steve Clark
NBC12 Anchor Gene Cox: Try though I did, I could not stop laughing | Video
Monkey Found

Monkey Bites Girl at Dogwood Dell

Did Carytown Monkey Bite Girl At Byrd Park? | Photo of July 4th monkey attack? | Rewind: Carytown Monkey
Nathan Burrell -- The Man Behind Our Amazing Trails
Also see
-Richmond Area Mid-Atlantic Off-road Enthusiasts (RAMORE)
-James River Outdoor Coalition
City seeks protection for James River Park
Bridges Raised and Fallen
Join the Friends of the James River Parks Starting at $15
Political Firebrands in the RVA

Reverend Jeremiah Wright
-Faith overcomes facts | NBC | CBS6 | WRVA
-Black Theology

Ralph Nader
-Just Another Interview
-Wants your money and signature | AP
-Richmond Green Question for Nader
-Ralph Nader Speaks in Charlottesville | Talks issues he feels Obama, McCain are neglecting Twice as Many People Show Up Compared to Richmond
-Ralph Nader Coming To Richmond
-Wilder: Perennial candidate Nader is irrelevant
There's fewer cars on the road in VA Beach. Thank high gas prices (down 3.1%)
Pro-war 'Vets for Freedom' ads roll out in Hampton Roads
2 charged in scheme to defraud investors of $132 million
She talked a good game. Now, investors' millions are gone

Man Swindles SunTrust Bank to Join Kinloch

Virginia Woman Indicted in $132 Million Scheme to Defraud Clients of Funds Allegedly Held in Trust

Henrico man guilty in mortgage scam
Happy Birthday Arthur Ashe
Newspapers vs. blogs
-Tiny robot has lessons for media - and citizens
-Newspapers: �Woe is me�
-The Virginian Pilot v. Virginia Bloggers
A look at 143 years of Progress-Index history

Pay more, get less
Circuit City's Salvation: Bankruptcy Court?
Prosecution of charity ruled out in abortion case | ...or not
American Spectator: What Happened in Richmond?

Rewind: Catholic Charities
Virginia CSI: Understanding crash reconstructions
Kids Put Lipstick on a Pig
A Marketing Master Stroke at Geico: Recognizing the Genius of a Gecko | America's Most-Loved Spokescreatures
The Downtown Plan: One Hearing That Didn't Go Extra Innings | Minor changes sought in city plan | Hearing the Plan | Our Time: Richmond has plans and priorities; now it must find the will to act
Jack Rants About Richmond Social Issues

Copies of Downtown Plan found laying on floors of City Hall men�s bathrooms

The Downtown Plan: Flynn Weighs Back In | The Downtown Plan: Comments Deserving Comment
No V-P Bid For Webb | Rewind: Jim Webb Getting Nationally Vetted
Will Gov. Tim Kaine receive the nod
Media General Consolidates Virginia Dailies' Printing (The Daily Progress and Times-Dispatch)
Black Sheep
The New "It" Restaurant
-in vino veritas: black sheep
-Richmond.com: Black Sheep
-Richmond, Food for Thought: The Black Sheep
-Style: The Black Sheep
-Times Dispatch: Black Sheep
-ALL REVIEWS
The National Music Reviews
-Ani Difranco
-Weird Al
-Denali (new song: Church Hill Bricks)
Ministry reaches out to strippers
Teaching the bible in public school?
Whom do you turn to when a dead deer winds up in your yard? Not the government
Richmond musician writes lyrics, sings for MTV series | From G's to Gents
Richmonder David Robbins' latest novel "The Betrayal Game"
A Day In The Life Of A Richmond Used Bookstore Book Room 5458 W Broad St
Saving Michael Vick's Dogs

Beamer believes Vick can still turn it around

Pit bulls: vicious or victims?

National Geographic Channel's Dogtown Returns With Season Premiere Following the Rehabilitation of the Michael Vick Dogs, Friday, September 5, at 9 p.m. ET
-Dogtown, the nation�s largest no-kill shelter
-More Evidence That People Like to Watch Poignant Shows About Cute Dogs
-His name is Hector. He was Michael Vick's.
-Vick dog, true to her name, was a sweetie
-Shamed Dog Fight Footballer Michael Vick�s Dogs Get Their Own TV Show

Michael Vick files for bankruptcy
-PDF Court Documents (AJC)
-Times Dispatch | Finances in Disarray | Vick's woes too big for credit counselor to solve
-Atlanta Journal Constitution | Hey Mike, where�s the money? | Special Vick Section
-Bloomberg
-Daily Press | Owes Agent Big Sum
-The Globe and Mail
-Ledger Inquirer
-Reuters
-Roanoke Times
-USA Today
-Virginia Pilot
Bloggers
-Bret Burquest
-Jarrett Carter
Rewind: How Mike Vick Got into Dogfighting
Roanoke Mall Rats
Slinging Bling: car accessory shops gotta diversify
Extreme Code Violations: Blacksburg dance studio's "Extreme Makeover" causes closure

Rockingham residents� lives better off after World Changers come to town

Style Gawker: Bruce Hornsby Shopping at La Diff
Woman mulls rabies shots after scrape by wolf hybrid
The Charlottesville Cougar | Rewind: The elusive Crozet Cougar
The Richmond Vampire: An Urban Legend
In Memoriam: Liz Marks | TVJerry | Shann Palmer | Style | Times Dispatch Obit
Word & Image: James Roosevelt Brooks, Homeless, 56
Rediscovering Richmond: Paradise Hill
Our city is known for three things�
1. Avail is from here.
2. It is really, really hot.
3. It�s a bad place for Black people to live.
Residents enjoying local restaurant�s new Fire Bar
Richmond Food Carts (Video)
Bopst Show 12

Tahliek Taliaferro Update
-Teen murder suspect�s family receiving threats
-Second shooting victim (Courtney Jones) now home
-Powhatan Grieves as One
-More Stories
Skeletal remains identified as 15-year-old murder suspect
Slayings drop in central Va. in '08 | Database
Chesterfield Murder Rate Up 266%!
Deja Vu Crime
-CVS Near Willow Lawn Robbed Twice
-Second Ntelos Store Robbed in Chesterfield
Inmates letters of complaint increase against the city jail
CBS 6 Investigates: Southside Apartment Complaints
Three Charged in Plot to Kill VA Beach Detectives
Woman assaulted near University of Mary Washington track
90-year-old robbed four times in Roanoke
"I'm a Professional Informant"
What Is Going On?
Dawson: First sleepover turned to drunken shooting spree on I-64 | Wracked by Guilt
Suspect Arrested In Belle Isle Attack | Prior Convictions
Woman reports rape on Belle Isle | Police to beef up Belle Isle patrols after rape report
Does Charlottesville have a gang problem?
Thomas Dale student pleads guilty in text-threats case
Ding-Dong, World's Most Dangerous Profession
-'a nice, quiet person' | When tragedy strikes

-Caution heightened for food delivery
-For delivery drivers, instinct best guide
Louisa CSI In Overdrive Catching Predators | Henrico Predator Arrested In Louisa
Va. man wanted for allegedly flashing child
The Most Dangerous Swimming Pool in the World
-Police meet with Fulton Hill Residents
-Speedo Shooter Captured
-Another shooting today near Fulton pool
-Powhatan Hill Community Center Swimming Pool Shooting | TD
AWOL Soldier Arrested in Bank Robbery
Armed robbery today at the Carpenter Center
Couple in court charged with stealing purses

June 30 to July 6, 2008

The Food Supply
-Local Produce In Demand
-Salmonella Scare Impact On Hanover Tomato Festival | Hanover Tomato Festival Goes Worldwide!! | Recap (Senate candidates work the tomato festival)
-IS YOUR MEAT SAFE TO EAT??? Benefits of Locally Grown, Grass-fed Meats Monday, July 21st, 2008 5:30-7:30pm
-Kroger Ground Beef Recall
-Earthlings and Food Security on Oregon Hill

Chesterfield lawyer Prescott L. Prince defends the alleged 9/11 planner
Business-school test maker (GMAT) seeks Web cheaters
GMAT Scandal Has MBA Students Sweating

GMAT Cheating Scandal Starts A Frenzy

Darden's Dean Robert Bruner Responds
Charges Filed in Fox Richmond Feral Cat Colony Case | ...charged with animal cruelty
-Rewind: WRLH35 Cat Incident
Curbside Gridlock; Parking district issue strikes much-needed balance
The God Zone: They�re above zoning laws and scare the bejesus out of politicians. But is it time to rein in megachurches?
Rewind Outreach Magazine:
100 Largest Churches in the United States
#8 Thomas Road Baptist Church Lynchburg VA (Jonathan Falwell, 17,445 members)
#27 McLean Bible Church McLean VA (Lon Solomon, 10,500 members)
#54 Faith Landmarks Ministries Richmond VA (Randy and Cherie Gilbert, 8,000 members)
#79 Calvary Revival Church Norfolk VA (B. Courtney McBath, 7,000 members)
#99 The Saint Paul�s Baptist Church Richmond VA (Lance Watson, 6,488 members)

The next big Richmond ones...
-Trinity Baptist Church 4,000 members
-Bon Air Baptist Church (Travis Collins, 2,500 members)
-West End Assembly of God Church 1,950 members
source: Hartford Institute
100 Fastest Growing US Churches
#5 the ROC (Richmond Outreach Center) Richmond VA (Geronimo Aguilar)--Also see CBN: ROC�ing Richmond
#42 Liberty Baptist Church Hampton VA (Grant Ethridge)
#67 The Saint Paul �s Baptist Church Richmond VA (Lance Watson)

Study Background | Press Release
Awful Timing: It's VCU Day!!!
Trani orders review of policies (Official Statement)

VCU's prez under fire

VCU, Trani are a lot like school mascot
-Rewind Philip Morris
-Rewind Rodney Monroe

Update: VCU takes personnel actions in degree case July 11 (VCU takes action on Monroe degree matter) | Summa cum laude | CBS6 | Times Dispatch | WRVA Audio | Charlotte Observer

VCU Allows Improperly Awarded Degree
Shootings in Richmond Virginia (January to June)--Pretty Even Distribution
Sprawl News:
-James River marina project is proposed in Chesterfield
-Despite Concerns, 193 unit Wyndham Expansion Approved
-Chester Group Concerned About Major Road Design
Dubya in Monticello
-Cville: Addressing new citizens and a handful of protestors at Monticello, Bush endorses free speech
-Hook: New citizens and prez celebrate 4th
-Speech Transcript
PROTEST
-TD: Protesters disrupt Monticello service
-Daily Progress: 100-plus give a lesson in free speech
-Daily Progress: Presidential embrace
-WRVA: President Attends Monticello Naturalization Ceremony, Protestors Interupt Ceremony; Six People Escorted Off Mountain
-Cville: Smattering of protestors greet Bush
Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Henry And The Sovereignty Of The People
Faye Prichard Re-Elected as Mayor of the Center of the Universe
Why didn't I think of that...Man paddled kayak to tend marijuana patch
Region must expand mass transit system
Times Dispatch in Trouble... Style Weekly, too... | Clarification: Style "Not in Trouble"
Style's Long Overdue Electronic Upgrade

Los Angeles Times, too

Rewind Bryan Steps Down
NY Times: Aid for Abortion Creates Stir in Virginia

Washington Post: Va. Bishop Apologizes

USA Today: Catholic bishop apologizes for abortion mixup

Bishop DiLorenzo forbade charity�s assistance in girl�s abortion, diocese says

The Wanderer Followup: The Bureaucracy Blind-Sides The Bishops | Catholic News Service | TD | WRVA | Guardian in London, England picks up AP Story

Bishop knew of abortion plan

The abortion and the bishop

Rewind: Richmond Catholic Charities Story

Approximately 600 Underperforming Starbucks will be Closed | Which Richmond ones? | Why Starbucks got dunked
One Year Ed Ayers (Wikipedia) Retrospective
-Conversation with new UofR President Edward Ayers
-The past (and future) according to Ed Ayers
-Ed Ayers has successful first year at U. of Richmond
-Rewind: Black Doll Story
-More Rewind: Why IT Has Not Paid Off As Hoped (Yet)
Richmond Gentrification:
Housing increases come to Manchester | ...racist and poorly written piece
NY Times uses a Richmond Picture to Describe the Gloomy Economy | Virginia Seasonally Unadjusted Unemployment Rate Up to 3.8 Percent in May 2008 | Job and Weave? Surveys Duel Over Market Forecast
Blockbuster withdraws proposal to acquire Circuit City because of market conditions | Is Circuit City Headed for a Blowout? | Rewind
American-Indian group take the Longest Walk along Jefferson-Davis Highway
Does Carytown have a vacancy problem? | R'biz | Carytown: Yesterday, Today, & Tomorrow | Rewind: EQ bolts Carytown
July 1, 2008 Laws:
-Silly Laws
-Revised law affects strip clubs
-16 Year Olds Can Give Blood
-Salvia Divinoru OUTLAWED
-More: Sangria and Sunday ABC

Nuclear and Coal Burning
Versus
Double Digit Power Rate Inflation
13 protesters of Wise Coal Plant Arrested at Dominion HQ
-Protestor Group's Blog (Blue Ridge Earth First)
-MSM: Daily Press | NBC12 | Richmond.com | Times Dispatch | Virginian Pilot | WRIC8 | WRVA
-Blogs: Caramelized OpiNIONS | It's Getting Hot In Here `| Urban Hayride
-And finally, Stuck in cement, Dominion protestors left for dead
Trial Date Set | Jail Time for the 'Tredegar 12'? | Turn, Turn, Turn
Dominion Virginia Power is "trying very hard" to build a third nuclear reactor at its North Anna Power Station | CNBC Video | Richmond.com reaction | Bacon's Rebellion reaction | AP Story | Free Lance Star
Rewind Wired Cover: Inconvenient Truths: Get Ready to Rethink What It Means to Be Green

Virginia Business Feature
-A nuclear renaissance
-Fueling the future

Dominion Rate Hike Approved
Regional group names advisory team
-Future Website
-The Crupi Report: Ready, Set, Collaborate
-Rewind: New Partnership, Same Conversation? Let's Hope Not
Breaking Pierce's BBQ News!!
Richmond Bartender, an American Patriot | Do Yourself A Solid, Go Out On Sunday Nights
At Passion Parties, You Can Buy Dildos
Richmond Staycation Series
-Weekend Road Trip: Richmond, Virginia�s Hollywood Cemetery (nice photos)
-A trip to Richmond offers culture and cool shops and a glance back at Virginia's past
-Richmond's St. John's Church: A prelude to liberty
-Virginia: Fields of the Civil War
-1864 map of Richmond
-More Staycations
Out of Towner Disses the Diamond (yeah, we know) | ...I felt I had to say at least one nice thing
Denali Reunion | Brick Preview
Notes from the Generational Divide: Or, How I Learned to Love Facebook
Richmond.com staffers offer their picks for Richmond's best dining options
Couple seek to build drive-in theater in Goochland
First Walk ~~Friday~~ Thursday | Art Showings
Dave Matthews Band saxophonist LeRoi Moore seriously injured   | DMB�s Moore remains in hospital, will miss rest of tour | Leroi watch
DMB�s Moore re-admitted to hospital
Are Roofies Hitting Charlottesville?
Tobacco Avenue & Jack Goes Forth Goodness...
-I am totally the William Baldwin in �Backdraft� of the Chesterfield County Fire Department
-That Old Guy spotted twice in one night at Fan bars
-Jim Duncan Can Bench Press More Than You
Archaeologists find Washington's Va. boyhood home
Richmond among Sweatiest Cities in America | Old Spice
New VCU Art Gallery (in the First Friday District! SE corner of West Cary & Jefferson)
-VCU Art School to Build Second Art Gallery
-VCU plans new gallery east of Belvidere
Two Kinds of Libraries...
-Area localities find renewed interest in libraries
-Archiving Anarchy: No Late Fees at Flying Brick
James River Panaroma Neat!
Read, Drink, & Be Merry Looks Under The Blogger Microscope: Can-Can & Tarrantino's
-Can Can Reviews
-Tarrantino's Reviews
Bopst Show Episode 11
Relic hunter will only face 1 charge at trial
Hermitage High's Queen Harrison is Fast | NY Times article

More Local Olympic Hopefuls (BMX)

West End Shooting (Nottingham Green (Complex formerly known as Camelot, 9300 block of Gallant Drive, just off of Quiocassin Road)
-8News
-NBC12
-Times Dispatch
Area Men Nabbed in Beer Bust
Another football player: Arrest Made In Murder of VSU Football Recruit
Sigh
Richmond Police Investigate Triple Shooting-- Three teens...
Are RCJ inmates being treated with decency?
Migra Raids Nab Gang Members in Richmond | BLACK VELVET BRUCE LI Commentary
LIEK
Powhatan residents try to understand loss | Despair | Trying to find hope after teen�s senseless death | In remembrance

Questions remain | Joey Parrish Claims that he's not the shooter (via lawyer) | Lawyer: The media and public should avoid speculation | Audio

One teen laid to rest, another held for his death, Taliaferro Fund (Central Virginia Bank, 403-2070) | NBC12 | WRIC8 | Gone But Not Forgotten

More Details (Chase from Sheetz, 17 yr old Joey Parrish the alleged gunman): WRVA | Times Dispatch

Behind Bars
source: Powhatan Today
Joey Parrish, Ethan Scott Parish, Stephanie Reynolds
Also see TD Coverage | TV8 | WRVA | Powhatan Today