Yesterday, Virginia Republicans revealed their redistricting plan, which carves Albemarle County into no less than four House of Delegates districts. Southern Albemarle County ends up, bizarrely, in the district of Delegate Watkins Abbitt, from Appomattox. (I couldn’t pick out Appomattox on a map.) Crozet, equally strangely, is in the district of Steve Landes, from Weyers Cave. The Progress quotes the never-shy Mitch Van Yahres as saying of the plan, “It is idiotic. It is just ridiculous.” Emily Couric asks, “Does that mean Steve Landes is going to come to Albemarle Board of Supervisors meetings and become active in Albemarle County?” I’m guessing that he’s not.
Sideblog
- Downtown tarot card reader Ed Rowe passed away on NYE; a memorial service will be held Wed. 01/07 from 5-8PM at Twisted Branch. #
- The DP illustrates a 30% drop in UVa's endowment with a graph that gets 58% smaller. Not a lot of statisticians go into the news biz, I guess. #
- There's an E85 station in Albemarle now. #
- Urban Outfitters to open up in the old Hardware Store. Ugh. The very worst of Old Town Alexandria, right here in C'ville. #
- Wistar and Darren's spider on frog on turtle photo keeps getting more famous. #
- Trish took some photos of an albino deer, or perhaps a piebald deer. In either case, it's an awfully rare thing and, incidentally, perfectly legal to hunt in VA. #
- David Maurer provides the address of some of the best Christmas lights around town, and I mapped them. In a nutshell, it's all about Meade, Holmes, and Agnese. Update: The DP mapped them, too. #
- Google Maps now provides CTS routes, complete with fare prices and scheduling. This is so cool! #
- The Downtown Mall overhaul might come in under budget, thanks to the lousy economy. #
- DMB is playing the JPJ in April. #
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