On tap for February 5, 2009

This week we will be joined by Jeff Frederick, a member of the House of Delegates in the Virginia General Assembly, representing the 52nd district.  He is also the Chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia. http://www.va52.com/about.asp

Think Planning has to stay ‘in the box’ and have a strangle hold on individual rights? Mark Hinshaw has a proposition for Americans: Come out of your bunker, throw open the gate, and meet the neighborhood. True Urbanism, his passionate and highly readable appeal for re-engagement with city life, celebrates the growing number of people who reject sterile, paint-by-numbers subdivisions in favor of rich, vibrant, and often unpredictable urban neighborhoods.

Mark L. Hinshaw FAIA, FAICP (BArch University of Oklahoma ’70, MUP Hunter College/CUNY ’72) has had an influential career spanning architecture, planning, and journalism. His election to the AIA College of Fellows in 1994 recognized the unique professional fusion that had made him effective as Bellevue’s City Architect during the formative decade of his tenure there.

Now let’s talk a little about Government power at it’s worse.  Our next guests will be Jeff Benedict author of the new book ‘Little Pink House’ and Susette Kelo of the Supreme court case Kelo v New London.  They will share the story of what happened when the City of New London decided that they could get more taxes from a parcel if they seized it by eminent domain and sold it to a developer.  Hmm, so if your town needs more taxes they can seize your $200,000.00 home  to sell your property to a developer that wants to erect a $500,000.00 home so they can collect more taxes??  What’s that you say?? You don’t think that could happen in Virginia?  There is a Senate and House bill PENDING RIGHT NOW in Virginia that would facilitate this type of ‘taking’!   HB1671 and SB1094

Want to hear from a respected professor from one of our own great universities about Global Warming? Next on deck will be Patrick J. Michaels a Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies he is a research professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia and visiting scientist with the Marshall Institute in Washington, D.C. He is a past president of the American Association of State Climatologists and was program chair for the Committee on Applied Climatology of the American Meteorological Society. Michaels is a contributing author and reviewer of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Capitol Hill Briefings:
“What to Do about Climate Change,” February 29, 2008 [Capitol Hill Briefing]“Global Warming: Some Convenient Facts,” May 7, 2007 [Capitol Hill Briefing]

Ok,  we may have a few more guests in between – don’t miss a minute ~ join us 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. this Thursday for “Melody Scalley ~ On the Edge of the Shore!”

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