- 05/10/01 - City erects illegal billboard
on Mount Trashmore...
VNS gets it down in one day...see telephone/activity log...
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6/4/01 - Carter Family Fold - the place where country music was born
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6/05/01 - Spore's record of combating citizen
dissent
- 6/4/01 - Court hears testimony that city illegally destroyed documents
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06/05/01 - Virginia Beach Police conduct political spying on law abiding
citizens opposed to $55 million tank to house captive dolphins...
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06/11/01 - School Supt. Tim Jenney hires
Jeanne Evans in $80,000/yr job; only has
high school diploma ... refuses to explain
why...
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06/13/01 - Council looks out for pubic violations
with new hole-in-one ordinance
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06/19/01 - VB closes Stumpy Lake deal for $13 million -
$2.8 million to
developer Eddie Garcia
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06/19/01 - Personal income in city goes
down as City Council hikes fees/taxes
- reducing disposal income even more
- 7/10/01 - Virginia Beach's Shadow Government controls
city, no regard for public
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07/12/01 - The best government money can buy - council campaign finance
statistics
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7/23/01 - Councilman Branch
admits business, financial relationship
with 31st St. hotel developers
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7/23/01 - City attorney rules Branch's relationship with developers OK
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7/23/01 - VNS interviews Branch's empty chair after councilman runs and hides
from questions
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7/23/01 - Letter - Reader knows why Councilman Branch is missing for questioning
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7/23/01 - Letter - Tidewater needs tax revolt to get politicians' attention
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7/27/01 - Special Report - The Pentagon Project, most complex construction project in
recent history
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7/30/01 - Commonwealth's Atty. asked to have grand jury investigate
Councilman Branch's financial shenanigans
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7/30/01 - Text of letter calling for grand jury investigation of Councilman
Branch
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7/30/01 - Letter - Rowe, dirtball journalist
- 8/6/01 - Bluegrass, the real sound of country music
- 8/20/01 - Questions Tim Jenney refused to answer about whether there was a conflict
in hiring a teacher to build his house
- 8/30/01 - City 1; God 0 as marathon beats out religion
- 8/30/001 - Council defies court ruling; votes to lease publicly owned Ferrell
Parkway right-of-way
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8/30/01 - School Supt. Jenney hires teacher to build home, is sued for
payment
- 9/2/01 - Jenney asks taxpayers for $70,000 to fund his education in another state to qualify him for his job
- 9/7/01 - City must honor restaurant's lease, Judge rules in Neptune's Corner case
- 09/9/01 - Ice cream man with ties to convicted 31st St.
hotel project developers seeks council seat
- 9/12/01 - Former VB pilot may have had 5th hijacker aboard his northbound jet
- 9/26/01 - Judge orders city to pay PETA's legal fees for illegal
freedom of information activities
- 9/30/01 - Like shifting sand, the unusual dealings at Town Center change again
- 10/4/01 - After costing city a fortune in legal fees, Marine Science Museum director Rawls resigns
- 10/15/01 - Has this country gone crazy over some rag head
camel jockey?
- 10/29/01 - Developer in deal court ruled illegal owes more than $137,00 in back taxes
- 11/01/01 - Ferrell Parkway: Land grab & political payoff? Everyone wins except taxpayers
- 11/01/01 - See chart of characters in Ferrell Parkway deal with conflicting interests
- 11/01/01 - Land grab, unpaid taxes, good ole boy network, overpriced land part of Ferrell
Parkway deal
- 11/01/01 - Chart showing low assessed value of property in illegal deal
- 11/2/01 - City complacent in conspiracy with feds in land grab and political payoff involving Ferrell Parkway
- 11/9/01 - Ferrell Parkway: An illegal deal the city
couldn't refuse
- Council suffering battered wife syndrome on 31st St. failed hotel deal
- 11/22/01 - Langley AF unit over flies Afghanistan unarmed
- 11/30/01 - Hottest new, youth bluegrass band in south - Twin Springs Band
- 12/3/01 - Even the White House Press Corps thinks Virginia Beach's
$20,000 city song is stupid
- 12/11/01 - When are public records private and vice versa in Marine Science trial?
- 12/12/01 - See who got the coal mine and who got the shaft when it came to City Mgr. Spore doling out public money to high friends in low places
- 12/15/01 - Judge rules 2nd city Ferrell Parkway deal a sham, illegal and unconstitutional
- 12/20/01 - Real estate taxes on property in deal judge ruled illegal now in excess of $211,000
- 12/21/01 - State Supreme Court upholds Judge that city's Ferrell Parkway deal was illegal
- 12/21/01 - Court considering if city employee lied in another freedom of information case
- 12/26/01 - Where the truth on 31st St. Hotel? Spore giving council another Fleet enema?
- 1/3/02 - Goodbye to a First Dog named Buddy - R.I.P.
- 1/18/02 - Political correctness perverts history on plans for WTC memorial
- 1/29/02 - Judge rules in condo case that Dryvit is defective material, awards $2.5M
- 1/29/01 - Anti-freedom of information law proposed by lawyer angered by PETA suing Virginia Beach
- 1/30/02 - Anti-freedom of information bill buried for a year
- 2/8/02 - Appraiser of hurricane damage to hotels owned by Ruffin and Thompson acted more like Santa than scrooge
- 2/8/02 - Furrier uses illegal sprinklers to soak animal rights demonstrators
- 2/11/02 - Adjuster says his mouth got him in trouble in approving $21.5M in damages to Ruffin/Thompson
- 2/11/02 - Humpback whale washes ashore @ 33rd St. Saturday night
- 2/14/02 - Farm welfare payments big source of city farmers' income
- 2/22/02 - Maddox flip flops for Beach Borough seat after Branch drops out
- 2/21/02 - How City Council is going to double your taxes
- 2/23/02 - Nationwide gets $17.8M or $21.5M back
from damages claims paid to hotels connected to Ruffin/Thompson
- 2/26/02 - City wins 1 PETA round, appeal pending
- 2/28/02 - Del. McDonnell joins
Political Liars Hall of Shame
for violating Taxpayer Protection Pledge
- 3/1/02 - Remodeling company cancels pseudo official looking ad as misleading
- 3/1/02 - Take Town Center Quiz to see if you are as dumb as City Council
- 3/1/02 - Andrea Kilmer, beach businesswoman, announces for council seat
- 3/5/02 - Watch $609 a second spent on drug war add up to billions
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3/6/02 - Virginia Beach has $413.4M surplus and still wants to raise taxes
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3/6/02 - State has $16.36B secret tax surplus and it wants to raise taxes?
- 3/6/02 -
Check database to see how much tax surpluses each state and locality has
- 3/8/02 -
'Sodbuster' subsidies - your tax dollars finance welfare farmers' retirement
plans under guise of protecting a portion of the city from development
- 3/8/02 - Council
recently paid one of its consultant appraisers $271,000 more for development
rights than property was assessed
- 3/8/02 - Virginia
Dental Association which holds national records for its dental outreach
clinics goes to the Eastern Shore to aid indigents
- 3/8/02 - Is
Resource Bank's headquarters in Town Center's future. Some say,
"Yes."
- 3/14/02 - City
pays appraiser 156.7% more for his property rights than it could have bought
the property for in outright purchase
- 3/16/02 - Saks Fifth
Avenue reported coming to MacArthur Mall
- 3/16/02 - Town
Bank newest Town Center tenant
- 2/14/02 - Check
out sodbuster subsidy database
- 3/21/02 - Bristol home of 75th anniversary of
Country Music - history Part I
- 3/22/02 - Part II history
of Country Music and 75th anniversary celebration
- 3/29/02 - The Big Lie: How city officials lied
to City Council and public to cover up deal for 31st St. Hotel
- 3/30/02 -
Shunning: Time honored way of avoiding politicians with no integrity
- 3/30/02 -
Ferrell Parkway winners lose case seeking legal costs from city
- 3/30/02 -
Chesapeake loses tattoo parlor appeal
- 4/6/02 -
View 106 taxes and fees you pay in Virginia Beach
- 4/7/02 - On the
paper trail of the 31st Street hotel deal
- 4/8/02 - New tax
protest group forms in Virginia Beach
- 4/8/02 -
City council candidates Richard Maddox & Peter Schmidt misappropriate
city property for personal political sign operation
- 4/9/02 -
City orders candidates to stop using city property for illegal political
sign operation
- 4/12/02 - If it wasn't for bad luck, Ruffin and
Thompson wouldn't have any good luck at all: How insurance damage
awards and taxpayers bought the property for their 16th Street Boardwalk Inn
- 4/22/02 - CACI
endorses candidates for city council
- 4/26/02 - City Councilman Billy Harrison paid
$28,000 to settle sexual assault/harassment claim
- 4/30/02 - Victim in Harrison case says her
own lawyer threatened to sue her if she revealed info about sexual
assault/harassment case
- 5/3/02 - Victim in Harrison sexual
assault/harassment case says she plans to file request for investigation
into whether Harrison or her lawyer Laibstain violated the law or ethics in
dealing with her complaint
- 5/3/02 - Council candidate Lea in conspiracy
funding council attack ad against candidate Kilmer
- 5/3/02 - Council candidate Peter Schmidt's
failing environmental record and his role in 'stealth' ad conspiracy
- 5/8/02 -
Voters wanted change; got best government money could buy - analysis
- 5/12/02 - Is Israel's military excesses a government
plot against Palestinians? - Commentary
- 5/22/02 - Did council know of suit threat prior to
approving 31st St. hotel project? Outside legal costs exceed $1/2
MILLION
- 5/28/02 - Read
the political machinations of the latest 31st St. hotel deal
- 5/30/02 - Council picks Harrison/Sessoms crony
to assure favorable vote on 31st St. hotel project in controversial move
- FL Ax the Tax leader writes on transportation and taxes ...Sally
Baptiste
- 6/12/02 - VDOT's
highway from Hell - example of wasted resources by
government
- 6/21/02
- Transportation vs. representation: Transportation taxes often
disguised as government corruption
- Taxes and
transportation
- Govt.
mismanagement, how low taxes cause of financial woes
- Read
full statement of VB tax referendum protesters
- Northern
VA fights proposed tax increase
- Tolls
- the ultimate government fraud
- Taxes and
transportation: facts and fantasies politicians won't tell you
- 6/30/02
- Transportation taxes and tolls nothing ore than government scams on public
- 6/29/02
- VB School Supt. "Tiny" Tim Jenney throws feast costing thousands
for outgoing school board members; at least 4 or 5 members boycotted
- 6/30/02
- Can Jenney flim flam new school board? ...Opinion
- 6/30/02
- Jenney has reputation of lavish spending at taxpayer expense ...Letters
- 7/4/02
- Excessive, unreasonable taxation led to formation of our nation; Yorktown
graves are proof
- 7/11/02 - There were
white slaves, black slaves, and a Constitution that needs revision
- 7/11/02 - Del. Terrie
Suit wants you to vote yourselves a tax increase - but she doesn't have to
pay them
- 7/11/02 - Del.
Marshall says tax referendum is like buying a pig in a poke
- 7/11/02 - School
Supt. Jenney's tardiness @ ceremony make have contributed to students' auto
accidents
- 7/11/02 - School
Supt. Jenney has reputation for lavish spending of tax funds for 'personal'
partying
- 7/11/02
- Mayor two-faced in supporting spy cams
- 7/11/02 - You can
count on Mayor Oberndorf to not be stupid enough to do the right thing
- 7/26/02
- Passage of sales tax referendum will cause more problems than it will
solve
- 7/26/02 -
Pilot's Madd Marx(ist) editor wrong-headed in support of tax referendum
- 7/26/02
- Asking citizens to support referendum is like buying a pig in a poke
- 7/26/02 - Texans
reject transportation referendum and sky didn't fall
- 7/26/02 -
Writer has answer to area's transportation woes
- 7/26/02 - Broken
promises put legislators in "Political Liars' Hall of Shame"
- 7/26/02 - Writer
says he won't vote for Warner or tax referendum
- 7/26/02 - Delegate
Terrie Suit doesn't have to pay taxes she wants you to pay
- 7/26/02 - Del.
Marshall says tax referendum is asking voter to buy a pig in a
poke
-
Sen. Williams, tax patron, disputes 22% increase if passed
- Sorry Marty!
Your 2+2 doesn't = 4. No wonder
our taxes are squandered: A response to Sen. Williams' letter
above
- 7/28/02 - What
should grass-roots conservatives do as the Bush administration strays from
fundamentals?
- 8/1/02 -
Williams, Mullens gets also $1M in 2 years in city legal fees.
Corrected figures
- 8/1/02 -
X-Councilman Harrison, who paid $28,000 to settle sexual assault complaint,
switches law firms
- 8/1/02 - Council
sets early standard in catering to high friends in low places; high flying
trip postponed; Maddox friend and accompanying letter condemning trip
- 8/1/02 - You know
you're liberal "IF"
- 8/5/02
- Del. Welch says it will take 20,000 body bags for dead if referendum isn't
passed
- 8/6/02
- Local Ax the Tax group challenges proponents of tax referendum to public
debate
- 8/6/02
- Gov. Warner using state house for stepping stone to White House?
- 8/6/02
- 22% increase in sales tax isn't benign
- 8/6/02
- Are there any honest politicians out there? Or is honest politician
an oxymoron?
- 8/7/02
- CACI pleads with City Council for fiscal sanity
- 8/8/02
- Failed tax votes elsewhere in August omens for fall sales tax referendum
- 8/8/02
- Government is selective in doing the will of the voters in past elections
- 8/8/02
- Story of the blind snake, blind rabbit, & the Virginian-Pilot
editorial writer
- 8/11/02
- School Supt. engages in 'dirty tricks' to discredit school board members
- 8/18/02
- 4 state legislators say proponents of tax referendum are lying to the
public
- 8/18/02
- Politicians, business leaders launch biggest FRAUD in VA's history to pass
state sales tax increase
- Highway
consulting firm stacked with X-VDOT top brass gets lucrative contract with
state
- GOP
bureaucrats withheld VDOT report exposing voodoo Republican economics from
legislature
- 8/27/02
- Military's main goal is to place ordnance on target, not provide
babysitting services
- 8/27/02
- Commuting is the best part of the job
- 9/8/02
- Raghead terrorists can't comprehend the
meaning of our Constitution
- 9/8/02
- Navy admits increased jet noise affects
learning
- 9/8/02
- Navy, city don't know where they are, even
with (Oceana) maps
- 9/11/02
- Mass engineered grief over 9/11 is covering failed government
responsibilities and policies
- 9/11/02
- Regionalism: Overcoming the politics of the past
- 9/11/02
- Killers in the cockpit: A minute by minute account of the hijackers
activities
- 9/11/02
- Political morons whose solution to every problem is to raise taxes are
everywhere
- 9/11/02
- Tidewater voters hit by snow job of lies from supporters of 22% tax
increase referendum
- 9/11/02
- Virginia Beach should bridge the Lynnhaven to connect Great Neck, Little
Neck peninsulas
- 9/16/02 -
Mandigo arrested for wife beating
- 9/17/02 - VB vice mayor should resign over wife beating charges
- 9/18/02
- Dave Addis calls for Mandigo's resignation from council
- 9/18/02
- Pilot editorial says Mandigo owes public answers to his abusive behavior
- 9/18/02
-
Is beach mayor Meyera Oberndorf an enabler by not calling for
resignation of vice mayor who was jailed on a wife beating charge?
- 9/19/02 -
Mandigo is a disgrace to the office of Vice Mayor; should resign
- 9/19/02
-
Feds investigate VDOT, contractor corruption in potential
multi-million dollar waste of funds on so-called 'Smart Highway'
in Tidewater
- 9/23/02 - The $4.5M lie nets
taxpayers a 'field of weeds.': City gives away $4.5 Million in
taxpayer funds to a developer who promised to have office building filled
with high paying jobs open by May 2002.
- 9/25/02 -
Sales tax proposal is simply a redistribution of wealth: Getting rich
through deception
- 9/25/02 - 22%
sales tax hike argument filled with lies - response to Virginian-Pilot's
pro-campaign
- 9/26/02
- Pilot's story of need for 3rd Hampton Roads bridge-tunnel is Big Lie
- 9/26/02
- Proposed Southeastern Expressway would only benefit politicians and
developers
- 9/26/02
- Beach Councilwoman Margaret Eure said city paid for her trip to FL to
learn how to combat grassroots opponents of the 22% sales tax hike
referendum
- 9/27/02 - Media's
campaign for 22% tax hike 'clear demonstration of last century
thinking'
- 10/02/02 - Vice
mayor's trial on wife beating charge set for Oct. 30
- 10/2/02 - The suspicious bureaucracy behind the 22% tax hike and its
fallacies
- 10/13/02
- Sen. Geo. Allen goes on record opposing 22% sales tax hike referendum
- 10/13/02
- Earth isn't flat, storks don't deliver babies, and taxes don't relieve
traffic congestion
- 10/19/02
- Reader castigates local media for lack of
credibility, objectivity; says newspaper favors every tax and
demonizes all who disagree
- 10/19/02 - Five
reasons,
any one of which, is justifiable for voting NO
on 22% sales tax hike referendum
- 10/19/02
- Publisher of Virginian-Pilot mocks the principle of
editorial balance in 22% tax hike coverage
- 10/19/02
- Local Republican finds Rep. Schrock less than
enlightened on sales tax hike issue; says he is stabbing
constituents in back by supporting it
- 10/24/02
- Disorder in the court...VA Supreme Court spending out of control ...costs
rising 1,000 times faster than population ...Paul Goldman
- 10/29/02
- Cost of VA government has grown 3,400%+ in 30 years ...Paul Goldman
- 10/29/02
-
YE$ campaign numbers in 22% sales tax hike referendum campaign
don't add up
- 10/29/02
- Its Splitsville for Sch. Supt. Jenney...after months of speculation and
rumors, TLD files for divorce
- 10/29/02
- Transportation facts: The difference between media fiction
- 10/29/02
- Believe it or Not! Del. Terrie Suit says the more children people
have causes population growth ... & other stupid statements from
politicians
- 10/29/02
- Open
letter: X-admirals speaking with forked tongues promoting
22% sales tax hike referendum?
- 10/29/02
- Increased
taxes not answer to transportation problems
- 10/29/02 - CNU
Prez Trible shows intelligence: Cuts nursing, education programs,
instead of political science to meet budget reductions
- 10/29/02
- Del. Suit lying to public about tax hike referendum issue
- 10/29/02
- Creative planning cheaper than raising taxes to solve transportation
woes
- 10/29/02
- Poor government management resulted in need for more taxes
- 10/30/02
- If you're undecided, the best you can do is vote NO to increase your own
taxes 22%
- 10/30/02
- The 22% tax hike road referendum unmasked
- 10/30/02
- Referendums are self-serving for the whims of politicians
- 10/30/02
- Open letter: X-admirals speaking with forked tongues promoting 22%
sales tax hike referendum?
- 10/30/02
- Increased taxes not answer to transportation problems
- 10/31/02
- If you're a public official, it's ok to beat your wife as long as you
don't smoke crack and you can't be kicked out of office
- 10/31/02
- Referendums are self-serving for the whims of politicians
- 10/31/02
- If you're undecided, the best choice you can make on the 22% tax hike
referendum is NO
- 10/31/02
- The 22% tax hike road referendum unmasked
- 11/05/02
- HRT using $50,000 +/- of your tax dollars to suck
blacks into voting for tax hike referendum - the rest of the
story
- 11/05/02
- Virginian-Pilot calls the kettle black in attack on Virginia News
Source
- 11/05/02
- Proponents, HRT play 'race' card to cover up vote buying tactics
- 11/05/02
- Black Peninsula delegate decries anti-referendum VNS story on vote
buying
- 11/12/02
- Gov. "No Tax" Warner wants Tidewater to pay for state's port
'boon'
- 11/12/02
- Funding has already been collected for roads and its been misspent
- 11/12/02
- Sales tax vote would have been a blank check to wasteful politicians
- 11/12/02
- Shame:
How the media, powerbrokers, & politicians conspired to make people
raise their own taxes
- 11/13/02
- Referendum defeats mark new era in VA politics
by Paul Goldman
- 11/25/02
- Cooked voter poll led to tax hike debacle by Paul Goldman
- 11/27/02
- Despite voters' rejection, City Council resurrects proposal to for a
redevelopment & housing authority
- 11/29/02 - Federal flood insurance program ends
Dec. 31
- 11/29/02
- Hitting below average on the global sex survey scale
- 12/4/02
- Screwed & scrooged by Dr. Jenney
- 12/4/02
- The fisherman, the amberjack, and $10,000+ fine: Malicious prosecution?
- 12/4/02
- Randy Wright and pot calling kettle black
- 12/4/02
- Putting K-12 first - Paul Goldman
- 12/5/02
- Commercial pilot Jim Dillard takes on the Saudis over 9/11 hijacking
- 12/7/02
- Fisherman needs better 'lawyering' - letter from B. Minter
- 12/8/02
- Take test to see if you can be a government anti-terrorism profiler
- 12/8/02
- Malicious prosecution or protection of the species - fisherman Ed Bender -
Part II
- 12/8/02
- Republicans have lost their leadership - Patrick McSweeney
- 12/8/02
- Hillary Clinton for President? Paul Goldman's prediction
- 12/12/02 - Norfolk
School Board blows millions on design that shortchanges education
- 12/13/02
- Politically correct holiday greetings
- 12/13/02
- Ret. Adm. J. Paul (Un)Reason & Metro Machine economics
- 12/13/02
- In politics, symbols - even bad ones - like portrait of Vance Wilkins
count
by Patrick McSweeney
- 12/16/02 - Words of a combat veteran to a
conscientious objector -
Listen up dirtbag! - Mike Walsh
- 12/16/02 - Time for first ever K-12 general obligation
bond issue - Goldman
- 12/16/02
- Photo - Bayside Girls - we smoke, we vote, we organize - don't raise
cigarette taxes
- 12/20/02
- Who's practicing fraudulent law?
Virginia's Atty. Gen. or the fisherman
- 12/20/02
- Casting Lott out a necessity - by James Atticus Bowden
- 12/22/02
- Fisherman claims marine fisheries agency is using regulations and attorney
general's office to harass citizens arbitrarily and capriciously
- 12/22/02
- Huge marina complex planned for Lake Rudee
- 12/23/02
- Fisherman claims marine fisheries agency is using regulations and attorney
general's office to harass citizens arbitrarily and capriciously
- 12/24/02
- Old man and the
Sea - you be the jury - Vexatious old pro se
takes on entire state of Virginia
- 12/24/02
- The 12 days of Christmas by Del. Bill Janis
- 1/3/03
- Trent Lott, George Allen, and Cross Burning: Lessons to be Learned
or how klan a southern politician win?
- 1/3/03
- He's baaack! Vexatious old man, the sea, and a short course in
marine law
- 1/3/03
- Parody (truth) Parody (truth) - the
politically correct way to run a Navy
- 1/6/03
- Willie, Billie, & Branch - Dubious Achievement Awards
- 1/7/03
- Citizens
petitions council to stop misleading public on tourism value
- 1/7/03
- Virginia Beach Taxpayer Alliance calls on City Council to work with it in
future spending decisions
- 1/9/03
- Anti-tax group asks: Can you afford what Mayor Oberndorf passes off
as leadership in the tax increase shell game she leads the council to play
- 1/9/03
- Greene Co. activist admits error in school report - but keeps on trying
- 1/9/03
- Fauquier News update on putting public records on line; bill introduced in
GA, read text here
- 1/9/03
- Putting K-12 education first by Paul Goldman
- 1/9/03
- Beach citizen denounces media's intimidation attempt of gun permit holders
- 1/9/03
- Can citizens afford what Mayor Oberndorf is passing off as
leadership? Continued tax increase?
- 1/14/03
- Is VB Sen. Stolle stupid or something? Shows arrogance in TV report
of anti-tax group visiting General Assembly
- 1/14/03
- Separate, but unequal holidays by James Atticus Bowden
- 1/14/03
- Changing the way Virginia elects its governor by Patrick McSweeney
- 1/14/03
- Eastern Shore fisherman charges state fisheries agency guilty of robbery
and federal law by its enforcement actions
- 1/14/03
- Gilmore pulls bait and switch with "No Car Tax" deal by Goldman
- 1/15/03 - VA
Taxpayers Association testifies supporting use of huge slush
fund to balance budget, help state's fiscal needs
- 1/15/03
- Sen. Stolle is the one who doesn't represent voters in his district
- 1/16/03
- VA
Taxpayers Association testifies supporting use of huge slush fund to balance
budget, help state's fiscal needs
- 1/16/03
- 'Taliban' Del. Bob McDonnell sets self up to judge oral sex
- 1/16/03
- Writer
asks legislators to let people police themselves like lawmakers do
- 1/19/03
- Of flying courthouses and cowardly bureaucrats
- 1/21/03
-Eastern Shore fisherman demands formal hearing from fisheries agency to
right wrongs
- 1/21/03
- Demo presidential candidates just fossilized, recycled ole liberals
- 1/21/03
- Real Republican Racism by James Atticus Bowden
- 1/21/03
- Bill Clinton Day by Mike Smith
- 1/21/03
- Local media breaks more wind than news by Don Vtipil
- 1/24/03
- Convicts, consensus & city council: Tribute to Sessoms,
Harrison, & Branch
- 1/24/03
- The case against a 2-term governor
- 1/24/03
- 30 years and 40M abortions later - Bowden
- 1/26/03
- State hwy. plan would waste money, cause dangerous traffic flaw
- 1/28/03 -
Sch. Supt. Jenney sends $100,000 assistant to lobby against bill for public
hearings on his salary
- 2/1/03
- School Supt. Jenney delays taxpayer - financed Duke U MBA degree for
1-year; no extra cost to taxpayer, he says
- 2/1/03
- In the nation of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
- 2/3/03
- Eastern Shore residents asks government for common sense solutions to
transportation problem
- 2/4/03
- "All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than
others" by Kevin Martingayle
- 2/4/03
- CPAC - the epicenter of conservative politics by Mike Smith
- 2/4/03
- The 2003 State of the Empire is Strong by James Atticus Bowden
- 2/4/03
- Shuttle tragedy an omen against aggression of U.S. & Israel toward
rest of world? - Don Alberts
- 2/5/03
- Eastern Shore fisherman raises questions that Marine Police committed
perjury; demands full hearing
- 2/5/03
-Democrats suffering from Beyeritis on Death Tax issue - Goldman
- 2/5/03
- EVMS places vice president, two others on
administrative leave; reportedly launches contract investigation
- 2/5/03
- In a major 2nd Amendment victory Virginia college
changes 'policy' to allow concealed weapons on campus; challenge
brought by student member of Harrisonburg-Rockingham Libertarian Party
- 2/5/03
- Virginia Beach Taxpayer Alliance blasts school superintendent for tax
increase proposal; says his job does not include fiscal responsibility - not
in his job description
- 2/5/03
- School Supt. is a good man with education system interest @ heart
- 2/7/03
- Eastern Shore commercial fisherman contacts FBI, U.S. attorney, charging
Virginia Marine Resource Commission with corruption, violation of federal
law
- 2/8/03
- EVMS puts vice president, two others on administrative leave; launches
contract investigation
- 2/10/03
- Deaths of astronauts puts Virginians on common ground
- 2/11/03 - NEA
keeps students ignorant of economics
- 2/20/03
- EVMS a medical school with growing problems
- 2/21/03
- In the eyes of government, molds of good and evil are the same - Smith
2/22/03 - New
Magruder Blvd. bridge found unsafe; had to be torn down; rebuilt
- 2/23/03
- Give war a chance- Bowden
- 2/23/03
- Stirring class envy - McSweeney
- 2/24/03
- White Norfolk couple sues Popeye's Chicken restaurants for discrimination
for refusing to serve them while serving black customers
- Virginia
Beach Taxpayer Alliance denounces School Supt. Jenney's 'Lone Ranger'
management style
- 3/1/03 -
Spore: Spending Poorly On Resort Extravagances
- 3/1/03
- Evil demons trying to destroy the American dream - Mike Smith
- 3/3/03 -
VDOT's new chief dedicated to reform maverick, mismanaged agency; restore
public confidence
- 3/06/03 - VB Taxpayer Alliance says that
city spending and tax growth exceeding taxpayers' income advances
- 3/11/03 - VNS
articles on VDOT on target
- 3/11/03 - Somehow,
VDOT's bureaucracy is listening but not hearing the people
- 3/28/03
- Council was right to fiscally spank school supt. for additional funding
request
- 3/28/03
- School employee survey reveals dissatisfaction, distrust of
administration, system
- 3/31/03
- I was Saddam - by Bowden
- 5/06/03
- Mayor saving citizens from sex toys and upping their taxes (or "I
like Dirty Dick's," mayor says)
- 5/28/03
- Council wants to pass law allowing it to give contracts without
bids to favored developers
- 5/30/03
- City Mgr. Jim Spore may be job hunting because he's losing control of City
Council
- 5/30/03
- Deputy Commissioner of the Revenue Eric Schmudde to run for Clerk of
Courts
- 6/1/03
- Is Jim Spore really ready to quit as city manager, or is the bluffing the
council?
- 6/03/03 -
Good morning news!
- 6/04/03 -
Good morning news!
- 6/10/03
- Cynics, critics, & comics blast city council in 15 letters over appointment of Xs to
tax panel
- 6/12/03
- EVMS stiffs faculty and staff on raises for 2nd consecutive year
- 6/16/03
- Council gives City Mgr. Spore 3rd professional slap over refusal to move
industrial equipment from Lake Wesley
- 6/24/03
- Gestapo-like agency drops toll proposal; wants 11-cent gas tax hike
- 6/24/03
- Public officials (Art Collins, Jim Spore) are the problem they are trying
to solve
- 6/26/03
- New convention center: City hiding real cost of new convention
center ; may be closer to $400 MILLION than $193 MILLION publicized
- 6/28/03
- Gov. Mark Warner pulls a Chuck Robb - plays while wife is away
- 6/28/03
- How can you tell when the media is lying? It prints it
- 6/28/03
- Constitution, not Congress is Supreme law of the
land
- 6/28/03
- DOES
FATHER KNOW BEST? Problems
between the Bushes by
Stephen Merrill
- 7/1/03
- Sch. Supt. Jenney publicizes he's marrying one of his principals
- 7/7/03
- Sentara Healthcare System to 'strip' neo-natal intensive care unit from
Virginia Beach General Hospital; relocate it to Norfolk
- 7/8/03
- Virginia Beach City Council co-conspirators with Sentara in shutting down
city hospital's medical resources; the sordid story, a VNS investigation
of conflicting interests
- 7/8/03
- Somebody is blowing smoke up somebody's skirt about Sentara and City
Council
- 7/8/03
- How'd Sentara get a monopoly on all city employees' health care and
medical services? Was somebody bribed? Or are our officials just
that stupid?
- 7/11/03
- Legendary Man in Black - Johnny Cash - gives surprise concert @ Carter's
Fold
- 7/11/03
- Woman lawyer disbarred for attacking VA court system for 'falsifying'
public trial records
- 7/11/03
- Devil's bargain - the Making of Mexifornia - a review by Susan Freis
- 7/11/03
- Sentara denies closure of VB General neonatal intensive care unit; but
admits issue arose
- 7/14/03
- Feds shut down state fisheries over 3 dead turtles; action
effective July 16-30, but injunction to be sought
- 7/16/03
- Fisherman files injunction to block fisheries ban
- 7/21/03
- Federal judge denies disabled fisherman's request to block shutdown
of state's fisheries
- 7/22/03
- Whole new section of I-64 on Peninsula may have to be torn out and
rebuilt; worst case scenario, VDOT says
- 7/22/03
- Federal judge erred in not granting injunction to stop feds from closing
state's fisheries
- 7/23/03
- VDOT names panel to recommend solutions to paving problems on I-64
- 7/29/03
- Virginia
Beach City Council asked to punish out of control City Manager
James K. Spore for repeatedly flouting state law
CACI report: Tax relief in Virginia Beach; an oxymoron
8/8/03
- City council is fiscally confused - Bob O'Connor
8/20/03-Norfolk
State Sen. Nick Rerras doesn't think public pays enough tax; he contributes
to the "Tax Me More Fund"
8/21/03
- VDOT dodges 'worst case scenario' in correcting flat
pavement on I-64 on Peninsula; announces details of repairs Monday
8/25/03
- Plan to move city hall to town center ignores citizen input
8/26/03
- VDOT goofed in allowing faulty paving; I-64 repairs will cost taxpayers
$2.7 million: That's the bad news. The good news it isn't as bad as
originally thought - Virginia News Source
9/10/03
- Writer weaves web of corporate, political conflict of interest with
Sentara Health Systems - Both city council and Sentara are flim flaming
the public
9/10/03
- Virginia Beach City Council to raise Titanic and dock
it at Rudee Inlet ...almost humor
9/10/03
- Virginia school boards must comply with state laws: Guns or no guns
- that isn't the issue when governing bodies become 'scofflaws' of acts they
don't like - by David Briggman
9/10/03
- Federal justice run amok in U.S. District Court in
Norfolk: 1 woman's tale of injustice in trying to expose government
corruption in that city ...more
9/12/03 -
Johnny Cash dead @ 72
9/12/03
- Figures don't add up in Downtown Hampton - TEA
9/12/03
- Writer weaves web of corporate, political conflict of interest with
Sentara Health Systems - Both city council and Sentara are flim flaming the
public
9/12/03
- Writer says VB taxes are high, but below national average; thinks tax
story misleading
9/12/03 -
The VDOT Letters - VDOT hiring more engineers 'shameful waste' of taxpayers
money
9/16/03
- VDOT's
Shucet chastises self for failure; lays down law
to employees & likens VDOT's recent crisis to NASA
repeating same space shuttle mistakes with great loss of life
9/16/03
- Writer says VB taxes are high, but below
national average; thinks tax story misleading
9/16/03 - Current
rising real estate tax assessments should be a concern to all Virginia
residents where the property values have risen at a high rate. This is a
major concern here in Thalia where property assessments have risen a
“whopping” 300 to 400% on the average since I bought my home here in
1985
9/23/03
- Observations of the storm; from Virginia Beach's senile mayor's shameless
hustling of media interviews to hysteric, inexperienced reports from media
10/4/03
- The online viewing charge is not only a denial of free access to public
records and a taxpayer penalty; it is an infringement to freedom,
says clerk of court candidate
10/4/03
- Beach clerk of court candidate Sinnen gives contractor
money back after getting hand caught in cookie jar
10/4/03
- Go
& Sin no more...The SINnen Letters
10/4/03
- Beach cuts special interest developers & businesses
a tax break and continues to ride homeowners for the bulk of its tax
revenue
10/04/03
- HUD audit of Portsmouth Redevelopment & Housing Authority finds monies
unaccounted for; other discrepancies
-
10/4/03
- Virginia Beach Vice Mayor Louis Jones makes $1 MILLION plus off taxpayers
of Kill Devil Hills in land deal
-
10/08/03
- Because character counts - Clancy Holland vs. State
Sen. Frank Wagner
-
10/11/03
- Dumb, arrogant, insensitive, voter unfriendly politicians, bureaucrats
& business leaders who prey on taxpayers in the name of progress -
Obstacles to Regionalism - @ Thursday's public forum ...A VNS Report
-
10/13/03
- The story of Del. Terrie Suit's 'secret
constituent office,' built inside a shed with an indoor firearms shooting
range
-
10/13/03
- Keep the Dillion Rule - it protects the people
-
10/13/03
- GOP activist Ben Krause endorses Democrat candidates
for clerk, state senate
-
10/13/03
- Light rail a top priority? Of crazy politicians
-
10/16/03
- Del. Suit's property assessment updated
-
10/25/03
- So VDOT is going to get tough, eh?
-
11/02/03
- CACI's state of the city report - one of a series of five
-
11/10/03
- No Virginia Beach bases on BRAC target list
-
11/11/03
- 2005 BRAC targets 'flag pole' list to test political opposition
-
11/18/03
- Mayor & city council overcharge
citizens on real estate taxes and undercharge businesses and hotels
-
11/26/03
- Gov. Warner brings biggest tax increase plan in history to Virginia Beach;
'socialist' Democrats swoon over prospect of paying more taxes
-
12/02/03
- A CACI Report: Council squares off against Oceana Naval Air Station
over encroaching development
-
12/12/03
- A CACI Report: The city's plan for 5-years of tax increases
-
12/18/03 - Adventures in Warnerland - Part I
-
12/22/03 - Adventures in Warnerland - Part II
-
12/25/03 - Adventures in Warnerland - Part III
-
12/25/03 -
A CACI Report: Virginia Beach assessments unfair
-
1/07/04
- City's
31st Street hotel project manager fired at request of hotel
developer
-
1-12-04
- School superintendent Jenney's principal wife hawks
massage service to her peers; encourages them to use 2 of her friends for
in-school massages, beauty treatments in violation of school board's
anti-commercialism policy
-
1/16/04
- School superintendent stops wife from hawking commercial massage service to
her peers
-
1/17/04
- 31st St. hotel developer violating agreement with city;
fails to post letter of credit
-
1/17/04
- School superintendent's wife should reimburse taxpayers for misuse of public
resources
-
1/17/04
- Biggie-size my tax increase - by Steven Sisson - The Valley Blue Dog
-
1/21/04
- Hotel developer wants city employees barred from talking to media about 31st
St
-
1/27/04
- CACI's Rate your Council Member chart
-
1/29/04
- Illegal work
continues on 31st St. hotel project; no letter of credit posted;
city hasn't stopped construction as required
-
1/30/04
- Knights of the Anti-Tax Roundtable, Part II - Blue Dog Tales
-
2/02/04
- Virginia Beach has 6th highest meal tax rate in America - see chart
-
2/3/04
- More trouble looming for VDOT in SW Virginia; MILLIONS involving I-81 may be in jeopardy, senior project engineer resigned Friday
-
2/9/04
- Chart showing the imbalance of residential, hotel and commercial property
assessments in Virginia Beach
-
2/16/04
- Virginia Beach funding its whims & follies on the backs of homeowners
-
2/19/04
- A cause for revolution - The
government's abuse of Virginia watermen in the false name of conservation
-
3/10/04
- Beach Sch. Supt. Timothy (Tiny Tim) Jenney seeking similar
position with the Pinellas Country, FL school system. Left Thursday for
interview. Multiple factors at play in decision to seek a better life in
a better climate, he tells colleagues in email Thursday
-
3/14/04
- Sch. Supt. Jenney's job hunt brought joy to school system, teachers (but
alas, his reputation preceded him and cost him the job)
-
3/15/04
- It is too easy to say 'we told you so' or ha! ha! ha!, but School Supt.
Timothy Jenney is too pathetic for that - He creates his own train wreck
-
3/15/04
- Multiple letters re: Jenney's self-inflicted train wreck in trying to leave
Virginia Beach for FL job
-
3/15/04
- Sch. Supt. Jenney is an embarrassment to the system and the city
-
3/16/04
- Herr
Sen. Stolle speaketh with forked
tongue to voter about gun control
-
3/18/04
- Mayor Oberndorf lies using fictional accounting and fairy dust to cover
track record of highest taxes in city's history
-
3/18/04
- Mark 'The Gov' Warner lied: No tax hike?
-
3/25/04
- Mayoral candidate Al Wallace forced to resign GOP party position for double
dealing political activity
-
3/25/04
- Free the House!
Free the House Now! More tales of the Blue Dog
- by Steve Sisson
-
4/5/04
- Del. Wardrup Saturday tells Libertarians budget crisis is a hoax to raise
taxes
-
4/5/04
- Mayor
admits circumventing charter & bypassing citizens to sell $327 MILLION in
bonds
-
4/6/04
- (Sorry) State of the City - Part 4: A special report by the Citizens Action
Coalition Inc. (CACI) - A must read
-
4/6/04
- 'Tiny' Tim Jenney seeks another school superintendent's job in FL
-
4/6/04
- What is it about 'no more taxes' legislators don't understand?
-
4/6/04
- Who cares if liberal Republicans lose their
seats in General Assembly
-
4/6/04
- Open letter to Del. Dick Black on holding line on taxes
-
4/6/04
- Croatan citizens tell council to cut taxes
-
4/6/04
- Del. Dick Black promises, in exchange of emails, to not betray voters
in holding line on taxes
-
4/6/04
- Monkey dung brains and anti-tax letters
-
4/13/04
- Herr Sen. Stolle said he promised to vote for every state tax hike and 'By God,' he's going to do it
-
4/14/04
- Chesapeake homeowner puts property off limits to low flying aircraft; puts city on notice of action against municipal airport
-
4/20/04
- VB council candidates answer questions @ forum as though they're living on different planets
-
4/21/04
- Mayor candidate Dean goes into the Central Business District special interest den to oppose such taxpayer rape
-
5/14/04
- VB City Council makes schools pay for real estate tax
rate cut; city manager lied, school official says
-
5/14/04
- 'Human error' blamed for VB school system payroll snafu - causing thousands of employees, teachers to not get paid on time Friday
-
5/29/04
- Almost heaven for shoppers who play the game & win And don’t forget: Everybody pays Tennessee’s equitable 9.5% sales
tax.
-
6/8/04
- VB School Board vote to confiscate mobile home park for
new, expensive school set for tonight
-
6/8/04
- Some day your country will need you: by Michael Joseph Walsh - former Virginia Beach based SEAL gives Massachusetts Memorial Day speech
-
6/23/04
- Did contractor lie on
bid questionnaire for 31st Street Parking Garage?
-
7/15/04
- John Lawson a man of many interests and potential for conflicts
-
7/15/04
- 31st St. Hotel developer trying to reshape northern end of
the beach
-
7/15/04
- VDOT chooses 3 possible routes for new U.S. 460