A Katrina-sized hurricane-aka Mayor Doug Wilder - swept through Richmond school administration offices Friday night, leaving a disaster area rife with dangling computer wires, broken-down cubicles, lost files and compromised privacy. While Wilder joked and preened before an audience across town, school officials and bystanders rushed to the site, staring in disbelief as police barred reporters and citizens from a hastily called School Board meeting, file cabinets storing confidential student records stood unattended, and a phalanx of movers snaked in and out of City Hall.
Chief [Rodney D. Monroe]'s decision to leave appears to have delivered the final blow to the mayor, who had been able to boast of the "unprecedented gains in public safety" because of Chief Monroe's work. In a release "on the occasion of the mayor's retirement from public office," Sen. [A. Donald McEachin] stated that "we are better off for the service of Mayor [L. Douglas Wilder]. Mayor Wilder has broken down barriers and moved our country, state and city forward. I think he's earned a rest," said state Sen. Henry L. Marsh III, a former law school classmate of the mayor and a political rival for influence in the city's East End. special to the NNPA from the Richmond Free Press
The National Slavery Museum championed by former Gov. Doug Wilder looks less likely than ever to become reality: Fredericksburg put the land that was to hold it on the market last week to satisfy real estate taxes that haven't been paid since 2008. True, a financial savior can pay the $215,000 tax lien any time during the months it will take to sell the 38-acre property.
We must improve transportation infrastructure in Virginia. However, in this tough economy finding new funding for any initiative is not easy. That is why I have proposed injecting at least half a billion dollars in new funding for transportation not by raising taxes, but by ending Virginia's outdated government monopoly on the sale of distilled spirits. State government should focus on its core functions; selling alcohol isn't one of them. Today residents of Tennessee, Maryland and 30 other states buy distilled spirits from private retailers, just like Virginians already do with beer and wine. Reliable studies consistently show no significant differences in crime or societal factors between monopoly and privatized states. Every recent governor, including Democrats Mark Warner, Tim Kaine...
AS AMERICA com-memorates the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, a frustrating battle of wills continues over plans for a national museum that would tell the story behind the war's cause - slavery. In 2002, a developer in Fredericksburg donated land for the creation of the U.S. National Slavery Museum to a group headed by former Gov. Doug Wilder. The museum was to become part of a sprawling commercial and tourism project known as Celebrate Virginia; plans were later announced to build an "authentic African- themed resort" and water park next to the museum.
We wrap ourselves in the agendas of others and subvert our own interests for the silliest and flimsiest of reasons. For instance, in Ohio the discussion is now centered on the governor's race. Like our neighbors in Pennsylvania, we are faced with a political choice between a Black Republican and a White Democrat, the Blacks being Ken Blackwell and Lynn Swann, respectively. I can't imagine what the rationale is in Pennsylvania for electing Lynn Swann, who said George Bush is the "most qualified and most credible candidate to fulfill the role as president of the United States." But in my hometown of Cincinnati, the rationale being promulgated in support of Blackwell is, "Let's make history." That's what they said about Doug Wilder. How are you Black folks in Virginia doing these days? Her...
Repealing Virginia's handgun rationing law is a top priority for the Virginia Shooting Sports Association during the 2012 session of the Virginia General Assembly. In 1993, Gov. Doug Wilder signed legislation known as "one-gun-a-month." The premise behind the law was based on flawed data. Wilder and his gun ban lobby friends made the claim, based on a relative handful of firearm traces conducted in the 1980s under a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms program known as Project Lead, that Virginia was one of the main sources of guns used in crimes in New York, and such a distinction was an embarrassment for the commonwealth. The problem with using BATF trace data for this purpose is the agency's firearms traces do not match guns to crimes. Additionally, BATF freely acknowl...
For the first time in our nation's history, a woman, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, was a leading candidate for her party's presidential nomination. And, for the first time in our history, an African American, Sen. Barack Obama, has clinched that Democratic Party presidential nomination. Our country's support of their candidacies is one of the most encouraging things about today's race for president of the United States. As I recall the life of a tiny Brooklyn-born firebrand by the name of Shirley Chisholm, who in 1968 became the first African-American woman to be elected to Congress, I also recall that in 1972 she became the first African-American candidate for president of the United States. I vividly remember 1989, when Doug Wilder became the first African-American governor of the stat...
Douglas Wilder has become a galvanizing force in his first two months as the city's mayor, inspiring residents to improve the city and implementing sweeping changes in city government. After being sworn in as the city's first popularly elected mayor last month, the Democrat who once was governor of Virginia says he can't walk down the street without residents stopping and telling him how to make Richmond a better place to live and work.
Well, readers, we've had a lot of fun these past nine years. Your questions have sent me on a crazy voyage of discovery -- interviewing everyone from Gov. Doug Wilder to the Neon Man to the guy who used to say, "Elvis has left the building." I talked to an astronaut about burping in space. I interviewed the guy who wrote "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer." I found out what happened to Shirley Temple's brothers.
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