Thanks to Google Maps, you can now drive the wrong way down Main Street. Sort of. Certain roads in Harrisonburg are now on now on Google Street View (discovered via Scott Rogers’ blog). As Renee points out on Twitter, it appears that the Google cam car drove through town sometime last fall.
Monday, March 30, 2009
The Staunton News-Leader reports it will lay off its press crew and print the paper in Harrisonburg. Many big-city papers a generation ago were saved by Joint Operating Agreements, antitrust-exempt business partnerships that let papers merge advertising, circulation and production operations while keeping independent newsrooms. As some of the papers that were saved by such [...]
Friday, March 27, 2009
Attention indie rock fans. Since MACRoCk will be here in a week, and we don’t have a staff of paid music critics, we need your help sorting through the schedule. There are a lot of obscure bands there. Which ones should people go see, and why? Just as we solicited your questions for city council [...]
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Staunton Green 2020, a non-partisan citizen coalition, is hosting the Central Virginia Green Cities Forum on Thursday April 2 at 7:30 pm. An email from the group says: Do you want to see how Staunton stacks up with neighboring cities on going green? Find out when officials from Staunton and three other cities — including Harrisonburg’s progressive [...]
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Came across an interesting piece this morning from Harvard econ prof Edward Glasser. He takes a look at urban/ metropolitan areas and links sprawl and the skill level of the workforce to the unemployment rate. He finds, not surprisingly, that…
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
The JMU College of Education is hosting their own version of the game show “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?” at 6:30 PM tonight in Memorial Hall auditorium (the old high school building). Contestants include our mayor Kai Degner, weatherman Kirk Clyatt, and more “local celebs” and JMU faculty. Admission is $2 per individual [...]
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
For the past week, Sen. Mark Obenshain has been lambasting Virginia’s Department of Transportation for wasting taxpayer money on things like YouTube videos, among other projects. Today he announced a website of his own, VDOTwaste.com, aimed at exposing what he calls the “central office bureaucracy” and “high level mismanagement” at VDOT.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
The Chronicle of Education has an interesting piece this week on the internationalization of essay mills, looking inside one company, tracking its orders, examining its records, and contacting its customers. The company (known as Essay Writers), sells custom essays matching the precises specification of it’s customers. These papers, unlike those purchased from online databases, are [...]
Friday, March 20, 2009
Yesterday, National Geographic featured a snippet about “urban chickens” (via Boing Boing). This piqued my interest, because some folks in Harrisonburg recently announced a fundraising event on Facebook called the Harrisonburg Backyard Chicken Project.
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Friendly City Food Co-Op, Harrisonburg’s consumer-owned grocery, invites the community to come see its new destination for natural, organic and locally-produced products at the store’s grand opening 11 a.m.-5 p.m. July 9 at 150 East Wolfe Street.
HARRISONBURG, VA — Friendly City Food Co-op, slated to open this month in Harrisonburg, Va., has become the newest member of the National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA), a business services cooperative serving 120 consumer-owned food co-ops nationwide.
May 2: Harrisonburg was honored when the League of American Bicyclists announced the latest round of Bicycle Friendly Community (BFC) designations over the weekend to kick off May as National Bike Month.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
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