So you want to live near a school?Green RenovationsRebuild New Orleans differentlyIf subscriptions are needed for the above, bugmenot.Get ready for an extraordinarily expensive winter.I have said it before and I’ll say it again, make sure you have enough homeowner’s insurance!Universal Design for homes – making your home retirement ready.Beginning next year, building owners will be eligible for a credit of 30% of the purchase cost of solar power systems — up from the current 10% credit — good article. It is a shame that these incentives are going to expire in 2008. In light of our energy situation, this should be an ongoing effort rather than a brief window.
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Soccer season!
I am coaching my daughter’s U-12 team again and playing as often as possible myself. Our area is truly lucky to have such wonderful soccer fields all around Charlottesville and Albemarle. Coaching takes up an awful lot of time – more than many people realize…. Being unprepared in the face of thirteen 11 and 12-year-olds is a recipe for frustration and disaster.
Charlottesville’s Shelter From the Storm
If you have $20 to spend and want to listen to some excellent music the weekend of 22 September – Due to the recent disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina, a collection oflocal musicians, venue owners, booking agents and concerned citizens have banded together to produce amusical and artistic extravaganza from September 22-25 to help benefit its victims….
Just a thought.
I live in Crozet and drive into Charlottesville most morning. Listening to NPR this morning, they were discussing how heating fuel prices may rise 70% this winter. Gas prices are quite high already. Why do 90% of all the vehicles on the road in the morning have only one person?
NOLA Perspective from a VMI alumnus
QandO has become one of my favorite blogs, which led me to this – “I don’t see that the level of funding was really a contributing factor in this case,” said Lt. Gen. Carl Strock, chief of engineers for the corps. “Had this project been fully complete, it is my opinion that based on the intensity of this storm that the flooding of the business district and the French Quarter would have still taken place.”Despite the fact that Lt. Gen. Strock is a fellow VMI graduate, he has the credibility inherent in being a military officer, not a politician with decidedly political goals. Yes, Bush cut the budget for the levee system, but Lt. Gen. Strock answers that question as well – The other question is, in general is the civil works budget of the Army Corps of Engineers suffering because of the war in Iraq?… And the reason I say that is that if you look at the funding levels of the corps from pre-war days of 2001 and 2002, it has been a fairly steady level.
Possible Progress in New Orleans
Two posts worth reading – Instapundit has some news that I haven’t seen on CNN, MSNBC or FOX – factual reasons why some of the relief is taking so long. And then I see this – The Federal Emergency Management Agency is blocking some 500 airboat pilots from entering New Orleans to assist in rescuing victims still trapped in floodwaters. Huh? And finally, this, assigning some local blame.
Local charity needs help
If you are looking for a way to tangibly contribute, please read the pdf below. In the Daily Progress today there was an article about Calvary Chapel having gone to the Hurricane Katrina area and delivering water and tarps to the hurricane victims…. There has already been arranged transportation and gas has been contributed for by a donor…. SW, the Monticello Animal Hospital and at Gold’s Gym.