Blueweeds is live blogging the Falls Church City Council meeting on December 14, 2009, for the agenda item regarding moving local elections.
For those of you new to the live blog format, the observations are very contemporaneous (read: not really filtered very well). So please keep that [...]
If true, this could be a battle of heavyweights.
Today the Roanoke Times reports that Councilman David Trinkle is seeking re-election. While this is not news it does officially kick-off campaign season. I will save my commentary till all the candidates are in the field. 
Lanterns in Colonial Williamsburg used to have flame-shaped electrical bulbs. All have now been replaced with these polically correct, ridiculous-looking mercury twisty bulbs.A little conjecture and perspective on the todays' WaPo article on moving local elections (Will Falls Church Voters Move To Fall Elections? ).
The article was pitched by opponents of moving local elections as a way to cudgle the discussion that will happen at the council meeting' [...]
Not much advance notice, but if you want to tell your elected officials what you’re hoping they’ll accomplish this legislative session, here’s one of the few local chances you’ll get before the session starts.
Manassas, VA- The Prince William County Delegation will host a town hall meeting at the Manassas [...]
The heated Capitol Hill debate over health care coverage for mammograms has exploded onto the political scene, shaping the 2010 electoral landscape and recalibrating the battle for a crucial constituency: the women’s vote…
You can read the rest of this article by Alex Isenstadt at the Politico website. [...]From December 9th but somehow I missed it:
In Tuesday’s primary election, Massachusetts Democrats chose as their Senate nominee a woman who kept a clearly innocent man in prison in order to advance her political career.
Martha Coakley isn’t even fit for the late Teddy Kennedy’s old seat. (What is it [...]
Annise Parker was the first openly gay person elected mayor of a large US city Saturday. Houston is the fourth largest city in the country. Congratulations to Ms. Parker – and to the voters of Houston. [...] The Fifth District Republican Committee has chosen a primary as the method of selecting their nominee against Rep. Tom Perriello, Janelle Rucker writes in the Roanoke Times. It was a 19-13 vote. That’s a significant blow for the backers of basically all of the candidates but Sen. Robert Hurt [...]
By a vote of 19 in favor and 13 against, Virginia’s 5th District Republican Committee has chosen to select their 2010 Congressional candidate via a state-run primary election.
This decision likely will be controversial as six of the seven announced GOP 5th District candidates recently issued a joint statement requesting [...]
In both the political and blogger insder end-of-year polls by the National Journal, Republican Whip Eric Cantor and Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell are both shown to have a bright future for the GOP.
According to the Political Insider’s poll, Cantor is seen as the congressman most-admired and [...]
Council members Team Dave Snyder and Nader Baroukh were forced on Friday afternoon to reveal their plans to hold a citywide referendum within the next sixty (60) days on whether or not to move local elections to November. A council resolution calling for an emergency advisory [...]
Samantha Rucker, the GOP-endorsed candidate for Mason District School Board is having a fundraiser with Governor-Elect Bob McDonnell next friday!
Click here for more info. [...] 
A couple of high-ranking Webb for Senate '06 alumni are now working an Alabama gubernatorial campaign.
