Happy Fall. Open thread for the week. I am going to ask the contributors to not get in to calling each other names. This is my favorite season.
The next couple of days will not be fall-like. Heat wave. I thought we were through with that heat crap.
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Laf, I checked my souces and he wasn’t handing out contracts, he was preparing them. The contracts weren’t the regular type. He should have worked through the school board end, not crossed over to appeal to Peacor IMHO.
I don’t know why that part is open. Maybe something solar. I don’t like the catwalk. It reminds me of being in the Luxor. I have horrible acrophobia. However, they didn’t build it with my phobias in mind.
Architecture in this county has never been a strong point. How about those open air dumb bell shaped schools? Baldwin, Loch Lomond, Westgate, Elizabeth Vaughn etc. What a totally dumb design….open air in Virginia. Then there were the Sudley type open concepts that even went up to high schools like OP and SJSH. arrggghhhh. Who ever talked people into buying into that waste of money should be drawn and quartered. Schools without walls my ……you know what!!!
My rant is over…..I think it was all to save money at a time when the county was growing by leaps and bounds.
Most of the people in my area have stopped taking the WaPo for
a number of reasons – political views, cost etc., but I was Old School
enough to still like a “hard copy” (yes, I knew that is bad for forest, etc.),
but this morning’s front page with Brewer Creek Place being labeled a “Manassas
neigborhood” was it — BCP is miles inside Prince William County.
The WaPo’s policy of labeling anything negative within 25 miles as “Manassas”
– while at the same time labeling anything positive in the same
area as “Prince William County” or “Gainesville” has pushed me over the edge.
I stayed when they killed Book World and as the Sunday Magazine
tumbled down hill in quality, but this was the tilting point.
Big Dog,
In case you haven’t notice the shining city on the hill is situated a few miles in the county. Brewer Creek Place has a Manassas address in PWC. It really is a shame that a man with your position chooses to have a temper tantrem each and everytime a county address has a Manassas address. I hope your fellow citizens of the city don’t share your utter disdain for those Manassas people in the county. Last time I checked a map the Manassas Battlefields were in the county. Do you really not want the city associated with that piece of history? I think not. Especially after the city so graciously handed tax payer money over to Civil War Events non-profit for next year’s Sesquicentennial Commemoration.
I went to two open concept class schools. What a joke they were. There was nothing like sitting in your foreign language hearing four different languages being taught. I have no earthly idea why that type of school was ever considered. Then after decades of those schools, they finally have closed the classrooms. They now have four walls and a door. Now, there’s a novel concept a four walled classroom. Geesh. The last year my daughter was at Sudley she finally had a “real” classroom. I can’t believe it took two generations of students before the schools finally decided to change the poorly designed open concept classes.
Lafayette, The Issue about having a Manassas address cracks me up. Anytime Manassas is mentioned, I usually hear jokes. I think the people that live in Gainesville, Nokesville, Haymarket, Catharpin, Bristow have better luck escaping the jokes!!! LOL! 🙂
RedDawn,
I know the Manassas address issue cracks you up. Especially since there are some parts of the county that share the same zip code of 20110 with the City of Manassas. I believe Big Dog’s been around long enough to remember when we all shared the almighty 22110 zip. I still have to watch myself that I don’t use our old zip code.
Yes, the good ole 22110. Too funny 🙂
Would that be the 22110 old zip? I forget over once in a while.
Big Dog, I am sorry about book world too. That was a real loss. Remember the contest they used to have weekly? Its been 25 years…..
I think your fight is with the post office rather than everyone else. I grew up in Charlottesville, in the city. We moved away for about 5 years and came back. I lived out Rio Road most of the time and that was in the county. I still lived in Charlottesville. Unless you live far enough out to be picked up by another community, you live in the top the PO assigns you, even if not in the city limits.
When the reporters do the stories, they check out the listing. They cannot be expected to know where the boundaries are.
After seeing that agenda item and another item I can’t comment on yet, I am about ready to stay out of the city other than going to my chiropractor. I certainly won’t shop there. I might have to give up city shrimp too. It all depends on what happens at Fall Festival. Moonhowlings will be taking names….
Do you remember the 361, 368, 369 then later came the 330, 331 & 257? 🙂 lol
Yes. I also remember when we didn’t have to dial 703 first.
I would still like to know what that agenda item regarding the women’s clinic is all about.
I certainly hope the rest of the City Council is not going to follow Mr. Aveni’s lead and start harassing a clinic that has been there 21 years. Something else to sue the City over?
Moon,
The text is too long to post here. If you look at the link to the agenda provided below you will see the documents. Go to page 121-123. You can read with your own two eyes.
I plan to be at the Fall Festival as usual for fun. Are you saying I’m going to have to put on the Rover Reporter hat for the event? 😉
I hate dialing the 703. Ah, back when we were just a speck on the Metro area map. My, my, how times have changed.
Duh!! And the link is here.
http://www.manassascity.org/archives/42/Agenda%20Packet%20-%20September%2027,%202010.pdf
M-H, – Even an old Luddite like me has a GPS system. Any reporter who
isn’t using one or at least able to read a simple map shouldn’t be writing for a
major paper. The city boundaries are obvious.
– Manassas is only 10 square miles in size and with a population
less than 10% of PWC. We have enough of our own challeges without
thoughtless people adding numerous PWC ones. I don’t like it, but can live
with “near Manassas”. Have been asked numerous questions by individuals
like “When is Manassas going to do something about the crime in Coverstone?”
and when told it isn’t in the city, the reply often comes back “the paper says it is!”.
– Who?, What?, When?, WHERE?, and How? are the basis of an accurate
news story.
Yes Ma’am. @ Lafayette. I would like some names por favor. Have that Roving Reporter hat ready.
Big Dog, I think it is that way everywhere. The average person doesn’t know or care that Woodbridge is not a city and Manassas is. Correct them and move on. I would worry more about being accused of being MPC.
RIGHT ON!!
Lafayette, The resolution you reference refers an issue to
the state level – where it belongs. AG Cooch has opined that the VIRGINIA
Health Deptartment (despite what some apparently think, Manassas City
government doesn’t include a Health Dept.) has the responsibility
of inspecting clinics that perform first trimester abortions and the AG’s
opinion is now before Gov. McDonnell. The resolution before council
Monday is to support the AG and ask the Gov. to act. Suggest you read
the resolution – it can be found on the Manassas website.
Big Dog,
It was Censoredbybvbl and Moon that brought up that issue. I just provided the information. See Moon’s comments above and censored’s on the prior page. I addressed(pun intended) a different question to you.
Chris
Is this not the city’s website I provided the information to?
@Big Dog
M-H, Of course the person in Woodbridge doesn’t care, or Dale City,
or Lake Ridge, or Gainesville, etc. – those are all areas of PWC,
not independent cities or even incorporated towns. Why should they care?
You have it Lafayette.
Need a blog break — the Redskins have already started!
It was Censored and I who asked the question.
I am not familiar with the Manassas website. I am not a resident of the City. Do I need a special handshake to get in?
So let me see if I understand it right, the Council will vote on whether to support the AG?
I certainly hope the City decides not to touch that one with a ten foot pole. That also is a legal business that has been there for 21 years. I don’t see the point in going after a legal business when it can ultimately get the City sued.
Corey is looking better and better, even though he got up in an unrelated gathering and started babbling about ended the scourge of abortion. I was rather embarrassed by THAT behavior…..
Are we doing this on the say-so of the woman who feels it appropriate to get up before the council and tell everyone else what to do when she can’t handle her own life or kids? I thought that was just outrageous. Some folks ought to just keep a low profile. The next thing we know we’ll have Buck Carter coming along trying to be father of the year.
I’m tuned into the Skins too. Shall we say to be continued? 🙂
Let’s go Skins!! My heart can NOT another week of last minute games.
Big Dog, why doesn’t the City Council mind its own business when it comes to women’s reproductive rights? Why not let the State attempt to handle that issue? Why the “rah, rah, sic ’em” attitude? That clinic has been there for a couple decades. If Marc Aveni doesn’t like it, he and his family don’t have to use it.
I’m old enough to pre-date Roe v. Wade. I know women will have illegal and unsafe abortions. I’ve never availed myself of a clinic such as this, but I’d like for the services to be available to others who may need it.
If your – or more appropriately, Marc Aveni’s – agenda is safety, I’d like to see statistics which show there are problems there. Show that it doesn’t meet state standards already.
It appears to me that the City is trying to take a lead on this issue. What other jurisdictions have made similar requests of the Commonwealth?
Since I’ve found it impossible to c & p from the City’s website and I’m a slow typist, just what does this snippet entail:
“..,and to require the accurate reporting of abortions figures to health officials.”
Just what do these figures entail? Names?
I hope you’re also looking at dental clinics, allergists’ offices, dialysis (sp?) centers, etc.
It looks as though it’s good-bye Okra’s, good-bye Social Butterfly, good-bye antique shops, Wellington Giant, Panera’s, Shopper’s Food, Rice’s, Tony’s Pizza, Aldi’s, City Tavern, City Square, and the rest. Wah! I’ll miss you but you can be replaced.
Decided to beat the heat and head to the shore this weekend:) Went to the Irish Festival in Wild Wood, NJ. What a great party!
Censored, where are you getting the information from?
I give up a hair stylist and shrimp at City Tavern. That I will miss. I might make an exception and buy Christmas gifts at KK’s.
DB, are you going to be watching your neighbors on MTV2 tonight?
M-h, from Lafayette’s link. It’s item 121 or 122 – quite a ways down the agenda.
Ah I found that. I was thinking it was something else.
Why are they getting involved in that?
@Lafayette
Didn’t have to wait to the last minute this time!