The image above is the ninth district as seen by the 2011 edition of the National Land Cover Database (you can zoom in to explore this data at http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=e4c45b7769af40d280c1a74208662c9d — note: it takes a moment to load all layers) Our district is larger than New Jersey. In the image above: The red is our roads and cities. The […]
Elections will be held tomorrow (May 1) in Pulaski and Dublin. On the ballot will be candidates for Mayor (Pulaski) and Town Council (Pulaski and Dublin). Full sample ballots for both can be found at the Pulaski County Registrar’s website (http://www.pulaskicounty.org/Registrar.html). In Pulaski, David Clark is running unopposed for mayor and 5 candidates are running […]
Tomorrow, both major parties will select their nominees for November’s Gubernatorial race. Primary elections may seem unexciting, and are usually low turnout events, but they are our chance to express our thoughts on the direction of our parties and ensure we have qualified candidates on both sides in the fall. It is our civic duty […]
Earlier this month the Town of Pulaski held a public meeting where the NRV Regional Commission and a design firm presented a proposal for a Virginia Community Development Block Grant (CDBG). The CDBG program is administered by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development, and funded by the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)‘s CDBG program. The particular grant […]
This post is the first in a series of blog posts which will attempt to identify barriers to access to broadband Internet and other technologies vital in today’s economy. In 2011, my soon to be wife and I decided to move back to her home town here in Pulaski. I had a good job with a government […]
We tend to think that the world around us exists in the colors we perceive based on the photo-receptors in our eyes responding most strongly to red, green, and blue light, and our brain combining those impulses in a particular way. But consider an image through an infrared scanner or night vision goggles, and you get an […]
As lovers of the Appalachian mountains in which we live, it is very disturbing to hear about the mountaintop removal operations to extract coal from beneath their peaks. But unless you happen to live in the directly affected communities, it may be hard to see the impact. Even in the affected communities, the full physical […]
