Author: Coy Barefoot

Rajiv Chandrasekaran is an assistant managing editor of the Washington Post. He was promoted to that position after covering the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for the Post. Chandrasekaran has turned his experience as Baghdad bureau chief into the book Imperial Life in the Emerald City. “I started out my career at the Washington Post covering Northern Virginia and actually well into Central Virginia, and it’s amazing how life can take you from the wonderful hills of the Virginia piedmont to the deserts of Iraq,” says Chandrasekaran on the October 23rd edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now with Coy Barefoot. The book describes what life has been like for those living inside the Green Zone, the walled enclave within Baghdad where Coalition and U.S forces live. Chandrasekaran traces how the initial enthusiam after the invasion began to fade as the Coalition Provisional Authority imposed policies that may have been counterproductive. Instead of sending the “best and brightest” to rebuild the country, he says the “loyal and the willing” were sent instead.

Bob Gibson of the Charlottesville Daily Progress joins Coy Barefoot on the October 23rd edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss the perils of people seeking out news that agrees only with their pre-existing worldviews. They also discuss a trend towards entrenched partisanship in Richmond, as well as the upcoming election.

In today’s Progress, Gibson writes about the latest poll results in which George Allen has a four-point lead over challenger Jim Webb, with a four-point margin of error.

On October 31st, Gibson will serve as moderator for a radio debate between candidates in the Fifth Congressional District race, to be held on WVTF Public Radio. We’ll also have the debate posted here later that evening.
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Kent Willis of the Virginia ACLU joins Coy Barefoot on the October 20th edition of WINA’s Charlottesville-Right Now to talk about a recent report from the group Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty report called Equal Justice and Fair Play. The report is the third major study of how the death penalty is administered in Virginia, and has been endorsed by the ACLU.

“What this report does is give a blueprint for legislators on how to fix it,” says Willis. The report compares Virginia’s system with that of Illinois, where a moratorium was placed on the death penalty in 2000 following the exoneration of 13 inmates on death row. In 2002, a commission issued 85 recommendation to fix Illinois’ system. The new VADP report says Virginia only satisfies 12 of these fixes.

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Dana Fisher is an assistant professor of sociology at Columbia University. She’s the author of Activism, Inc: How the Outsourcing of Grassroots Campaigns is Strangling Progressive Politics in America. In the book, Fisher examines the role of the professional political canvasser. She’s a guest on the October 11th edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now, and talks about how the institutionalization of activism is defeating the point of democracy.

“What you have is a bunch of young people working for one office who wear a different t-shirt on a different day, and say a different script on a different day to raise money for a different cause,” says Fisher. Read more on Fisher’s work in a recent American Prospect article. The organization Fisher profiles in the book has set up a website to counter her argument.

Preston Bryant is the Secretary of Natural Resources for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Bryant has spent this week in the Shenandoah Valley, where he says the leaves are beautiful. He came on the October 19th edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to talk with Coy Barefoot about the future of coal production in Virginia.

Paul Rice is the deputy warden at the Botetourt Correctional Facility near Roanoke. He chatted with Coy Barefoot on the October 18th edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now. The 2006 Class of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership visited the facility recently, so Coy invited Mr. Rice on the program to discuss the state of Virginia’s prisons.

CharlottesvilleGuv,!vDjnjRight Now is broadcast live Monday through Friday on NewsRadio 1070 WINA from 4 to 6pm. Best-selling author and historian Coy Barefoot is the host and producer. To participate in the program, you can call 434-977-1070. Coy can be reached at barefoot@wina.com.

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Meredith Gunter is the outreach specialist with the Demographics and Workforce Section at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. Gunter joins Coy on the October 13th edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to talk about the population milestone crossed in the United States. As of this past Tuesday, the U.S. Census bureau lists the population as being over 300,000,000 people. Gunter’s unit sponsored a major conference on the topic last week.

CharlottesvilleGuv,!vDjnjRight Now is broadcast live Monday through Friday on NewsRadio 1070 WINA from 4 to 6pm. Best-selling author and historian Coy Barefoot is the host and producer. To participate in the program, you can call 434-977-1070. Coy can be reached at barefoot@wina.com.

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Many service clubs are active in Charlottesville, and leaders from three of them got the chance to describe just what they do on the October 12th edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now with Coy Barefoot.

Phillip Day is the new director of the Kiwanis Club of Charlottesville. Duane Gran is with the Rotary Club of Charlottesville. Don Colley is President of the Charlottesville Host Lions Club.

Duane Gran wrote about the appearance on his website.

CharlottesvilleGuv,!vDjnjRight Now is broadcast live Monday through Friday on NewsRadio 1070 WINA from 4 to 6pm. Best-selling author and historian Coy Barefoot is the host and producer. To participate in the program, you can call 434-977-1070. Coy can be reached at barefoot@wina.com.

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Bill Howell is the Speaker of the Virginia General Assembly. He called in from the road to talk with Coy Barefoot on the Thursday, October 12th edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now. Coy asked the Speaker for his thoughts on the special session to deal with transportation issues.

“I was disappointed we were not able to accomplish more,” says Howell. Howell says the state needs a three-pronged approach to solve gridlock, and he discusses the next steps as members of the General Assembly prepare to meet again in January.

CharlottesvilleGuv,!vDjnjRight Now is broadcast live Monday through Friday on NewsRadio 1070 WINA from 4 to 6pm. Best-selling author and historian Coy Barefoot is the host and producer. To participate in the program, you can call 434-977-1070. Coy can be reached at barefoot@wina.com.

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