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Danville City Council rejects anti-uranium mining resolution

Danville City Council is the latest governing board to reject an attempt at banning something that’s not even legal already. Strike FOUR! Now just go away, please.

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Danville City Council Meeting – (2/16) – LIVE!

Click the cutline to go to tonight’s commentary…

Danville City Council Race – Update #2

Last Update: Danville City Council Race – Update #1

We’ve had a few surprises but the race picture is getting clearer. Somewhat.

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The TEA parties do their own 5th District Food Chain.

Everybody’s getting in the Food Chain game!

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Gary Miller’s re-election kickoff speech

Dr. Gary Miller announced his bid for re-election to Danville’s City Council on Wednesday, and SouthsideCentral is glad to give you the full text of his speech.

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Scare the hell out of them!

Want a good (but underhanded) tactic to make sure your upcoming Pittsylvania County Sheriff’s Office budget isn’t cut severely?

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UPDATED: Jeff Clark starts Independent campaign for 5th District House seat

The field gets even more crowded. Catherine Amos, reporter with the Danville Register & Bee, will have an article on this in Wednesday’s newspaper.

UPADTE: The story’s online now.

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LIVE! – Danville City Council Meeting (2/2)

Click the cutline for commentary on tonight’s Danville City Council meeting.

UPDATED: Food Chain! – 5th District Candidates

We made it six days without a political article, so let’s get everybody upset at us with our first “Food Chain!” that ranks the candidates for Virginia’s Republican nomination for the 5th district.

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Let’s recap Friday’s Tea Party Debate

Five of the six candidates for the 5th District Republican nomination met in Charlottesville last night. So what happened, who won and who lost?

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Tea Party 5th District Debate – LIVE!

Editor’s note: The debate is over, but you can still read the comments after the cutline. We’ll try and get an article recapping this debate later tonight.

Watch it live at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nbc29 , and comment on it here LIVE!

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Virgil’s starting to get that itch?

And in this case, Tom Perriello has to be pleased.

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Danville City Council Race – Update #1

Four Danville City Council seats will be up for grabs on May 4th. Since the Register & Bee has started the ball rolling with an article about the race, let’s start drilling down into some scenarios and play with some speculation.

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Photos from today’s Governor’s Inauguration!

Kim White, Halifax County’s Commonwealth’s Attorney, is LIVE! at Bob McDonnell’s inauguration at Richmond and she’s sent in some great photos! We hope you enjoy looking at them. Thanks, Kim!

UPDATE: Video now included.

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“So that happened” down in South Hill…

Ever seen the movie “Vantage Point”? It tells a story from the viewpoints of multiple people, each with their own motivations. If you’d like to see a local version of “Vantage Point”, it happened this week in South Hill during a Q&A session with the seven candidates for the Republican 5th District nomination. Let’s try […]

McPadden steps out of the clown car and into contention

Mike McPadden (Republican candidate for the 5th District nomination) was in Danville on Friday night. Gotta admit, I was pleasantly surprised at his professionalism and knowledge.

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Mike McPadden visits Danville on Friday night

Mike McPadden, one of the candidates for the Republican 5th District nomination, will be in Danville on Friday night. SouthsideCentral hopes to be there LIVE!

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Joe The Plumber is checking people out by using an FBI friend?!

Or so says Bill Hay…

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PhotoCentral: Joe the Plumber visits Danville

Our thanks to the awesome Gracie Gunnell for getting these photos!

Laurence Verga, a candidate for the 5th District Republican nomination, hired out the guy known as “Joe the Plumber” to come campaign for him. They made an appearance at Danville’s Mary’s Diner at 9 AM today. Here are some photos from the event.

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Whitt Clement makes some more money off of Southside!

He might have bailed out of Danville, but he’s still getting rich off of Martinsville.

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Something to make our paranoid friends feel better.

It’s almost General Assembly time, so that means we’ve already got bills prefiled. This one’s a doozy!

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We’ve got overtime on the “15 minutes of fame” clock!

Remember “Joe The Plumber”? He’s coming to Virginia to support a 5th District Candidate. This article is brought to you by the “We Can’t Make This Crap Up” Department.

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Here’s another shot at the Danville teapartiers.

This Register & Bee editorial says exactly what we’ve been thinking…

There’s a new blog about the 5th District!

Take a look at the newest addition to the list of blogs that are focusing on Virginia’s 5th Congressional District.

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What’s that up in the sky?

A stupid idea.