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Danville City Council Race – Incumbent Overview

It’s that time again. SouthsideCentral will be covering the Danville City Council race throughout the duration and will wrap it up with our endorsements before election day. Our first update will introduce the field then we’ll take a look at the incumbents and their strengths,  weaknesses and a general opinion of them at this early stage of the campaign. We’ll do the same thing for the challengers in the next article. Let’s get it started.


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Thumbs! (3/20/14)

Hey you. Wanna see my “Thumbs!” ?


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The Latest (Race) Card Trick

Here we go again. Ugh.


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Mark Warner wants my money…

…and he ain’t getting it. I hate fundraising emails.


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LIVE! at the DEQ Coal Ash update meeting (3/18/14)

Not only do we have the happenings from the DEQ coal ash spill update meeting, we’ve also got tonight’s Danville City Council meeting highlights!


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With a gun in my hand…

I’ve got a story to tell. I was scared for my life last night.


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Danville United LIVE! (3/6/14)

here’s our :IVE! recap of what happened at the last Danville United meeting.


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Danville City Council LIVE! (3/4/14)

We’re LIVE! Danville City Hall. Here’s the recap of what happened.

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LIVE! at the “How to be a candidate” workshop

The Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce helps the region again. We’re LIVE! at the Institute.


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Danville City Council LIVE! (2/18/14)

SouthsideCentral is back doing LIVE! coverage. Here’s the rundown from the latest Danville City Council meeting…


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Selective environmental outrage?

In the Southside region, it’s socially acceptable to bash the hell out of Duke Energy right now for the coal ash spill. Where’s the environmentalist outrage to a company that’s leaked out 15,000 gallons of concentrated sulfuric acid into a river?


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Bible support rally postponed by Act Of God.

I’ve got a Bucket O’ Irony for you today.


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“We haven’t ruled out Godzilla, either.”

This is the location where my face and my palm meet.


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Recap: LIVE! at Danville’s EPA meeting

Here you go. I’ve edited the LIVE! feed so that you can view our comments & photos from the start of the meeting until time ran out.


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LIVE! coverage of the EPA’s coal ash meeting in Danville tonight.

We’ve got the power, we’ve got the technology.We’ll see you at Danville’s City Hall at 6:30 PM and here on SouthsideCentral.


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The law doesn’t apply to me.

Or something like that. Hoo boy, it’s “Make Your Own Grand Jury” over in Rockingham County, NC.


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Happy Trails, Big Chair!

This is what happens when you dry up, people…


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It all works out in the end…

He saved the taxpayers a lot of money and he was remorseful for his murders. What a happy ending. Wait, what?


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“Health Reasons”, my butt.

We’ve got belated Happy Trails for another Southside school superintendent that we had been following. Roger Morris is retiring for “health reasons”. Riiiiiight.


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Time Machine: Is he still missing?

Normally when we hop in the SouthsideCentral Time Machine, we go back at least a few years. Not today, kids. We’re going back about two months to a Halifax County missing person search that seems to have gone missing itself…


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The man who’s not resigning has resigned.

Earl Womack’s adventure of resigning his job but not resigning his elected position then resigning that one too slipped under my radar for a while. Let’s fix that now…


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Let’s talk about the grocery store petition drive…

I like good ideas that have a decent chance of working but this ain’t one of ’em. “Let’s talk” about it…


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Do as I say…

Oh, this is rich…


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Let’s talk about the coal ash spill…

It’ s another case of actual reality having to take precedence before virtual reality, but SouthsideCentral rolls on…

As most people know, there was a spill of coal ash from a Duke Energy power plant near Eden, NC. The coal ash and related waste spilled into the Dan River and has been making its way down. There’s been a lot of talk about it so let’s talk about it some more in SouthsideCentral style…


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Let’s talk about Bonner middle school’s problems…

During our hiatus, the crap hit the fan once some teachers started talking about the problems that have been happening at Danville’s Bonner Middle School. The Register & Bee newspaper did an excellent job at investigative reporting in a series of articles, and the school system has been dancing around with the resolution to the disciplinary nightmare. Late this afternoon, the Danville School Board released a statement on this. Let’s take a look at it and get SouthsideCentral’s take on what’s going on…


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