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Chesapeake went for Obama?!?! I guess that's what all the conservative parents get for sending all 4 children to liberal universities, at least that's my explanation.

So Nye beats Drake... I wouldn't vote for either of them.

Is the military's problem, as well as the port's, that should there be any attack on a bridge, it could close off access to open ocean? The bridge in the rendering looked like a cable-stayed bridge, I don't know if that's classified as like a subset of suspension bridges or the evolution of the suspension bridge. Maybe our resident engineers could tell us... Either way, I think those are the coolest looking things!

That would just move the problem around instead of fixing it. In a perfect world both the third crossing and a major HRBT expansion would have taken place already. America's infrastructure... just another reason I'm voting for Obama.

I've always thought a bridge would be great around here. Are they trying to put this project in place of the 'third crossing'?

The District at ODU It's the housing development that was rumored to be going up. Nearly a 1000 new apartments for only ODU students.

I sat down and made a lot of changes to the ODU wiki a while ago, that picture was one of them. Actually I stole the picture from Clark Nexsen, and maybe violated the copyright... Shhhh.

The BOV also suspended the search for a new president...

Although I was hoping for a big announcement, Obama's being on the offense last night was a real crowd-pleaser. He's finally sticking it to McCain over the economy. And he did it all without being abrasive. It was very smooth, comedic, and to the point. And I want to personally give a shout-out to the Ron Paul people who were the only supporters who had the will to come out and support their candidate and even got to pose a question to Obama. It was nice to see supporters who actually wanted a discussion and not to throw around some smears or attacks. Bravo! Whenever McCain comes to town I'd like to go to one of his events to see how his supporters behave. It would be interesting research.

I know I'm not the only Obama supporter here, so who got their tickets for the town hall?

I think there's also a touristy/local art thing going on too that many don't ever move away from. My aunt, before she passed, was a local painter but all she painted was water scenes. And frankly if you had seen one, you had seen them all. It would be nice if local experimentally creative people had a place to showcase their talent (maybe Tel could create a virtual space) and a more receptive audience.

I think your post is a bit misguided. Creativity isn't linked to monetary values or high tastes, and to insinuate that those who are critical are somehow cheap is "stupid and uninformed".

Yea I meant the ones that move on to the big-time. No doubt these people are creative, they just choose to leave for success rather than stay and benefit the local scene. If they decided to use their clout and money to do something big-time here, like a hip-hop version of SxSW, that would great. It would also be a great thing for hip-hop, which in my opinion needs a major overhaul.

Ha! That was the movie alright. It was obviously meant to leave you thinking one way, but unless they left out a lot of facts I agreed with the city on changing the size of the lots and Redford's protecting the spring. I thought there could have been some kind of compromise there. I didn't quite get why Bradley went bankrupt though? So what ever happened? You can PM me to keep vdogg happy...

I think he's onto something too. This reminded me of a video from the TED talks about how horrible architecture has run amok. Anyway, the lecturer showed a picture of a standard fugly suburban house, 4 front windows, front door, brick facade, and vinyl sides and back. He asked the audience what it said about the people who lived there, and the answer he gave was "We're normal." Meanwhile everyone who lives there is batsh*t insane, popping pills and the like. Then you look at our area, it's practically a sea of suburbs. The creativity is here, it's just locked up behind the culture of "normalcy". IDK, just a Telmenstr rant I guess. My theory falls apart with the successful hip-hop artists from the region, maybe they don't fit the mold. I saw another documentary about Austin and how it was being heavily developed into suburbs... Has Austin always been suburban and then there was an influx of weirdos? I've never been, what's it like?

You can always count on Tel to antagonize people into joining the conversation... keep it up! Welcome Bert!

... and Mayor Holley putting his foot in his mouth.

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Confirming what we already knew, Forbes gives Hampton Roads a low rank in its list of Best Cities for Young Professionals. But hey, at least we made the list.

Two newcomers!!! Welcome gezses and dday!

I've voted twice...