Any member of city council who ran on a platform of transparency and open government - that’s every damn one of them - should vote to conduct the public’s business in the open tonight. No closed-door sessions.
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Any member of city council who ran on a platform of transparency and open government - that’s every damn one of them - should vote to conduct the public’s business in the open tonight. No closed-door sessions.
Perhaps if the police began ticketing people along the resort strip for nuisance violations like drunk in public, urinating in public, disorderly conduct, vandalism, and even littering it might send a message that all are welcome in Virginia Beach - as long as you can behave yourself.
Apparently there were at least three separate shooting incidents Friday. Fistfights ended in tragedy when hoodlums pulled out their pieces and began shooting at each other. Sounds more like gangbangers than ordinary, decent disturbing-the-peace types.
In many ways, Virginia Beach with 450,000 residents really is just a small town. Or a series of small towns an neighborhoods, linked together. Everyone here either knew Preston Midgett or know OF him.
After months of kowtowing to the local teachers’ union, which is doing its best to keep classrooms closed, Aaron Spence belatedly joined the common sense, get-the-kids-back-in-class lobby.
Footage circulating on social media shows a Lynnhaven Mall security guard on the ground, being pummeled by one of the punks.