Archive for March, 2011

The long journey throughout the last 12 years from the first questions about the old Pavilion to the current decision to proceed with a headquarters hotel for a convention center has been an especially devious journey. The trek began in the late 1990s and has included a number of decision points all of which puts the Virginia Beach City Council in a position, by spending more citizens money, to build the headquarters hotel for the convention center. Read the rest of this entry »

Wow! A huge $238 million backlog of storm water projects; we’re on course for failure; and a potential deep hole that we can’t get out of. Read the rest of this entry »

There they go again. Our Virginia Beach City Council, as reported by the Virginian-Pilot March 2^nd, continues to complain that “its too early in the city’s budget process to know” how much to take from the school system and also that, “we don’t know where the city of Virginia Beach is at the moment.” Read the rest of this entry »