http://www.seniorstatesmen.org Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:01:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Congressional Candidates Showcase Forum is a biennial event sponsored by the Senior Statesmen of Virginia. This year, two candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives, Democratic incumbent Tom Perriello and Independent challenger Jeffrey Clark spoke at the event. Republican challenger Robert Hurt declined the SSV’s invitation to attend. The event ... http://www.seniorstatesmen.org/2010/08/12/fifth-congressional-district-candidates-showcase/ Robert McGrath moved to Charlottesville in 2007 after retiring from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. For almost a decade before retirement he held concurrent positions as Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and also Vice President for Brookhaven National Laboratory ... http://www.seniorstatesmen.org/2010/06/07/public-perception-and-science-of-climate-change/ [caption id="attachment_87" align="alignleft" width="97" caption="Isaac Wood"][/caption] Isaac Wood, House Race Editor for Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, previewed the 2010 midterm elections for Congress that will take place in November.  Mr Wood spoke at our May 12, 2010 meeting. The meeting was ... http://www.seniorstatesmen.org/2010/05/06/preview-of-the-2010-midterm-congressional-elections/ Delegates Rob Bell and David Toscano provided their perspectives on the issues that came before the 2010 legislature. They spoke at the April 14, 2010 meeting of the Senior Statesmen of Virginia.  The program was moderated by SSV Vice President Sue Liberman. Rob Bell was an honors graduate of ... http://www.seniorstatesmen.org/2010/04/22/delegates-rob-bell-and-david-toscano-the-2010-general-assembly-session/ Ann Mallek, chairman of the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors, and Dave Norris, mayor of the City of Charlottesville spoke at the March 10, 2010 meeting of the Senior Statesmen of Virginia held at The Charlottesville Senior Center. Following brief opening remarks by the participants, questions were taken from the ... http://www.seniorstatesmen.org/2010/03/15/the-state-of-the-city-and-county/ [caption id="attachment_75" align="alignleft" width="135" caption="Sally Thomas"][/caption] Sally Thomas has represented the Samuel Miller district since 1994 when she first won election to the board in 1993 as an independent write-in candidate over Carter Myers by a margin of 192 votes. In all elections since (1997, 2001 and 2005), she has run ... http://www.seniorstatesmen.org/2010/01/18/sally-thomas-16-years-on-the-albemarle-county-board-of-supervisors/ [caption id="attachment_73" align="alignleft" width="130" caption="Gene Ecton Davis"][/caption] On the second Wednesday of each month, the Senior Statesmen of Virginia present outstanding speakers of local and regional interest. In December, they met to reflect on the past and future of their organization. SSV founding member and past president Gene Ecton Davis spoke at ... http://www.seniorstatesmen.org/2009/12/19/a-history-of-the-senior-statesmen-of-virginia/ Billie Campbell Billie Campbell, chief operating officer for the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission (TJPDC), spoke at our November 11, 2009 meeting. The TJPDC is one of 21 planning district commissions in Virginia established by the General Assembly under the Virginia Area Development Act in 1969. TJPDC has six member jurisdictions: ... http://www.seniorstatesmen.org/2009/11/18/the-thomas-jefferson-planning-district-commission/ On October 14th, the Senior Statesmen of Virginia and the Charlottesville Senior Center cosponsored a candidates forum featuring the candidates for the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors: Jack Jouett District: incumbent Dennis Rooker (I); Rio District: incumbent David Slutzky (D), and challenger Rodney Thomas (R); Samuel Miller District: Madison Cummings ... http://www.seniorstatesmen.org/2009/10/18/candidates-forum-albemarle-county-board-of-supervisors/ Laura Feldman Laura Feldman could be termed a "Washington Insider." As a long-term organizer for the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, the leading nonpartisan advocacy group in the country for Social Security and Medicare, she has expert knowledge on the issue of health care reform, how it will ... http://www.seniorstatesmen.org/2009/09/12/a-view-from-the-hill-social-security-and-medicare-where-from-here/