Incumbent first-term Democratic Del. Steve Shannon (VA 35th) is up against Republican challenger Jim Hyland for the 35th district in the Virginia House of Delegates. The 35th district includes the Town of Vienna and part of Fairfax County (including Oakton and Dunn Loring).
Fairfax County Bond Referendum, 2005
Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) is a very large school system. Sporting over 164,000 enrolled students, it is the largest system in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the twelfth largest in the United States. FCPS has over 200 schools—136 elementary, 22 middle, 4 secondary, 24 high, and 12 special education centers. The system has nearly 22,000 employees, 1,500 school busses, and (for FY2006) an operating budget of nearly 2 billion dollars.
Site Converted from Mambo to Joomla
There was some downtime this evening as I converted Off on a Tangent’s content management system from Mambo to Joomla. Joomla is a fork of the Mambo project which is developed by the same team that had previously developed Mambo. I consider Joomla 1.0 the most legitimate upgrade path from Mambo 4.5.2 (as opposed to the Mambo Foundation/Miro International releases that will continue under the Mambo name).
Bush Nominates Roberts for Chief Justice
President George W. Bush (R) today nominated John Roberts Jr. to become the next Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court following the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Roberts had previously been nominated to fill an associate justice vacancy left by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who announced her retirement in July. Roberts’s Senate confirmation hearings for that position were originally scheduled to begin tomorrow, and he was expected to be confirmed.
Chief Justice Rehnquist Dies
William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, died Saturday evening from complications related to thyroid cancer. Rehnquist has been on the Supreme Court since 1972 and was nominated to become Chief Justice by President Ronald Reagan in 1986. In 1999, he became only the second Chief Justice to preside over a presidential impeachment hearing. He was 80.
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.