Yikes! We missed a few weeks worth of QuickHits, so we’ll get back on track. Let’s take a look at some of the stories that have caught my eye over the last week or so.
If it’s QuickHits, there’s a Big Board!
- Happy Trails, Kevin Lewis! The Martinsville High School band director who went on administrative leave resigned with no reasons specified. Hmm. Indeed.
- A Chinese furniture company that received Tobacco Commission money is having early troubles getting started. Sounds familiar, eh?
- An ex-principal files a $5.5 million defamation lawsuit against the ex-superintendent of Patrick County Schools and the school board.
- If Brookneal’s local government doesn’t work something out, they’re going to run a new vineyard business out or town.
- Animals poop. Sometimes the water runoff from that poop makes parts of Smith Mountain Lake test positive for high amounts of E. coli bacteria.
- Going to FloydFest this year and want a comfortable place to spend the nights? Ferrum College has an idea for you.
- Richard Moore catches the Reidsville Review in another funny mistake.
- I’m not sure which quote I like best, so I’ll use them all. “We’re just a bunch of rednecks who like to have a good time”, “Lady Liberty wore on her head a crown fashioned from of box of Bud Light” or “That’s the most pitiful one they’ve ever had.”
And that’s a quite full Big Board of QuickHits! We’ve got more coming up on SouthsideCentral.
If we want to play the boat to never card on some China furniture startup, we need to talk about the medical tower project that plain old US citizens were supposed to deliver that hasn’t happened.
I’m still very confident that project will get underway. There was a long delay is getting the tax credits they needed to make it work. Also, Danville Regional Medical Center wants Hermann & Friends out of their existing building so that they can proceed with their own plans for there.
Isn’t this one of the many projects not meeting its performance agreement with some of its funding?
If so, there would be plenty of time left on its clock. I don’t really think there were any significant job creations as it is/was going to be a relocation of a lot of doctors’ offices.
Lee,
What medical tower project are you referencing? Is it the old Dan River Research building?
The honest answer to all of these questions is this: From 1990 to today, Virginia’s population has seen 30%+population growth. Danville-Pittsylvania County had a population of about 109K in 1990. Today? About 105K. Guilford County, NC has experienced 40%+ growth in the same period.
Point being: The people of Danville have been fed a deluge of misinformation for years. Population stats aren’t perfect, but they’re usually correlated with economic growth/development. One key aspect of the misinformation is “comparisons.” You see a lot of “comps” with Martinsville b/c it makes Danville look good. But when you look at our state or the city where the most Danvillians visit (Greensboro), the numbers are breathtakingly bad.
Can we see a show of right hand / arm to see Hermann get his office moved. I won’t raise mine no time soon.