[BJWilliams]

I hate when the site gets blocked because I cant get to my articles that get posted online so I can email them to my mom.

[SuperJon]

Every time its been blocked it has been intentional and for a good reason.

What's the reason for this one? Is it still the comment issue that we've been working on for a while? I admit I didn't read the comments this morning but as of last night I didn't see any problems so something may have happened overnight.

[JDUB]

Too bad they blocked it. I was having fun reading the local idiots comments.

[JDUB]

I don't know why its blocked, but if history repeats itself it won't last too long bc normally the newspaper backs down and a compromise is reached quickly.

[Hold My Own]

There are some very important events taking place in near future...including tonight and allowing comments from those who will continue to hate LU no matter what sway opinions from those that are on the fence could be a legit concern.

[Green Monkey]

Just download Hotspot Shield. It will set up a VPN and then you can get to the News & Advance site.

[Rocketfan]

There are some very important events taking place in near future...including tonight and allowing comments from those who will continue to hate LU no matter what sway opinions from those that are on the fence could be a legit concern.

id love to know how many unique users actually access the comments section of the N&A for that specific story.....I would be willing to be the number is quite low ( less than 250 ). Not to mention at this point, people have made up there mind on LU for better or worse who live in the community and comments on this one article are going to push them over the fence? Come on are you serious?

[flamesfan30]

checked out hotspot shield. when i tried to download it, it was blocked and listed under "Anonymizing Utilities"

[SuperJon]

The site is unblocked now so it's not a problem.

[Green Monkey]

checked out hotspot shield. when i tried to download it, it was blocked and listed under "Anonymizing Utilities"

I just looked it up on CNET and their link isn't blocked.
http://download.cnet.com/hotspot-shield/?tag=mncol

See if that works for you.

[flamesfan30]

news and advance is no longer blocked.

[JDUB]

Tonight should be interesting

[Hold My Own]

Should it ever

[Hold My Own]

Anyone with the local channel that could provide a few updates would be great

[LUconn]

Does anybody cringe anytime there's an "LU defender" posting on the N&A articles? Often times they're just as stupid and do as much damage as the other yokels.

[Cider Jim]

From the local fishwrap:

City says no on poll relocation
By Alicia Petska
Lynchburg City Council has announced that it will not relocate the Heritage Elementary School polling place. Council is still proceeding with a public hearing on the matter already scheduled for 7:30 p.m. tonight.

Attendance at that hearing is expected to be high.

Although it was not on the agenda, Mayor Joan Foster introduced the polling place issue at the start of City Council’s 5 p.m. work session today. She noted that the electoral board had been unable to agree on a recommendation and Liberty University, which made the original request for a move, has since withdrawn that request due to objections over the proposed alternative, Lynchburg First Church of the Nazarene on Wards Ferry Road.

http://www2.newsadvance.com/lna/news/lo ... 730/24388/

[FlameNForest]

Oh Lord.

[ToTheLeft]

Sparky is very influential!

[ALUmnus]

I'm kinda wondering who thought that was a good idea. The school has enough trouble with its image locally, that doesn't help.

[FlameNForest]

When you think about though, even though Liberty brought Sparky to the meeting, City Council brought Caesar Johnson, so I guess it's a wash.

[Hold My Own]

Looks like we know what conan o'brien is doing with his time off.


That front row makes me laugh every time I look at it.

[Cider Jim]

Careful there, HMO, if you're referring to the guy in the front row, he's an English major, a published poet, and an Air Force veteran.

[olldflame]

Cider, is the guy you're talking about the one in the middle? If it is, he can add "Conan O'Brien look-alike" to his already impressive resume.

[Cider Jim]

Ollflame, yea, I had him in class last semester. By the way, there's a nice article about the meeting last night on the LU website: http://www.liberty.edu/index.cfm?PID=18495&MID=16179

During Liberty University’s convocation on Monday, Feb. 22, Matthew Mihelic, president of the Student Government Association (SGA), invited students to join him at the Lynchburg City Council meeting on Feb. 23 to voice concerns at a public hearing about the possibility of moving the Ward III polling place, where students have turned out by the thousands to vote in previous elections...

“The first thing that I need from you is that I need you to come with me,” Mihelic said at Monday’s convocation. “If there are any of you that can make it, I need you to come … So we need to go there with the love of Christ and we need to show them that we care — let’s tell America that we care.”

Students responded and boarded buses to ride to City Hall for Tuesday’s meeting. Before the buses left, Mihelic paced in and out of a crowd that grew to about 200 students. Mihelic called them in for prayer, and then said, “You don’t want to be timid, but you don’t want to be overly political either. You want to go there in a spirit of love, just like we have in the past.”

[thepostman]

ok i am not in lynchburg and this does little to effect me...but seriously...sparky at a city counsel meeting?? It almost makes me want to side with the city for the first time in my life....ridiculous...

with that said, anybody know why cvcc hasn't been seriously thought about like its been mentioned on this thread before?