There is a difference between strengthening the electric grid and simply stretching it farther. The proposed Valley Link transmission project has been marketed as a reliability improvement for Virginia’s electric system. But when one looks closely at the purpose and routing of the line, a different picture emerges. This is not primarily a project that […]
I caught myself hesitating over a filename at about 1:40 in the morning, somewhere between export dialogs and preflight checks, because 20260506-apxt-press-page-view-text-as-curves.pdf felt wrong in a way that was difficult to explain to anyone who has not spent an unhealthy amount of time thinking about records, archives, and institutional continuity. The file itself was created […]
Every few years, the frontier of “public record” expands in ways that make lawyers nervous and IT people shake their heads. Email did it in the 90s. Text messages did it in the 2000s. Slack channels and Teams chats did it more recently. And now we’ve arrived at the next step: artificial intelligence platforms. There […]
You want to know why the United States has no flag carrier? Why there’s no British Airways, no Air France, no Emirates draped in red, white, and blue? One reason. Deregulation. In 1978, Congress told the airlines they were free. Free to merge, free to fold, free to price-gouge a passenger flying to Wichita just […]
The facts are clear, the timeline is damning, and the legal exposure is severe. We’ve seen how a bad deal spiraled into a governance crisis, leaving a valuable public asset hanging in the balance, at the mercy of a federal bankruptcy court. Simply pointing fingers is not enough. The critical question now is: What must […]
The actions described in Part 4, the post-bankruptcy sublease consent and the legally questionable lease amendment, are alarming on their own. They show our County officials steering taxpayers into a legal minefield, seemingly indifferent to federal law. But these actions raise an even more fundamental and disturbing question: Who in our county government possessed the […]
At this point in the saga, any reasonable observer would expect the story to pause. With their contract partner at the center of a massive federal bankruptcy case, and with their own contract frozen by a de facto federal court order, the Appomattox County government had every reason and legal obligation to stop. Their hands […]
The direct and unfortunate answer is: It is almost certainly too late for the County to terminate the lease now and shield it from the Trustee. The moment Mr. Boone’s bankruptcy was filed, an Automatic Stay (like a forcefield), was erected around his assets, and this lease option is now considered one of them. The County’s […]
The plaintiff in 6:25-ap-06005, Matthew W. Cheney, is not just another creditor. He is the Acting United States Trustee, a federal official from the Department of Justice. His job is to be the “watchdog of the bankruptcy system,” and his office only intervenes in cases involving significant suspected fraud, dishonesty, or abuse of the system. This […]
There’s some confusing legal news about the deal for the old school, and I want to make it crystal clear. What sounds like good news is actually the worst-case scenario. The Analogy: The Town’s Community Farm Imagine a local farmer, “Mr. Smith,” who has a special deal to use some vacant county owned farmland. His […]