The Community Benefits Television Auction is airing live tonight on WCTV from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. This Auction is a partnership between IU East’s SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise) group and Whitewater Community Television. The event will be broadcast on all three WCTV channels (11,20,21).

Thank you to our sponsors: Wayne Bank, Verizon Plus, Warm Glow, West End Bank, and G101.3/WKBV. These sponsors, and many other local and regional merchants, have donated items to tonight’s Auction, from gift certificates to sports memorabilia to collectible items and more. Overall there are too many unique gifts, and quality businesses, to list them all here. I encourage you to tune in tonight at 6 p.m. and see for yourself.

As a part of my work on the committees that are implementing the Comprehensive Plan that Richmond recently developed, I created a list (with some help from Mark) of some transportation goals that have a focus on alternative transportation (read: goals that don't celebrate car culture). Here's what I came up with, in no particular order:

1.Improve funding and infrastructure for public transportation, pursue newer public transportation services like the Smart Jitney (door-to-door route-deviation microbus service)  continue reading »