Comments on: Morning Notes

By: Plunkitt of Clarendon Blvd

Plunkitt of Clarendon Blvd — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:27:07 +0000

Back in the 70′s Pennsylnania’s state run liquor stores managed to “lose” money.
True story.

By: alex1138

alex1138 — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:17:14 +0000

Thanks!

By: bob

bob — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:36:46 +0000

Yes… However, businesses (that don’t acquire liquor illegally, at the enormous risk of their very precious license) are required to obtain their liquor from the ABC. If you ever sit at the bar and order a drink, you’ll notice small price tag stickers on every bottle. The number on that bottle is ABC-specific to that licensed establishment. If they ever get inspected and have a bottle in stock without said sticker, they are in big trouble. I don’t know for sure, but I would be willing to bet the vast majority of VA’s ABC sales revenue is to commerical licensees, not private consumers.

By: John Fontain

John Fontain — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:04:40 +0000

You can still post links…

By: G Clifford Prout

G Clifford Prout — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:03:40 +0000

It’s a shame we can’t post images any more, otherwise I would have posted an image of a faux arts and crafts McMansion.

By: CW

CW — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:36:49 +0000

Thanks for the explanation. The 4th paragraph certainly explains a lot. That’s obviously pretty outrageous. It seems like there should have been an agreement tying the money to a specific end use and time frame. If I were donating to a collective cause, I’d want to see a signed, dated proposal before I kicked in. Sounds like in this case the funds were collected in a manner that put the cart before the horse, and now the wheels are spinning. I’d also bet that some (or many) of the parties involved now probably weren’t even around back when the whole thing started. Frustrating.

By: John Fontain

John Fontain — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:29:12 +0000

It’s not County owned or privately owned. It’s a not for profit entity managed by volunteers for the benefit of the community. Basically, the developer of Lyon Park donated a 99,000 square foot parcel to the neighborhood back in the 20′s to be used as a park for the neighborhood. On that parcel sits the Lyon Park Community Center.

The ‘steering committee’ who is currently leading the renovation efforts is asking the community’s residents to donate to the renovation. No infuriation necessary on your part, as this won’t be taxpayer dollars. It will all be from donations from ‘rich people.’

What is bothersome to me and to many in the neighborhood is the hijacking of a bathroom renovation intended to help the handicapped by those who see no problem in trying to build a Taj Mahal with other people’s money.

Much of the money that has been raised to date was collected years ago when the plan was a simple bathroom renovation. Imagine donating for one purpose only to see your money never get used for the intended purpose and sit unused for years and years while a ‘steering committee’ continually modifies their plans into grander and grander visions that have more than tripled the initial cost estimate.

All the while, this steering committee is spending tens of thousands of dollars on revision after revision of architects plans for a project that may prove too expensive to ever build.

By: Betting Man

Betting Man — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:25:53 +0000

Bring on the slots!

By: brif

brif — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:19:55 +0000

DC, NC, WV, and military bases are also sources for liquor in VA

By: CW

CW — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:16:16 +0000

John – for those of us who haven’t lived in the area forever or who generally don’t pay attention to rich neighborhood groups’ internal squabbles, can you give the Clif’s notes version of 1) who owns the thing and 2) who will be paying for it? Then I can determine the necessary level of outrage (zero if it’s the rich people paying for it, INFURIATION if taxpayer funds are used). Thanks.