Leslie Hager-Smith has been a member of Town Council for Blacksburg, VA. since 2008, and served as Vice-Mayor from 2008-2010.

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Over-Occupancy & the I-Thou

        

For many years, “Neighborhood Protection” was a topic of political debate and public dialogue in Blacksburg. The term acutely expresses the threat that many fulltime residents have experienced as their valued neighborhoods have become home to a burgeoning student population, ever transient; sometimes uncivil; occasionally even criminal.

Yes, it’s true that tension between students and “townies” is a problem common to all college towns.  It’s equally true that students bring with them such countervailing qualities as talent, vitality and youthful good will. And, there can be no institutional surrogate for well-developed I-Thou relations among neighbors...Read more

"Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do." 

~ Wendell Berry

Let’s restore the Alexander Black House.  Learn more.

Council made an unusually difficult decision to approve a very large Kroger gas station on busy University City Boulevard. Leslie discusses her decision at town council meeting of 11/9/10.  View other videos.

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Photos: Laureen Blakemore & Mary Ann Johnson

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