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January 21, 2022

Jan 21

What's next? Yelp doing local restaurant reviews and reporting on local business news? This could be a trend worth keeping an eye on. Big national media players are watching the success of indie local news operations, often run by a single local journalist, and realizing they can…

Jan 12

"I’m very confident that the full city manager search process will involve significant public input...but there remains inherent uncertainty."

Jan 20

"It seems to me that the project could be considered both a recontextualization and a destruction of the Lee statue," says Prof. Thomas Brown.

Dec 25, 2021

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LAXART, a LA-based art non-profit, plans to hand over the Jackson statue to two of the country's most influential African-American artists.

Dec 19, 2021

Been working on a few longer projects, so sorry for the absence, but here are some local news items you might be interested in.

Dec 14, 2021

First former Police Chief RaShall Brackney, now former City Manager Tarron Richardson, are alleging racially motivated disparagement and retaliation.

Nov 24, 2021

Closing arguments in the trial will begin on Thursday, November 18 at 9 am. The plaintiffs' counsel will have 2.5 hours and the defendants, separately…

Nov 17, 2021

Charlottesville asked its first Black woman police chief to hold officers accountable. Then she was fired after officers complained. Now she's planning…

Nov 9, 2021

The best media coverage of the Sines v Kessler Trial, October 25 to November 23.

Oct 29, 2021

“It’s very important you DON’T continue inserting the (police) surveys into the public domain. This will only invite more questions…”

Oct 25, 2021

I am writing you as a long-time resident of this city who is still astonished, though no longer surprised, by the unbridged distance between white and…

Katherine McNamara

Oct 12, 2021

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