A 'Charlottesville' think piece gets it wrong, CPD investigating itself, and Skill Machines may be here to stay.

Good news: Charlottesville featured in the New York Times. Bad News: the story gets a lot wrong

Now we're at the point, I guess, where Charlottesville has become a backdrop that writers haphazardly apply to their think pieces. This NYT story annotated:

[No mention of the many others injured in the car attack.]

"Locally, a surge of activism helped install the city’s first Black female mayor, Nikuyah Walker, and changes have been instituted like the creation of a police civilian review board." [There is still no effective PCRB. See story below]

"At Market Street Park in downtown Charlottesville, where infamous scenes of neo-Nazis carrying tiki torches were broadcast throughout the world..." [That was at UVA.]

"Ms. Walker’s arrival in office was not only a historic first; she is also a progressive who replaced a more centrist mayor. Still, she and the City Council have been pushed by activists seeking to restructure the relationship with the local police department and to give more power to t…