Editor’s Note: This piece draws from firsthand reporting at the January 28 Hanover County Board of Supervisors meeting and includes the writer’s perspective as a participant-observer. UPDATE Jan 30 2:30: The sale will not proceed according to Jim Pattison Developments...
The Times-Dispatch is reporting a shortfall in the city budget is set to undermine some city services in the coming month. The Times-Dispatch is reporting a shortfall in the city budget is set to undermine some city services in the coming month....
$19 million dollars. $19 million dollars. With this amount of funding given to the Richmond Slave Trail Commission by state and local governments, Richmond might finally see a large scale project devoted to some of its darkest days. For over 30 years, until the end of the civil war, Shockoe Bottom held one of the nations worst slave prisons,...
There's a place and time in this world for everyone, unfortunately for some Virginia legislators, that the place is right but the time is all wrong. There's a place and time in this world for everyone, unfortunately for some Virginia legislators, that the place is right but the time is all wrong. Del. Bob Marshall is a classic case of this - if...
“I didn’t quite realize that I had made an actual album. “I didn’t quite realize that I had made an actual album. But the more that I listened to these songs consecutively the more I felt that a connective tissue was starting to form among the disparate pieces and eventually I came to a point where I couldn’t listen to one song without the...
Byron Marshall, Richmond City's former Chief Accounting Officer, is stepping down, but this isn't the first time he's left an office under peculiar circumstances. Byron Marshall, Richmond City's former Chief Accounting Officer, is stepping down, but this isn't the first time he's left an office under peculiar circumstances. A recent NBC 12 brief...
Edgar Allan Poe. The ghosts of Confederate soldiers. The collapsed train tunnel beneath Church Hill. The Hollywood Cemetery vampire. Edgar Allan Poe. The ghosts of Confederate soldiers. The collapsed train tunnel beneath Church Hill. The Hollywood Cemetery vampire. Richmond has been a haunted town for centuries, going all the way back to the...