Editor’s note: As the holiday shopping season begins, we are encouraging Richmonders to support independent businesses, you can find a list of those in our ongoing “Support Local, Vote Local” 2025 Readers’ Poll, which highlights hundreds of local shops, restaurants,...
After 17 years, Harley Peterson has broken his silence about his run-in with the so-called Beltway Snipers who terrorized Virginia, Maryland and Washington in 2002 — and about the lasting effect the memory and ensuing survivor’s guilt had on him. After 27 years in the Navy, Harley Peterson couldn’t help but evaluate a passing car as he would an...
Virginia has some of the harshest eviction laws in the country, but the attention generated by a high-profile 2018 study has led to increased focus on finding ways to alleviate the problem, some of which are having a positive effect. Martin Wegbreit has known for a long time that Richmond has a problem with evictions, but a 2018 New York Times...
Richmond's Navy Hill neighborhood was demolished to make way for interstates. Can a hotly debated city redevelopment plan make it a community once again? Before it was the name of a downtown development plan, Navy Hill was the neighborhood Faithe Norrell called home. “I just remember it as a really warm community, where everyone wanted to...
In November 2019, Jen Soering and Elizabeth Haysom received parole after serving 30 years in state prison for the sensational murder of Haysom’s parents in 1985. Soering, a German national who had been given two life sentences, and Haysom, a Canadian who had been sentenced to 90 years, were turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
In 2019 Del. Chris Hurst introduced legislation to protect student journalists and their school advisers. That bill died in subcommittee, but Hurst hasn't given up; he introduced a new bill for the upcoming 2020 session. A former journalist turned delegate filed a bill for the upcoming General Assembly session that aims to ensure First Amendment...
Under the Dillon Rule, all decisions made by Virginia localities must be authorized by the General Assembly. Thus far, the GA has not allowed Richmond and other VA cities to remove Confederate monuments. But a new Democratic majority may change all that in 2020. Virginia has 110 Confederate monuments, many of which are housed in Richmond, the...
With sea level rise becoming a growing threat to Virginia's coastal communities, activists want to see greater action -- and more funding -- for programs intended to mitigate the effects of climate change. "Animals have three choices when habitat changes: they can move, adapt or die," said Yorktown Watermen’s Museum Director of Education Mike...
The ninth installment in a monthly series in which a hometown Richmonder who has spent over a decade abroad explores the many different neighborhoods accessible by GRTC bus lines to discover the ways transit connects us all. Northside: If one were to make a Northside bingo game, the word that would be at the very center of the board — the freebie...
In 2018, almost 20,000 people, most of them African American, were found guilty of marijuana possession in Virginia courts. The racial disparities where the state's marijuana convictions are concerned has led some state officials to consider decriminalizing and perhaps legalizing marijuana. Now that Democrats have won control of the General...
