Richmond has the third-slowest mail delivery rate of any United States metro area. But if you live here, you already know that. Rachel Westfall, who lives in Richmond’s Jackson Ward neighborhood, says her mail service has always been hit or miss. But since April,...
Last weekend, government officials, civil rights leaders, and people from all across Virginia joined together to celebrate Richmond's next step toward racial reconciliation. It took nearly 30 years, but Richmond has officially renamed the street once known simply as...
Neglected for decades, historic African-American cemeteries in Virginia are the focus of renewed restoration efforts, both on the state and federal levels. “Fifteen-hundred tires, and counting,” said Brian Palmer, referring to the illegally dumped trash in Richmond’s...
Back in March, many members of the Fulton and Varina communities were relieved to hear that the controversial East End Landfill (TEEL) would be shut down following a 5-0 vote by the Henrico County Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) to revoke the facility’s conditional use...
Most of the time, we fail to realize just how significant the events we are living have become. We grow complacent in echo-chambers of our own making and impose on ourselves a worldview which is filtered through our social networks and media preferences. From a...