Remember when we were told the Downtown Mall “will not survive” because foot traffic was declining due to the presence of unhoused people on the mall? And so a “camping ban” was proposed and the city spent $1.2 million on an Ambassadors Program to “save” mall?
www.29news.com/2026/02/27/c...
The City is still using a controversial video license plate reading system from Metropolis Technology to collect parking fees at the Market Street and Water Street parking garages [See: tinyurl.com/4srwe973 ], but they’re now offering kiosk service as well.
www.charlottesville.gov/m/newsflash/...
This article has been written at the end of every February of my life.
27.02.2026 17:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Meanwhile...
www.clarionledger.com/story/news/l...
As Charlottesville prepares to select a design for a reimagined sculpture of Robert E. Lee, an already reimagined statue of Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson will now be in the Museum of Contemporary Art (Moca) in Los Angeles.
www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/02/24/l...
Yeah, video they posted has nothing to do with UTR.
27.02.2026 03:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Former Charlottesville Police Chief RaShall Brackney during her conformation hearing to be Jackson, Mississippi’s police chief: "I fired ten officers from the Charlottesville Police Department….for excessive force, domestic violence, sexual violence, theft..." www.clarionledger.com/videos/news/...
27.02.2026 02:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
You know this is not going to get better…..and we’ve got three years to go!
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
It’s amazing to me that we’re still using what we used for telegraph lines.
26.02.2026 18:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
“Dear Mom and Dad…”
Between 70,000 and 80,000 people were killed instantly, historians estimate, and thousands more would die in the coming months. Hiroshima was obliterated.
wapo.st/4swQBAT
Breaking news: A federal judge in Boston ruled that the Trump administration’s policy of deporting undocumented immigrants to countries where they are not citizens is unconstitutional.
25.02.2026 21:32 — 👍 308 🔁 98 💬 20 📌 7
That's one thing to call it.
Bill Gates: “…was a serious error in judgement.”
Larry Summers: “…was a major error in judgement."
Thomas Pritzker: “I exercised terrible judgment.”
Walking home from MarieBette this morning confirmed something I already knew: There is no safe place to cross Preston Avenue on foot. It's a four-lane abomination, in the middle of the city, that destroyed homes & businesses, & never should have been built.
25.02.2026 15:31 — 👍 39 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0
Bids are in for for the removal and replacement of the brick and granite pavers at the Downtown Mall Crossings: F.H. Paschen, S.N. Nielson & Associates: $1,364,015 / Oak Valley Landscape and Hardscape: $845,221 / Sagres Construction Corporation: $1,744,605
Work will begin 4/23 and end 6/12
The weirdest part was how spoke slower and slower as the speech went on while describing one grizzly act of violence after another. It had a horror movie vibe.
25.02.2026 05:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0!!!
25.02.2026 05:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0quick thoughts on the spanberger response. it was a good choice to pull a bob mcdonnell and have an audience so that you're delivering something and not just speaking to a camera. spanberger could use some practice on the teleprompter. that said, the speech is good and she is delivering it well.
25.02.2026 04:19 — 👍 3971 🔁 255 💬 70 📌 11“I was there in the room…and he unleashes a kind of poison into our politics that divides neighbor against neighbor….a kind of sickness being unleashed in the ether.” — Sen. Raphael Warnock
25.02.2026 04:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Spanberger serves up some normal.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpfl...
Reading this as I’m listening to the SOTU:
A new NPR investigation reveals the Justice Department withheld portions of the Epstein files that contain allegations that President Trump sexually abused a 13-year old.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Which president said this at the SOTU?: “Democrats are crazy….they are destroying our country!”
25.02.2026 03:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Trump demonizing immigrants and attacking the party that represents half the electorate…a winning formula!
25.02.2026 03:11 — 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1Really bothers him that one side is not standing up…
25.02.2026 02:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
dude was taking selfies of himself with everybody.
25.02.2026 02:32 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1God speed.
24.02.2026 20:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Three finalists have been selected to present their designs for the recasting of the melted down bronze fragments of Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee statue.
www.charlottesvilledtm.com/p/finalists-...
Who's booking concerts at John Paul Jones Arena these days? Nothing against these acts, but that's a lot of white dudes!
Luke Combs
Billy Strings
Journey
Mumford & Sons
"Weird Al" Yankovic
www.johnpauljonesarena.com/events/conce...
C-SPAN Denies Trump Used Pseudonym to Call in and Complain About Supreme Court share.google/lC22gfsJ3puZ... "...from central Virginia phone number"
22.02.2026 23:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Facebook post about Spencer Clem.
22.02.2026 18:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Indeed, yes, one of the many intrigues! And also an Albemarle County High School grad named Spencer Clem…
www.facebook.com/fkuttner/vid...
