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One thing you can count on: whenever a story about the unhoused makes headlines, people get into the same crazy debate.
www.reddit.com/r/Charlottes...
This is fun!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAhm...
Half-time vibe was so bad that court side seats were empty and you could hear coughing in the arena. You really never know how things are going to end.
literally...this makes me sick to my stomach.
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57-year old man found dead inside a tent at the Freebridge encampment. www.charlottesville.gov/m/newsflash/...
Big winner here, again: CPC owner Mark Brown, who is already getting $1.8 million a year (with scheduled increases) from the City for the Water Street garage lease until 2044, at which time the City has an option to buy, which could cost as much as $95 million.
c-ville.com/woodard-prop...
“..willingness to pay in attention is really different than willingness to pay in dollars.” Turns out these currencies are incompatible.
www.niemanlab.org/2026/06/what...
City focusing on the positive here, but the report points out that family incomes have not kept up with the cost of living, and that student homelessness is higher than the state average, with the rate in Charlottesville jumping significantly in recent years.
www.charlottesville.gov/m/newsflash/...
It’s amazing to me that the dynamics I explored in this story right after UTR — dynamics that clearly inflamed the debate about removing our confederate statues —are absent from so many histories and accounts of the event: open.substack.com/pub/charlott...
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Jalen Brunson: “You’re allowed to think about the worst possible scenario. But you gotta go out there and do something about it.”
A good mantra for fighting fascism too.
